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A Nurse has been selected as the first nonphysician president of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM).
Read in its entirety: First Nurse to Lead New York Medical Association
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With my minimal PPEs, I was nervous entering the room on my first day on an unfamiliar unit in the hospital. All clinic nurses had been deployed to the hospital. No training, just show up and plugged in where the need was. I told the charge RN that I...
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My Dream Job as a New ICU NurseI have always known that I was meant to be an ICU nurse. Call it intuition, divine planning, or blind ambition. Since I was a child, my dream was to heal the sick, to protect those too weak to protect themselves, and to...
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The law requires that all meds be given within one hour before or after the medicines are due, and this often creates a lot of stress for busy nurses. For instance, the 8 a.m. meds can be started at 7 a.m., and the med pass, for however many patients...
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January - Newborn ICU Dream JobI was making cold hard cash. I had an awesome preceptor for orientation. I was signing my name with RN behind it, I was giving meds all by myself, I was a nurse, woo hoo, life couldn't be any better. Everything I had wo...
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This article was written by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Due to the topic and emotionally charged nature of the article, the member wanted the topic out in the open so nurses could discuss it. Because she is afraid of retribution if any of...
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Not a bad day today... started back per diem today.
6 cases, all in the same township. Not my usual zip codes though, so I did waste some time and scheduled visits akimbo, instead of in a line like I usually try to do.
8:00 am:6 pt's, one n...
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Florence Nightingale, the lady with the lamp, the best in her days, this generation and perhaps in the generation yet unborn. There might have been nurses before her days but none could conceptualise nursing during her time and even for the future as...
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Let’s go back to the beginning
All of that crying started right out of nursing school. That first year of nursing was hard, but those first few months were incredibly tough. Three months of orientation and I would cry and/or throw up before each ...
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I remember in Nursing School learning about Florence Nightingale’s role in the Crimean War - what she did to help establish safe sanitation practices, and that she was a tremendous advocate who worked tirelessly for her patients. However, it was not...
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How We Can Use the Nursing Process to Help Ourselves Survive (and Thrive?) in these Tumultuous Times
As a working nurse, I know I don’t need to go into the details of what’s happening for nurses right now. For nearly every nurse the past few yea...
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You're a nurse. It’s your job to spend all day talking to patients, asking them very personal questions that you’d rather not have to ask, and handling their feelings of worry, confusion, and anger. You have your own feelings to manage, plus all the ...
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I've been thinking a lot about getting older (and older) recently. For me, nursing was a second career. When I graduated from high school, I immediately started nursing school because that's what you did in the 70's. However, about 18 months later, I...
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"Nurse fired over social media post" seems to be a daily headline these days. Whether it's TikTok, Instagram, or another platform, posting some images and videos while on the job could have you in hot water. Not only might your job be in jeopardy, bu...
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Look around the floor any day, and you'll likely see one or two frantic nurses. At one time or another, we've all been that desperate nurse, or maybe we've been the deceptively outwardly calm but inwardly frantic nurse who's drowning.
Why do nur...
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Wyckoff Hospital is in Brooklyn, New York, and Amy has had a busy week after being named as one of the 100 Influential People in 2020 by Time Magazine. Her image graces the cover, representing the heroism of nurses and other frontline workers. Time c...
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Nursing has one of the most intense, unconventional schedules with 12-hour shifts, nights, weekends, and working regardless of weather conditions. On top of that, some nursing positions require the nurse to be on-call, so what does this mean exactly?...
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For the past few weeks my shift at work have been canceled due to the recent pandemic. A few days ago I was asked to work but unfortunately turned it down because we have a entire unit of Covid-19 patients. Heres the thing I have a toddler with as...
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Night Shift
Someone must do it. It has its perks. The slower pace (sometimes); increased autonomy, closer relationships with your colleagues, and no suits.
It also has its faults; left-over dayshift food, 8 am mandatory meetings, missing th...
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First, let me explain how karma worked its unfriendly magic. While working one day, my peers and I discussed how much time we had accrued in our "sick bank" and the limited ways in which we're allowed to access it. I commented, "the only way I will e...
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The concept of travel nursing began as a solution to provide additional nurses to areas/hospitals experiencing a nursing shortage. Over the years this has become a very popular option for those wanting to change locations and assignments regularly an...
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Setting the Stage - The Riskiest Cases
As a perioperative nurse who serves in a First Assist role on our high-risk cardiovascular surgery team at a top-tier institution, we often get patients who have been refused surgical intervention at other f...
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My fellow nurses, I have a question for you. Do you ever think that many of our jobs require so much, too much of our time that they just kind of take over your life? Many of us work over 60 to 70 hours a week or more. It leaves little time to do any...
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Texting with Florence Nightingale
Yo, Flo! Can u talk right now? (I like saying yo flo) ?
Talk? Do you mean text?
Yeah, I do mean text.
Yes. But why do you say talk instead of text?
IDK. I know we aren’t literally talking, but...
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After the cardiac arrest suffered by Demar Hamlin on Monday night, the NFL made the decision to cancel the Buffalo-Cincinnati game. In a statement Friday by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called the incident extraordinary and went on to state, "We sa...