NICU Nurse Interview: Part 1 – Caring for a NICU Baby
Nurse Haley rides along with nurse Stephan for a Carpool Consult interview to answer questions about her job as a NICU Nurse.
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NICU Nurse Interview: Part 1 – Caring for a NICU Baby
Nurse Haley rides along with nurse Stephan for a Carpool Consult interview to answer questions about her job as a NICU Nurse.
New Job Update! Plastic Surgery Nurse | Q&A
Priscilla Desiree answers questions about her job as a plastic surgery nurse.
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Night Shift Work Life Balance
This is how you do nightshift !!! Check out how Nurse Mo stays in shape, gets around 7 hours of rest during the day, and maintains a positive attitude.
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The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Nurses
These are some habits that every nurse needs a reminder to adopt in the workplace to make themselves and their work environment more efficient!
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GET READY WITH ME FOR WORK | OPERATING ROOM NURSE | Maddie Woods
OR nurse, Maddie Woods, Shares her routine for work.
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WHAT I EAT IN A WEEK AS A NURSE
Justine shares what a typical week of eating looks like for her while working different shifts as a nurse.
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Nursing Time Management Tips
Nurse Mendoza gives four personal tips to help nurses utilize their time sufficiently and efficiently.
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Registered Nurse: PROS and CONS of being a Travel RN
Are you a nursing student in nursing school, a new grad nurse, or a registered nurse that is considering travel nursing? There may be some things that you haven’t considered that you should know!
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GOING BACK TO NURSING AS A MOM (pumping at work, part time, etc)
Ashley Adkins, RN, gives advice about being a new mom while returning to work as a nurse and what its been like for her.
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Heparin vs Warfarin (Coumadin) Nursing Review Anticoagulant Differences
Nurse Sarah explains the difference between Heparin vs Warfarin. This educational video can be helpful to both students in nursing school and even RNs that may need a reminder of their differences.
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What a Nurse’s Schedule Looks Like | Labor & Delivery Nurse
Nurse Aggz discusses what her work schedule looks like in the L&D field.
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What Kind of Nurse Are You?
Nurse Williams talks about her background as a nurse and how she got to where she is.
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What Do ICU Nurses Do? Example Report of a [neuro] ICU Patient
Kati Kleber, BSN RN CCRN goes through report on 1 fictional ICU patient to give an example of a typical report.
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A Day In The Life Of A Pediatric Nurse | My Shift Routine
Nurse Erin speaks about her experience as a Pediatric Nurse.
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STORY TIME! My First CODE BLUE as a TRAVEL NURSE
Natalie shares her experience with her first code blue as a travel nurse and gives tips on how to handle code blue situations.
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Registered Nurse | Day Shift vs Night Shift
Yaya Zoe Discusses the Pros and Cons of Night and Day shift and her experiences.
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HOSPITAL NURSING VS. HOME CARE NURSING | WHICH ONE IS BETTER ?
Mercy Gono discusses aspects of hospital nursing versus home health nursing.
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Interviewing for Your Dream Job? Ask Yourself 7 These Questions!
Most interviewees are so nervous about the prospective employee liking them, that they forget they are interviewing the employers to
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TIPS FOR 12 HOUR SHIFTS!
12 hour shifts are a beast of their own! It is super important to make sure you are preparing yourself physically and emotionally for those long days. In this video, I talk about some of my top tips for 12 hour shifts!
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Before the Interview; Designing a Career Roadmap Based on Values
Congratulations are in Order! Congratulations! You made it through nursing school! The octopi-like tentacles of nursing school have loosened their
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NICU NURSE PRACTITIONER Q + A | Interview with my Mom
Abby Madonia has a Q&A with her mom, a nurse practitioner to answer viewers frequently asked questions about her job.
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Dealing with Anxiety | Nursing
Nurse Rhianna answers questions about Anxiety in the health care field and how she deals with it day to day.
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Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner
Nurse Ashley talks about her plans to start her Master’s of Science in Nursing program in August to become a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner.
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5 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE BECOMING A NURSE
Nurse Ashley shares advice for new nurses, and speaks about her personal experiences.
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Answering Your Questions: Nursing Advice
Nurse Alexis answers many common nursing questions, shares some advice, and talks about her experiences in nursing.
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Nurse: what I eat in a day!
What I eat in a day while working a 12 hour dayshift as an ICU nurse! I also included all of the nutritional info for my meals. These are healthy, macro friendly meals because I’m starting a cut to lean out for summer.
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12 HOUR NIGHT SHIFT | Day In The Life of a Nurse
Nurse Liz shows what it is like on a 12 hour night shift as a registered nurse. She show you what a typical night includes, and what a standard unit looks like. Nurse Liz also explain what my typical sleep schedule looks like when she’s on a night shift schedule. If you’ve ever wondered what nurses do all night, then this one is for you!
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How to Find a Vein When Starting Ivs or Drawing Blood Tips in the Arm
Learn how to find a vein using a tourniquet when drawing blood or starting an IV in the arm (antecubital AC area). This video is a teaching tutorial for nursing students, new nurses, or phlebotomists on how to find the cephalic, basilic, and medical cubical veins in the antecubital area of the arm.
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Why I LOVE being a Labor & Delivery Nurse
Nurse Aggz talks about why she loves being apart of a the life changing moments that people experience in labor in deliever and being able to help her patients.
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What It’s Like to Be A Brand New PEDIATRIC NURSE
Nurse Alexis talking about what her transition to pediatric nursing was like and how she’s liking her new job as an ER pediatric nurse.
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Trust Your Gut!
RN, Alisha, shares an experience she had during her career that displays the importance of trusting your gut!
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Why Listening Is So Important in Making a Huge Impact
RN, Diandra, shares a valuable experience she had about how listening impacted one of her patients.
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For the Love of the Job
By Krystina Ostermeyer – RN, BSN, CDE Let me tell you a story, fellow nurses. I was once a floor
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Résumé Tips for Healthcare Professionals We asked some of our resister nurse consultants to share their tips and tricks with us
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Do You Have One?
If you are like approximately two-thirds of nurses, you don’t have an advance directive. Surprising as that number is, even
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Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
When I first started my nursing career, I worked on a busy telemetry unit. I loved the hustle and bustle
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Yelling about Yelp (and other review sites)
These days it seems that everyone you do business with wants feedback about their services; healthcare is no exception. (Press
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The Angel in the Shed
My hat will forever be off to the pediatric nurse. I knew from my very first pediatric patient while in
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When the Nurse is the Patient…..
I literally hate writing in first person, so for this article I will become “Pam,” the seasoned nurse who has
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Me Too – Nurses and Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment has been a hot topic in the news the last couple of months. It is one that most
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The Voice of the Nurse
Based on True Events, May this Patient Rest in Peace I’m in the back corner of a large emergency department.
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Are You Aware of Workplace Depression?
Most all of our articles in this publication are about our experiences as a nurse working with our patients and/or
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Crossing the Boundary
Have you ever shared personal information about yourself with a patient or known of another nurse who got “too involved”
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Is Your Social Media Showing?
Even under the best of circumstances, social media can pose legal and ethical risks for professional nurses. Consider the three
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Facing Nurse Burn-Out: The Elephant in the Room
With the increase in workplace violence among healthcare workers, nursing shortages and staffing crises, now is the time we need
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The “Roto-Rooter” Test
As we all age, there seems to be more and more physically “that we need to keep an eye on
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Working with Law Enforcement
Several weeks ago news outlets aired video of a Salt Lake City police detective roughing up a nurse in the
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Being a Patient Advocate
In the wake of the Alex Wubbels, RN arrest, nurses everywhere are rallying together in her support. The common issue
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The Cat House
At this point you may say, “Well she finally lost it after all those years of nursing!” However, I want
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When an Assignment is Unsafe
Imagine that you are a new nurse, about six months out of school and working on a cardiac floor at
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It Doesn’t Get Easier
Dear Nurses, It doesn’t get easier to hold someone’s hand as they’re leaving this earth. It doesn’t get easier to
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Update on Ellen…”Life is worth fighting for!”
Many have asked how Ellen has been doing since her lung transplant at Johns Hopkins and the writing of my
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A Lesson in Humility
If you ever want to put your life in perspective, become a nurse. There’s something incredibly humbling about seeing people
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Fit for Duty, part 2
In my latest post, I gave you the definition of “fit for duty” and talked about the trend toward mandatory reporting
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Succeeding in the Time You Have Been Given
Nurses have “experiences” in their career that will stay with them long after their careers are complete. “Seasoned” nurses will
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Are You Fit for Duty?
While it may sound like a term out of the military, fitness for duty is an increasing matter of concern
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How the Nurse Shortage Will Affect Your Recruitment Process Part 1 of 10
This video article explains the current nurse recruitment landscape based on metrics pulled from various reliable sources. Subsequent videos will
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To Be a Nurse: Mortality, Sadness, and Other Things You Don’t See on TV
Nursing isn’t easy. It isn’t all pillow fluffing, injection giving and comforting people when they’re sick. It isn’t glamorous like
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Nursing: The Art of Making People Feel Better
Every shift isn’t going to be rewarding. Every patient isn’t going to be grateful, or even kind. Every boss isn’t
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The Angel in the Room
After multiple cups of coffee and the morning report over, I was walking toward my patient rooms to do a
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Abandonment: What It Is And Is Not
Over the years I have seen and heard many nurse leaders threaten to report nurses for patient abandonment. State boards
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Nursing 101: Back to Basics
There are two things you learn immediately upon entering nursing school: 1) You’ll never stop learning. 2) Always look at
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Ellen’s New Journey…..
In my last article, we talked about COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and how it had affected one of my
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Leading with Reflection
I was working as a hospice nurse and enjoying the freedom of being able to be out on the road
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End of Life
In my job as an Emergency Department nurse, the hardest thing isn’t always when we lose a patient. It’s when
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A Deceptively Simple Phrase
Every area of expertise has its own words and phrases with meanings specific to that field. Sometimes, however, a term
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The Joy of Nursing
Early in my nursing career, I cared for Betsy Mercer, a young mother of six and seven-year-old boys, who just
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A Journey With COPD
As stated in Springhouse patient teaching, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is the second leading cause of disability in the United
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Safe Staffing: Why Ratios Aren’t the Answer
As the nursing community continues its fight for safe staffing mandates, another concept is being brought to light: acuity-based staffing.
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Team Nursing-Elusive Myth or Attainable Goal?
Teamwork is an intricate process that can lead to positive outcomes in patient care, reduce the cost of healthcare, improve
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Law, Ethics & Conflict Resolution
Ethics may seem an unlikely topic for a column about legal aspects of nursing, but the two are inseparably intertwined.
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What Happens when Evidence Disappears?
I have a long list of potential topics to write on for this page; and generally, I like to start
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Code 5, Room 623!
If you work as a nurse in a hospital, you undoubtedly have a “code” in place for cardiopulmonary arrest. Even
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Questions? Ask me 3!
In a previous blog “Why Didn’t They Say it Like That? Health Literacy,” I gave a general overview of Health
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Suicide and Picking up on the Signs
There are stories galore that we, as nurses, can tell about our many experiences. Some of the saddest are the
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Are You Up-to-Date on Your Nursing Laws?
Given the pace of advances in medical knowledge and technology over the last fifty years, it can sometimes be hard
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Why Should I Care About Nursing Law and Where Does It Come from?
One of the purposes for the posts on this site is to give you important information that can impact, protect
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