How to Motivate Your Patients to Make Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Probably one of the hardest thing for any nurse is figuring out how to motivate patients to make healthier choices. Nurses show up to work with the be...
5 Mistakes Most New Graduate Nurses Make
New nurses are often terrified of making a mistake. They graduate nursing school, go through a nurse residency program or some other kind of orientati...
5 Tricks For Developing Rapport With Patients
Developing rapport with patients can be tricky. As a nurse, you do not want to get too close that you break an organizational policy on professional b...
Why It’s Important for Nurses to Have Some Alone Time
“Alone time! HA! What IS that?” Or… “Don’t you know that there’s no time for that!?! I’m a nurse!” Right on. I get it. Nurses travel in sp...
The 4 Best Business Tips… For Nurses!
Before you say to yourself, “This post is not for me- I have no desire to go into business-” Stop! Just because you do not see yourself as...
3 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Deciding on a Nursing Specialty
As nursing students journey through nursing school, they begin to think about the nursing specialty that they would like to enter into. Sadly, I conti...
5 Must-Read Nursing Books for Students
A few months ago, I had fun with a quick question on social media. I asked nurses to come up with a title for class they wished, but didn’t, hav...
3 Strategies for Working with a New Nurse
Working with a new nurse? While those of us who have been in nursing for some time know that we need new nurses to replenish the profession, sometimes...
Difficult Patient? How to Work with All Shapes & Sizes
I’ll be honest right up front. I do not even like the title of this blog post. The term ‘difficult’ carries negative baggage. Yet, a...
What I Would Have Done Differently in Nursing School
Nursing school can be a difficult time. For most nursing students, nursing school means studying for exams and turning in papers. There is a lot to le...
