Best Safety Practices for Nurses
Working in the nursing field is all about the best outcomes — and that includes your personal safety! Although travel nursing brings all sorts of new experiences, remembering the best safety practices for nurses ensures each assignment rocks! Even if you are a nurse with years of experience, it never hurts to recount the basics. Sometimes it’s that one moment you take for granted which results in a serious error or injury. Let’s avoid...
5 Things They Don’t Teach You in Nursing School!
For just about anyone starting out in a field they’ve trained for, the first day on the job can often feel foreign. Sure you’ve gone through all of the necessary coursework, but that doesn’t mean you actually know how to work as a registered nurse! These types of realizations and thoughts are quite common, and new nurses can feel like they’re a bit overwhelmed when the time comes to start your first assignment. Here we will discuss...
How to Recruit and Retain Millennials In Nursing
The nursing shortage is a frequently talked about subject in the healthcare industry, so it’s no surprise that many assume that the millennial generation could be the answer. Perhaps they could. As it stands, young adults who are part of the millennial generation are nearly twice as likely as baby boomers were to choose the nursing profession, according to a recent study. This curious bunch, known as the “why” generation, are actually...
Why Become an Emergency Room Nurse – Emergency Nurses Week!
Patients come into the emergency department with all kinds of injuries and illnesses, from gunshot wounds to heart attacks to mental health issues. Emergency nurses have to know how to do it all, making ER nursing one of the more challenging nursing specialties. October 8-17 is Emergency Nurses Appreciation Week 2017, so let’s take a moment to appreciate the hard work that goes into emergency nursing! Emergency nurses face many...
LPN Versus RN: What’s the Difference?
So, you want to be a nurse but you’re not sure which program to pursue? If you’re researching the difference between LPN versus RN, we’re here to help! Let’s start with the most important similarity first. Regardless if you decide to become a licensed practical nurse or a registered nurse, you can travel either way! Now that you know you can travel no matter which option you decide, let’s delve into the...
Pediatric Nursing Guide
When asked why they chose their career path, many nurses respond that they had a desire to help people. While this response is not unique to nursing, it is certainly one career that requires daily compassion and sacrifice. Regardless of their nursing specialty, nurses demonstrate care every single day. That said, pediatric nursing requires this compassion to be on display at all times. When working with children, pediatric nurses must...