Summer Lovin’: Dating for Travel Nurses
The weather’s been heating up and so have the opportunities to catch those spring flings and sizzlin’ summer romances. But, when you’re someone living the traveling nurse lifestyle, is dating even on your radar? Can dating while traveling really work? For singles that decide to head down that romantic road while on assignment, there’s a lot of things that you need to keep in mind, so you might want to pump...
10 Things that Drive Nurses NUTS
Throughout a long, tiring shift at the hospital, there’s just those days that everything little thing seems to make you want to climb up the walls. Under normal circumstances, these little things wouldn’t even make a person bat an eyelash—-but to a nurse running on fumes, it can be pretty darn intolerable. 10 Things that Drive Nurses NUTS 1. The medication that just won’t scan. On the outside when this happens,...
Safety Concerns for Nurses
Safety Concerns for Nurses A lot of nurse’s decisions of whether to remain in the nursing field are due to their many concerns with safety measures. These same nurses state how the safety concerns play a heavy influence on them because of high levels of stress rooting from long hours as well as overtime. The percentage of nurses that decide to remove themselves from the field has been building and building in current years. Mainly a...
The Weirdest Nursing Laws in the World
Healthcare is one of the most complicated fields when it comes to obeying laws because of the nature of the practice. But, I bet you didn’t know there’s a country that has a law against being too fat or that certain color scrubs are government mandated depending on your specialty. Here are a few silly nursing laws and rules you probably didn’t even know existed. It’s illegal to throw away mercury thermometers...
Easy Meal Ideas for Travel Nurses
Sometimes travel nurses don’t always have a lot of flexibility in their schedule, which means that sometimes being able to find time to eat healthy can be nearly impossible. Whether you are being called in earlier than expected or an emergency appears and you have to rush to the hospital, you will find yourself having to abruptly leave with barely a moments notice. There’s not always a whole lot of time to cook and picking...
Nurses Fight Against Bullying
On the outside, nursing appears to be a profession built on caring and compassion. And although, in a lot of ways, that’s true…there are still some “nurses that eat their young.” Bullying isn’t just annoying, it’s a form of psychological abuse and contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t just fade away after high school. Bullying can evolve into adulthood and take on new forms…even for...