Happy Nurses Are Healthy Nurses
Studies show that stress levels may highly be affected by the foods you eat—especially if you don’t have time to sit down and eat the proper daily recommendations of nutritious foods. Taking on stressful tasks as a travel nurse isn’t something out of the ordinary. Luckily, there are foods that can help with your stress levels at times you are feeling overwhelmed. Unfortunately, there are foods on the opposite end of the spectrum that...
Is Travel Nursing as a Single Parent Right for You?
Single parents consider careers in travel nursing for several reasons. A main reason is that travel RNs typically earn higher wages than nurses that don’t travel for work. Also, when a parent doesn’t have a significant other tying them down, the idea of traveling can be an exciting notion. As a single parent it can tough to bring home enough bacon without help from a second person so therefore earning more money is always...
Beat Jet-Lag with These Healthy Caffeine Alternatives
According to LiveScience’s caffeine info-graphic, as Americans we are the top consumers of coffee. Drinking caffeine has many benefits such as decreased risks of head and neck cancer, avid coffee drinkers have a slightly smaller likelihood of developing depression than those who avoid consumption, and most of all it boosts our mood and provides us with the energy we need to keep motivated throughout the day. As a traveling nurse...
Is it Appropriate for Nurses to Debate a Doctor’s Diagnosis?
Sometimes, differences in opinion can cause tensions in the workplace. In most professions, slight disagreements between colleagues is not a matter of life or death…but what if the matter at stake literally is? In the healthcare profession, the issue is knowing when it is necessary for a nurse to step in to voice what the best practice is for the patient. Often times, the nurse and doctor dynamic in our society leaves the...
Assaults On Nurses Increase As Healthcare Workplaces Need Better Reporting Methods
It should have been another regular night at the medical center for RN nurses. It should have been a peaceful night as patients relaxed and the nurses treated them with the best of care. Yet it turned into a night of violence. A night when a nurse who was removing a catheter was badly beaten into unconsciousness. On February 8th, 2014, a nurse working at a Brooklyn hospital was attacked by a 40-year-old male patient. The only thing...
How Will the 2020 BSN Requirement Affect Nurses?
Nursing professionals everywhere are no doubt already familiar with the many different requirements that they must meet in order to obtain the career of their dreams. For the nursing industry, continuing education isn’t something that only certain types of people do – a future in nursing depends on it. A recent initiative has begun that will make the qualifications required for becoming a nurse even more strict, especially...