Holidays in the Hospital: Most Common Holiday Hazards
Every season, emergency rooms treat countless Americans for injuries sustained from the hazards of the holiday. People hurting themselves around Christmas time is about as traditional as singing carols, baking cookies, and buying presents. This makes sense considering the basic ingredients for disaster are totally afoot from November until January. Folks are going overboard with the eggnog. They’re rushing around to get...
Tips For Relaxing After a Nursing Shift
Picture it. You’ve just finished a 12-hour nursing shift. Your feet are killing you as you sit in traffic on your way home. You spend another half an hour on your feet while you stand in the shower and wash of the blood, sweat, and tears from another grueling shift. Finally, after taking a few minutes to grab a bite to eat do you get to finally sit down. At this point, your eyes should grow heavy, and the tension from the day should...
Pride Practice | Tips for Nurses Caring for Transgender Patients
Boys wear blue, and girls wear pink. Boys play with trucks, and girls play with dolls. Men wear cologne, and women wear perfume. But sometimes, they don’t. To be transgender means to identify more with the opposite gender of which you were born. Transgender people are often misunderstood, but that simple definition seems easy enough to understand, right? However, the discrimination transgender people face is often complex, and it...
Travel Nurse Reporting Instructions | How to Avoid Chaos!
So maybe you’re just getting into travel nursing or you’re always looking for actionable career tips — this is the right place for you! No matter your situation, one thing travel nurses new and old constantly deal with is receiving proper travel nurse reporting instructions. As if traveling to a new location, securing housing, and planning your commute weren’t stressful enough, not knowing exactly where to go on your first day just...
Helpful Ways to Practice Mindfulness in Nursing
Nursing can be a very stressful career. From long shifts to difficult patients, being a nurse certainly is no walk in the park. Because of its stressful and demanding nature, the nursing profession can often cause nurses to feel burnt out and defeated. So, what can these stressed-out nurses do to get back on their game? Well, one suggestion is to start practicing mindfulness in nursing. Mindfulness is an easy, effective technique that...
Why Do We Need More Men in Nursing? | An Exclusive Interview
What if people used your gender to describe your professional title? He was a male construction worker. She was a female hair stylist. He was a male grocery clerk. She was a female writer. It seems unnecessary, right? The need to use gender as an adjective to describe someone’s position in their career, in itself, reveals the lack of gender diversity and inclusion in certain professions, Frank Poliafico pointed out to me during an...