5 Tips for the Male Nurse
We’ve all seen the movie “Meet the Parents” where poor son-in-law to be Greg is teased for being a male nurse. And while it may be funny to hear a joke from Robert DiNiro and his trademark frown, in the real world, the stereotypes about male nurses are just uncalled for. Many men shy away from the field of nursing because they fear discrimination or stereotyping against them. Just because nursing as a profession is geared more towards...
Is Correctional Nursing Right For You?
One nursing position that many healthcare professionals forget to consider is the position of a correctional nurse. While we’re often inclined to shy away from the correctional system, correctional nursing jobs are often in high demand, especially as the prison system grows larger and larger. Maybe you need a change of pace and discovered a correctional nursing job posting online or in the paper. Or, perhaps this is something you’ve...
How to Deal with Difficult Patients
As a nurse, you’ve all had one of those days. You know, one of those days where you have a patient that is just rude, demanding, or difficult. There are many reasons why a patient is being unpleasant whether it can be attributed to a mental condition, or they are simply an unpleasant person. So as a nurse, how are you really supposed to deal with difficult patients? It isn’t like nurses are allowed to fire or dismiss a patient like...
Violence Against Nurses, An Epidemic
Over the past decade, the amount of violence against nurses has more than doubled. When will we protect our nurses? We have spoken about workplace violence on this blog before, but today I want to focus specifically on patient-to-worker violence against nurses. The health care sector makes up just 9 percent of the overall U.S. workforce, but there are nearly just as many violent injuries as all other industries combined. Nearly 75...
Multicultural Nursing |Consider the Basics
America has been a place where people from all over the world come to create better lives, especially through health care. As a nurse, patients come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and orientations – all of them needing your help. With an increasingly diverse population, multicultural nursing is more important every day. Being able to respond to a patient’s cultural, informational, and linguistic needs can be all tall order...
Nurse Ethics Remain Stellar
According to a recent Gallup poll, the nursing profession came in at number one as the most ethical U.S. profession for the fifteenth straight year. In the survey, 84% of respondents rated nurses as high or very high when it comes to ethics and honesty. Nurse ethics continue to set the bar high for other professions and show just how important it is to have honest and competent nurses taking care of us. “For the 15th consecutive year...