You Know You’re a Nurse If…
Each profession comes along with it’s own outside of work thought processes and annoyances. You may find yourself pointing out technicalities on television shows, advertisements, articles, etc., that those outside your field of work would never be able to recognize and vice versa. Whether it’s avoiding inaccurate reenactments of medical scenarios or living by unbreakable work habit rules, you know you’re a nurse if… You own pens with...
Study: Nurse Education Level Correlates to Patient Mortality
Patricia Hickey, vice president of critical care, conducted a large-scale study from hospitals throughout the country and cardiovascular services at Boston Children’s Hospital, revealing that nurse education levels and experience quite significantly correlates with patient mortality. Another study was conducted at the Radboud University teaching hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with similar results as well. According to the...
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...
An Inside Look: How to Nail a Travel Nurse Job Phone Interview!
I recently had the opportunity to Skype with an experienced recruiter from Next Medical Staffing, Brian Plunkett, that has helped countless travel nurses, as well as allied health professionals, land assignments throughout the past decade in the healthcare recruitment field. We went over some very important travel nurse interview questions. I learned a lot of useful information about what it takes to seriously stand out and make a...
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...
When Death is Knocking: Caring for Patients in Their Final Moments
The basics. Caring for a dying patient can be very difficult and emotionally unsettling. You may not know what to say, how to act, or help them along at their end of their journey. As your patient reaches the end of their time, your duty as their nurse encompasses being present, providing comfort, and reassuring him or her with soothing words and actions that help maintain their comfort and dignity as he or she approaches death....