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Improving your mental health as a nurse can help you provide better support to patients. Unfortunately, nurses are neglecting their wellness because they are focused on taking care of others. Compassion fatigue is taking over the well-being of nurses....
I've been traveling for over four years now and I still feel like a newbie for the first few weeks of every assignment. Below are some tips I have discovered for mastering being the newbie. Several of these are pretty obvious to “adulting”, but hopefully I'll list some new ideas and maybe serve as a...
Travel nursing can broaden your experience as a nurse and help you travel all around the United States. In order to get the most out of your career as a travel nurse, it’s smart to go into a high-demand specialty field. These are the five most in-demand fields for travel nursing in 2020!...
Most people form a first impression in the first seven seconds upon meeting another individual. This mental snapshot may not be accurate, but once created, it can be difficult to change someone’s perspective, even if you get a second chance....
Travel nursing and staff nursing are vastly different for a number of reasons. As this career becomes increasingly popular, the curiosity of how travel nursing works is a common topic. Below are a few common questions I receive regularly....
Healthcare managers and leaders are often tasked with implementing change. Although sometimes even changes that are intended to positively impact the organization, such as adding staff to assist with the workload, can be met with resistance. Often that’s because many of us, even those in a leadershi...
As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the country, a majority of us now find ourselves at home with our families. Everyone says they wish they could spend more time with their family, but you know what they say, be careful what you wish for! Jokes aside, the world is a scary and uncertain place...
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads throughout the country, a growing number of states who do and do not participate in the NLC, have eased licensing restrictions, allowing clinicians from across the country to assist in defeating this pandemic....
As a physical therapist and parent, I am being inundated with stressful news regarding COVID-19 and I find myself uncharacteristically anxious. Instead of exploring the negative, I am choosing to focus on the things I can control. What can I control? Well, I can control how I choose to respond to th...
As nurses, we practice holistic care everyday. I'll use a simple example of a patient with lung disease who is a heavy smoker. We wouldn't be very good at our job if we offered medicines, but didn't suggest the patient cut back, or quit smoking altogether. This, by definition, is approaching the wel...