Thinking about taking an assignment in Hawaii? First off, congratulations on getting an offer! I moved to Hawaii about a year after pharmacy school, and I still remember the offer letter I received with “Hilo, HI” in the address. I think I was more excited than when I received my acceptance letter for pharmacy school. […]
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Top Places to go on Your Assignment in Hawaii
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Bullying Doesn’t End in High School
You might think you’re done dealing with bullies once you graduate high school and enter the workforce. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Bullying can be a significant issue in the nursing workforce. Although nurses provide care to others, they are often the recipient of uncaring behavior from their peers, physicians, management or patients. According […]
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Employment Tips for a Traveling Clinician’s Significant Other
Those Travelling with Clinicians Can Find Employment Challenging Many nurses and allied health professionals want to travel with their spouses or significant others. Employment of the significant other can be a problem when they aren’t also traveling clinicians. The concerns are exacerbated by 13- to 26-week rotations as places hesitate to hire an employee with […]
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Lessons Learned As A Travel Nurse
Without a doubt, becoming a travel nurse has a strong learning curve and no guidebook! Everyone’s path is sure to be different, but in this article I’ll cover a few lessons I learned the hard way, and hopefully make your path a little easier. Be Confident in Yourself Since you will be in unfamiliar environments […]
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A Nurse’s Guide to Travel Nursing
Often times, nurses obtain their license and aim to start working as a registered nurse (RN) as soon as they can. Travel nursing is just another step in the process of becoming a well-rounded nurse, offering fun and valuable experiences along the way. Travel nurses typically don’t get to jump right in to nursing after […]
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Take Steps to Avoid Nursing Burnout
Most nurses are familiar with long work days, having to deal with stressful patient situations, short-staffing, and rotating shifts. Many may even assume that it’s part of the job. Some may feel as if their work contributions are measured by how busy they are, or as if admitting to exhaustion or feeling overwhelmed is a […]
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Top Places to Visit in North Florida
It’s no surprise that Florida is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country, with its beautiful sandy beaches, theme parks, fresh orange juice and seafood, and the Kennedy Space Center, just to name a few. Add in Florida’s great outdoors (my personal favorite part of Florida) and you’re really in for a […]
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How to Stay Current in Nursing
Whether it’s new technology impacting how nurses provide patient care, fluctuating methods of payment, or medications, changes in healthcare are inevitable. While many can become comfortable after working in a position for a few years and settle into how a routine for how tasks are always done, that’s not usually possible in nursing. Patient care […]
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Volunteering as a Nurse Overseas
To date, I’ve worked/volunteered in over 20 hospitals in five different countries. Whether different states, cities, hospital networks, or countries, it goes without saying that every hospital is different. For the sake of this article, I’m going to be writing about my experience working in rural/secluded/poorly funded hospitals overseas (a lot of my volunteer experience […]
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Developing an Awareness of Workplace Violence
Workplace violence isn’t part of a nurses job, yet, the frequency of occurrence has been increasing to the point that in 2018 the Joint Commission identified the risks of workplace violence to health care workers as a Sentinel Event. The incidents of violence may be even more than realized since much of the time acts […]