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Enhancing Happiness Through Your Work
Stress in nursing is most likely attributed to the physical and emotional demands of patients and families, work hours, shift work, interpersonal relationships, and other pressures that are central to the work nurses do. Stress adversely affects the health, safety,...
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Celebrate Transplant Nurses Day Today
Around the world, patients rely on transplant nurses to help them navigate the complicated path to a transplant. To honor the work these nurses do, the International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) established Transplant Nurses Day to be held annually on the third...
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We All Had to Start Somewhere
Did you ever look back upon your career and reflect on those humble beginnings? As educators, we sometimes forget that it was not easy to aspire to the higher academic goals we have been so fortunate to have attained. When we counsel our students, we must not...
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Pursuing a Career in Public Policy: No Longer the Road Less Traveled in Nursing
A nursing career in public policy was considered unique decades ago. However, increasingly nurses have developed the skill and expertise needed to inform the policy-making process through their professional and voluntary endeavors. Nurses now serve in numerous...
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Minority Nurse Inventors: Improving Patient Care Through Unique Clinical Solutions
Ernesto Holguin, RN, BSN, CNN, dialysis clinical coordinator at Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, was saddened to see his elderly patient arrive for her dialysis appointment in 2003 with a foot infection caused by a diabetic ulcer. “Diabetes had...
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Adapting to Different Work Cultures
Our health care system today has made tremendous progress in providing care to individuals and families. Change is good, but as the health care industry rapidly responds to emerging trends, markets, and opportunities, how staff nurses respond to different kinds of...
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5 Non-Hospital Jobs to Consider
Nurses aren’t just meant for hospital work, as they have plenty of career options to choose from now. Spending time and money to prepare for nursing school opens a wide variety of opportunities, which can help you recover your investment even without the need of...
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Emotional Rescue: How to Protect Yourself from Stressful Work Experiences
The stress of nursing can take quite a toll on nurses emotionally and psychologically. Learn to recognize the signs, what to do, and when to seek help. Abbegail Eason, RN, remembers some of the most devastating moments she’s witnessed as a nurse: a teenage girl...
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How Nurses Can Make Better Financial Decisions
Few nurses have a solid grounding in personal finance about making decisions about their own financial future. Money management can be overwhelming. But you don’t need to learn the fine points of microeconomics – just the fiscal facts that pack a wallop on your...
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Adapting to Overnight Shifts: 5 Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Working overnight shifts is a big change for many nurses, but it’s also extremely common. With the 24-hour demands of the bustling, modern health care system, there’s a good chance you’ll have to work the night shift at some point in your career, especially when...
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