How many personalities do you take on at work?

From seven in the morning to seven in the evening, I’m roughly seven people.

What do you do when a patient dies?

What do you do over the long term to keep from being overwhelmed by grief? What does it mean when your grieving process is different from one patient to the next?

The best and worst states to be a psychiatric nurse in 2012

Where will you get paid more? Where are there jobs to be had? And where is the best standard of living? We narrow it down to two states where you should start your search.

Top 10 images of nurses we’re sick of seeing

Here at scrubsmag.com, we spend a LOT of time looking for images to go with our articles, which means we spend a LOT of time looking at pictures of nurses.

The organized nurse

Here are five savvy, stylish options for keeping things in their proper place.

The remedy for unemployment (or UNDERemployment?)

The remedy for unemployment (or UNDERemployment?)

Our Scrubsmag.com job board! Click in to see featured nursing jobs and to post your own resume!

Nurse's Station
The role of nurse practitioners in healthcare

The role of nurse practitioners in healthcare

Being mid-level providers, the world of medicine seems to have drawn a line between support and rejection of NPs. Today I was told by a physician that NPs are simply hired to do all the “scut-work” that physicians don’t want or like to do.

NCLEX practice exam XV

A client visits the clinic after the death of a parent. Which statement made by the client’s sister signifies abnormal grieving?…

5 ways to make a professional difference

Nurses are notorious for ineffective complaining. The only way to effect change is to become less reactive and more proactive. Here’s how to do it.

Break Room
The most unexpected ‘reward’ I’ve ever received for being a nurse

The most unexpected ‘reward’ I’ve ever received for being a nurse

On the plane, about an hour from the coast of Scotland, a flight attendant requested a doctor to the rear of the aircraft. We were seated directly in front of the rear restroom, and the only people who seemed to be headed toward the rear were lining up to use the facility….

A nurse in search of a doctor to marry

This blogger’s annoyed by nurses in search of their “MRS degree”. Are you?

Quiz: Whose vein is this??

It’s no secret. Nurses have a little something special for staring at people’s veins. Welcome to the quiz that matches your passion with another kind of ‘vain obsession’.

Caption Contest
Nurse Cartoons