Coworkers
Nursing unions
I’ve blogged about how I felt that unions are only out for one thing, that is to increase the power of the union. Not the power of its members, the nurses, but the power of the union leaders. But…now I’m a union member.
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Nurse evaluations
One of the hard parts about being a nurse manager is evaluating another nurse’s performance. Looking another nurse in the eye, who is your co-worker and sometimes even friend, and telling them how well, or bad, they perform can be difficult.
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Does your nurse manager see you as confident?
Questioning yourself is normal. But if you compare yourself to your preceptor, who has several more years of experience, you’re only going to drive yourself crazy.
Read More...Shame on you
Nurses in Minnesota are striking, and I take issue with it. Throwing our hands up in the air and walking away is not how you solve problems in the work place. Walking away from the patients we have dedicated ourselves to is not the way to solve the problem, it only increases it.
Read More...Nurses still together after 30 years
How long have you worked with your co-workers? A year? Five years? Ten? This group of nurses has been together since their 1980 graduation.
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Communication and your nurse team
I have CNAs who are mad at nurses and do not talk to them, I have nurses who are mad at other nurses and will not talk to them, and I have staff members who are mad at me and will not talk to me. It has become a little out of control.
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5 things a male nurse should never say to a female nurse
This is all fun and games until the ‘hair’ card is pulled – then it’s a no holds-barred war over why you think their hair looks bad?
Read More...Fewer nurses = more deaths
New research — by a group of orthopaedic surgeons — demonstrates that nursing care saves lives.
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Difficult coworker meditation
Drink a few sips of cool water as you drink in composure. Invite deep, calming breaths to flow through your body. Then say this prayer.
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10 questions I’d love to ask SOME MDs…
If only. If only we could ask stuff like, “how much money do you really make?”
Read More...Manager/counselor
In the day of a manager not only do we have to be the one to make staff, patients and visitors happy, but we have to be there to comfort our staff when times are tough.
Read More...Scrubs Magazine
Work rage
Have you ever been in a hostile workplace situation? Or just a really frustrating one? Enough to make you open the emergency chute?
Rebekah Child
Nursing school finals frustration
Student nurses are frazzled and panicking right now. You’ve been there. Got any advice for us?
Ani Burr
Stranger in a strange land
Male nurses are almost not existent in the clinics. Other than the MDs, I am the only guy on the floor.
Rob Cameron
The nursing “trade”
Is nursing considered a career or a trade? I am not just a skilled craftsman, I am an educated professional.
Sean Dent
A doctor in nursing uniform?
I love hearing about how the nurse practitioner is the “next best thing” in the medical profession. Is it?
Nicole Lehr
