Nursing Student Advice

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When you don’t “click” with your nursing instructor

There are those instructors that we love, but what do you do when you have an instructor that doesn’t understand you? What happens when you don’t “click”?

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5 fun facts about nursing students

Find out some fun facts that will prove to be food for thought the next time you set foot in a classroom or think about the fact that YOU are a nursing student!

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10 highly effective habits for online nursing school students

#3. Think cheap. The local thrift store is a great place to buy used office furniture or a comfortable chair. And you’re going to be doing a lot of sitting.

10 ways to spot a nursing student

10 ways to spot a nursing student

Here she comes…all dressed in white! No, not bride-zilla…worse. A Nursing Student! Me! And I find myself doing the same exact things that I thought were hilarious when my sister was in nursing school.

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Regrets of an experienced nurse…

Ask any experienced nurse if he or she has regrets, and they won’t be able to deny it— they have a bucket load.

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If I knew then what I know now: things I wish I’d known my first month on the job

Now that I’ve been a nurse for mrmph years, there are a few things that, looking back, I wish somebody had told me right off the bat.

5 surefire tips for IV cannulation success

5 surefire tips for IV cannulation success

Starting an IV is a skill like all others–practice makes perfect.

Why is nursing school so hard?

Why is nursing school so hard?

It’s simple. We’re not doing anyone a kindness by encouraging people who don’t have what it takes to stand and deliver good patient care to be in the profession.

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Survey shows 85 percent of nurses want Drug Handbook app

A new survey has found that 85 percent of nurses and nursing students would like to be able to use smartphones to access current drug information.

“Have you heard the one about the nurse who…?”

“Have you heard the one about the nurse who…?”

Stories about nurses are as old as the profession itself. Here, the truth and nothing but the truth about eight oft-told tales.

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Tips for the introverted nurse

Don’t panic! Even the nerdiest, most introverted person can make it as a nurse. If all else fails, work in neuroscience. We’re all like that.

How do I deal with a weak stomach?

How do I deal with a weak stomach?

As a nurse, you’re bound to see and smell things that will grow hair on your hairs. You’ll gaze upon frightening wounds, scads of sick people, blood and your fair share of incontinence. Some of these things may turn your stomach. There’s no exact solution to this problem, but here are a few tips that may help.

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Specialties: Where do you belong?

How do you figure out where you belong? And, more importantly, how do you figure out where you don’t?

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22 things I learned in my first year as an RN

#5. There is no “I” in nursing unless you are trying to win a spelling bee.
#6. The opposing shift is not your enemy (see #5)…

The quick and dirty guide for nurses caught in a conflict

The quick and dirty guide for nurses caught in a conflict

Use this fast, smart “guerrilla” tactic to de-escalate a confrontation with an irate patient, doctor or anyone else under the sun.