Seasoned Nurse

Holiday hierarchy

“I’ve been here longer, so I get Christmas off!” Is that fair? What’s the best way to schedule nurses? Seniority? Lottery? One powerful charge nurse with an iron hand?

What NOT to do this holiday season

We sometimes forget to separate our personal lives from our work ones. This can make things uncomfortable when we “act like nurses” around civilians!

Changing careers within nursing

Dear Scrubs: How do you break free of the pigeonhole of one type of nursing? For example, I have spent nearly 20 years as a geriatric nurse and would like to take my career in a new direction, but I have found it increasingly difficult to do so.

6 things every male nurse needs to know to survive

How does a man survive in a woman’s world? Here are some down-and-dirty survival tips that every ‘male nurse’ needs to know in order to survive in the wilderness of women.

Top 10 signs your patient may be a drug seeker

How do you recognize someone who may be seeking narcotics inappropriately? Here’s a tongue-in-cheek list with some serious advice.

10 humorous ways I knew I was a nurse

There is the life ‘before nursing’ and then life as a nurse. Two very different worlds. Here are some of the ways I knew my life had changed when I became a nurse.

7 ways Hollywood goofs up medicine

‘As seen on TV’ does not apply to the real world that we nurses live in.

Crazy rituals

We love to torture ourselves. Somehow we always end up huddling to ruminate over what we just survived.

Top 10 reasons you KNOW you’re a nurse

From an intimate knowledge of microbiology to the fact that you’re checking out peoples’ veins in the supermarket lines…here are some dead giveaways that you’re ONE OF US.

Do “new nurses” scare you, too?

I’m finding more and more ‘newer’ nurses who think they know everything. And I cannot shake the feeling that the ‘newer’ nurses scare me just a little.

My first job fair

I was overwhelmed by the positive feedback and encouragement all the recruiters showed, not to mention all the cool gadgets and free pens (you know how we nurses like our pens)!

Playskool nursing??

Have you ever TRIED listening to a patient’s heart or lungs with the yellow plastic stethoscopes in isolation rooms?

Why nurses smoke

We know what nicotine does to us, yet many nurses continue puffing away. In my “top five reasons nurses are unhealthy” series I explore the excuses…and my responses!

A letter to my former self (the new nurse)

Don’t worry, we have all shared the same feeling: Being sure that sooner or later someone was gonna notice that you had no clue what you were doing!

Seasoned Nurse

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