Your First Years
How to get a job
The current recession has made it more difficult for nurses — even experienced nurses — to find a job. But don’t give up! Industry experts say that with a little time and dedication, nursing jobs can be found.
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Speak more assertively as a nurse
Let’s face it: Standing up to colleagues, patients and their families isn’t always easy. Let these simple tips teach you how to speak with confidence.
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The great med-surg debate
Everyone’s got their opinion: should you start out in a specialty first?
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How do I deal with mandatory overtime?
Fifteen states have restrictions on mandatory overtime, so ask what’s allowed.
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Nursing Etiquette: Embarrassing situations
“One thing I never learned in school, and haven’t figured out as a nurse, is how to handle embarrassing situations in the clinical area. For example, if my patient “lets go of gas,” he and I both feel uncomfortable.”
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The Catch-22 of inexperience
Our skills lab really trains us well, but all the patients are plastic. If we can’t practice skills in the hospital as students, how are we supposed to learn?
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New nurses struggle to find jobs
Many new grads are having a hard time finding a job. Are today’s nursing schools promising too much?
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Dispelling the black-hole myth
Rumor has it that once you start nursing school, life as you know it, is over. It’s hard work, but it doesn’t have to be the black-hole everyone makes it out to be.
Read More...Continuing education debate
I have been inundated with many varying facets of my grand life plan that have posed interesting possibilities for me. And here I stand, three years out from graduation and facing one of the biggest decisions of my life. To return to school or not return to school…that is the burning question.
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Yes, I’m the student nurse…all in white
Student nurses must be identifiable, I understand. We need to stand out when there’s an emergency.
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?



