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Boost Your Nursing Skills: 10 Empathy-Driven Patient Care Tips
Nov 04, 2024
Image from  Unsplash It takes a certain personality type to become a nurse. Some might even say it’s a calling; an impulsive yearning to help those in pain and need. Empathy. Compassion. Understanding. These are the pillars that make a good nurse. An article published a few years back in NursingStandard found that understanding personality types could assist nurses in how they perceive themselves and their colleagues in a workplace...
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Navigate Nursing Specialties: A Guide to Your Ideal Path
Nov 04, 2024
Image from Unsplash Nurses are the backbone of every healthcare institution; the clogs that keep the machine running. Without them, societies would cease to function. However, the long hours and taking care of unappreciative patients can come with burnout and low job satisfaction, resulting in many leaving the profession.  For others, it’s motivation to pivot into a specialized role while remaining in nursing. Choosing to specialize...
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8 Nursing Goals That Will Advance Your Future Career Path
Oct 23, 2024
Image from Pexels Nursing is more than just a job, which you perhaps knew that when you signed up for it. It’s a calling, a career path where you make a genuine difference in the lives of others every single day.   As meaningful as it is, nursing is rewarding. Nurses rake in an average of $94,207 annually, plus overtime compensation, which can add around $12,000 to their earnings. Beyond financial rewards, nursing offers a world of...
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7 Tips for Midcareer Nurses Planning on Switching Careers
Oct 23, 2024
Image from Pexels Nursing is not like a typical desk job where you clock in at nine and clock out at five. It’s rather a way of life.  The role of nurses extends beyond bandages, needles, and antibiotics. They are the ones who comfort the frightened child in the emergency room and educate patients about their health conditions. They also advocate for those who can’t advocate for themselves. They often have to skip their meals to hold...
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Strategies to Balance Nursing Careers and Education
Oct 01, 2024
Image by Tara Winstead via Pexels Did the stories of Florence Nightingale—the Lady with the Lamp—inspire you to become a nurse? Or were you always interested in looking after people? Regardless of what brought you here, one thing is certain: a career in nursing is incredibly rewarding.  As a nurse, you have the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives every day. Even the financial prospects aren’t bad. Yearly, registered...
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8 Ways Nurses Can Increase Their Annual Income
Sep 23, 2024
Image by Vadymvdrobot via Freepik The thing is, a career in nursing is not for the faint of heart. As a nurse, you’d agree to that—wouldn’t you?  In your role as a bedside nurse, you are on your feet for 12 hours a day—even more on some days. Just having enough time to drink water or use the restroom is a challenge. Even taking a real lunch break is a luxury you can’t afford. But none of that seems to matter as long as you’re making a...
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Transform Your Nursing Career: Tips to Maximize Income Potential
Sep 16, 2024
Image from Unsplash Nurses will always be in demand. No matter where you go, they’re the backbone of every medical institution, working diligently behind the scenes.  The nursing workforce makes up the bulk of the healthcare profession in the U.S. It is nearly four times the size of the physician workforce, according to the National Library of Medicine (NIH) . The history of nursing is an interesting one. Although historians can’t...
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Nursing Roles Beyond the Bedside: 6 Options to Consider
Sep 16, 2024
Image from Pexels  What floods your mind when you think of nursing? Hospital settings where professionals wearing scrubs care for patients in bed, right?  The role of nursing is associated with bedside care. But is it the only thing nursing has to offer?  While hospital setting and bedside care are central to the profession, nursing includes a wide range of roles that go beyond patient care. Those roles are just as rewarding as...
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Career Development for Nurses: How to Create a Roadmap for Success
Sep 16, 2024
Image by Wayne Fotografias via Pexels The pandemic laid bare the shortcomings of an already overburdened healthcare industry with labor shortages and failing infrastructure. Thankfully, the nursing sector has shown resilience.  Healthcare workers such as nurses realize there’s a world beyond hospital beds and sick patients. Career opportunities are becoming more accessible for newly qualified nurses. They are furthering their careers...
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The Future of Nursing is Advancing Rapidly
Apr 07, 2020
Image by pandpstock001 via Adobe Stock A lot has changed since nurses walked around hospitals in skirts and stockings. Fifty years ago, doctors treated nurses as assistants, and most administrators saw the role as an extension of a women's caregiving. Today, nursing makes up one of the largest workforce in healthcare. And as the American baby boomer population ages, will the nursing workforce. A variety of factors influence trends...
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