Rewards Vs. Challenges: Nursing Edition
If you were to ask what was the most challenging and rewarding career path, the answer would be a no-brainer: Nursing…
Nursing Resources
Celebrate National Nurses Week and Month 2023: Discounts and Free CEUs for Nurses
Each year, National Nurses week is celebrated from May 6–12. This is a week for hospitals, employers, and many other workplaces and individuals to celebrate their nurses…
Sexual Assault Awareness: The Nurse’s Role
Sexual violence has been noted to be a public health concern, with the traumatic effects being numerous. A sexual assault occurs every 68 seconds in the United States…
Nursing Notes: Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a massive problem in the United States. On any given day during a nursing shift, you might encounter someone who is in an abusive relationship…
Suicide in Nurses: A Cause for Alarm
With the strain and pressure our healthcare system has been under the past few years, nurses have serious cause for concern…
Nursing Plans & Goals
The start of a new year always brings newfound motivation with a heightened focus on New Year’s resolutions, nursing plans, and goal-setting for the future…
Nurses As Patients (or family members): A Look from the Other Side
Nurses are a special breed—generous, selfless, and strong—notorious for ignoring their physical and mental health. Some may joke that nurses make the “worst” patients…
Short-Staffed Nursing, High Workloads, and Long Hours
Nursing is one of the most challenging and rewarding career paths. But working as a nurse can be exhausting due to understaffing, long working hours, and being overworked…
Organ and Tissue Donation and Recovery
As of 2021, 169 million people in the United States have registered as donors. Not everyone who registers as a donor is able to donate. In fact, only 3 in 1,000 people die in a way that allows for deceased organ and tissue donation…
Nursing Programs: RN vs. LPN
Do you want to enter nursing but aren’t sure which program to pursue? Let’s look more closely at the licensed practical nurse (LPN) route and the registered nurse (RN) route. The reason for choosing one over the other will depend on you…