As a popular career path, nurse practitioners have been in the ascendant for some time now, and 2024 is no exception. Every time you turn around, it can seem like someone else you know is in NP school or considering […]
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When we think of a nurse, we absolutely and automatically think of a nurse who works in some capacity as a clinician. We may also think of a nurse executive or administrator, writer, informaticist, case manager, health and wellness coach,
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When you think about the current state of your nursing career, does it fit like an old glove, or has it begun to chafe, itch, irritate, or otherwise make you feel uncomfortable? Are there buttons missing? If a shoe metaphor
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Networking is standard among many professionals, but nurses aren’t generally natural or willing networkers. Many nurses go to work, serve their patients, collaborate with their colleagues, and even save lives along the way, and then they understandably want to go
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Your nursing career is yours to create, and every nurse’s path can be unique, innovative, and distinctive with proper care and attention. At the same time, all of your obligations and responsibilities might steer you away from your uniqueness and
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In these days of distressing news about nursing shortages, inadequate staffing, nurse burnout and compassion fatigue, moral injury, and the ongoing corporatization of healthcare, nurses and their healthcare colleagues continue to find their pathways to solace, healing, and perseverance despite
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Remember when being a nurse was all so fresh and novel? Remember when your scrubs felt too new and stiff, and your stethoscope seemed too shiny? Remember when your brain went blank, and you felt like you hadn’t learned a
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In day-to-day 21st-century life, suffering surrounds us. Whether it’s a burned-out nurse colleague, the homeless person sleeping on the subway grate, a grieving mother standing over the body of her lifeless child, or the stranger crying in the supermarket produce
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Recently, on LinkedIn, a heartfelt nurse colleague wrote that a nurse had posted something so painfully wrong-headed that she just had to respond. The nurse had written that nursing is not a career; it’s a calling and that any nurse
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Your nursing career has a unique narrative that propels it, and your resume is one place where it’s essential to get the story right if you want prospective employers to notice you or other opportunities to come to fruition. In
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