I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed for several nursing positions, and each experience gave me some serious food for thought about nurse job-seekers and what they endure when searching for a new job. If you’re in the job […]
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The notion of pivoting in your nursing career isn’t a new one, and that readiness to pivot can emerge from having a nimble mindset and a willingness to read the tea leaves of your career. Nurse, are you nimble? Being
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When we think of the business term ROI — return on investment — nursing and what nurses do on a day-to-day basis may not readily spring to mind. However, when you’re a nurse who wants to understand how to tell
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Nurses are astute clinicians often endowed with a keen helping of intuitive discernment. This ability to sense that something is wrong — or about to go wrong — has likely saved countless patients’ lives over centuries of nursing care. Whatever
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If you’re a nurse in the job market, resumes and cover letters are a central part of your search strategy, but it doesn’t end there — job interviews are something you need to contend with, too. And no matter how
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NursesÂ’ hearts and minds are like living libraries of patients’ stories. In the intimate container of trust created in the nurse-patient relationship, a tapestry of memories, confessions, and reflections are woven, and the nurse is privileged to be privy to
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When we reflect on nursing, we don’t always consider the concept of justice. We may think about patients, patient care, medications, interventions, and hospitals, but justice might seem like the purview of lawyers, legislators, activists, human service agencies, and non-profit
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Remember when you’d run home with your report card to show your parents how you did in school? Or were you the kid who hid it at the bottom of your bag so they wouldn’t see it? Well, your nursing
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Nursing has a hierarchy of power and experience like any other profession; it also has a hierarchy that sometimes feels akin to the laws of survival on the savanna or in the jungle the herd mentality at work. Have you
Lions, Gazelles, and Nurses The Herd Mentality at Work Read More »
Every nurse and healthcare professional has the opportunity to define career success in their own way. However, how many of us allow our nursing careers to be defined by someone else? How can we seize control of our careers and
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