If you’ve ever dreamed of having a side gig providing in-home patient care, Amanda Truffen, a Registered Palliative Care Nurse at Carpenter Hospice, is already doing just that. Truffen used to work full-time in her hospice job, but now she […]
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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work with psychiatric patients? Surely, it’s not like many movies and television shows have portrayed. Not even close. To get more information about becoming a psychiatric nurse, we interviewed Jessica Martinez, RN,
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Have you ever wondered if you could have a side gig as a skincare blogger? Could you make money at it? Would you like it? Christina Diferdinando, DNP, RN-BC, has done just that. While she’s had an amazing career from
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The heart is a crucial part of our life and our world. There are songs about it, movies that focus on it—at least the love part, and without it, unlike other organs, we wouldn’t be able to survive. So, what’s
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If you want to earn an advanced practice degreesuch as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), among othersyou will need to get a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree. But there are many other
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Working in transplant programs can be challenging as life can move quite slowly for waiting patients and then suddenly speed up when an organ becomes available. But have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in pediatric
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Have you ever seen a problem in the nursing field at work or in nursing school and thought, “I know just what to do to fix that?” Latoya Smith did. She’s an RN who works with critically ill patients in
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Do you have the guts to be a gastroenterology nurse? All joking aside, this facet of the field is often overlooked because it may not be as exciting as, for example, working in an ED. But it truly helps to
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The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, held in Chicago, was known for many things: the World’s Fair that inspired the blockbuster book The Devil in the White City, where the first Ferris wheel premiered, and where the National League for Nursing
For this edition of A Day in the Life, we interviewed a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) to profile what these nurses do so you can decide if it’s a specialty for you. Keesha Duncan, DNP, CRNA, is the northeast regional
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