By Alice Benjamin, MSN, ACNS-BC, FNP-C As nurses, we're constantly thinking about prevention. We encourage our patients to schedule screenings, stay active, manage chronic...
Becoming a nurse is more than earning a degree—it’s becoming someone others look to for comfort, skill and steady reassurance. Nursing students spend their...
Your shift doesn't move in one direction. You reach up for supplies, bend down to check a chart, squat beside a bed, twist to...
If you’ve ever walked out of a shift feeling completely drained, questioning how you’re going to come back and do it all over again,...
Getting dressed for a shift should feel like something you get to do, not just something you have to do. When the fit is...
There is something different about reaching for a printed scrub top in the morning. Before the shift starts, before the badge goes on, you...
Tuesday of Nurses Week. Someone has taped a sign to the break room door. There are donuts on the counter and a coupon book...
You already know what nurses give. Twelve hours on their feet, an endless stream of patients, the kind of emotional labor that doesn't clock...
Walk into any hospital, clinic, or care setting and you’ll find nurses doing what we always do: showing up, holding it together, and managing...
Nurses Week runs May 6 through May 12 every year. And every year, a lot of nurses walk away with things they’ll never use:...
There’s a moment a lot of healthcare professionals know: you pull on your scrubs before a shift, glance in the mirror, and wish they...
