• 4 Ways to Ensure You Are Drinking Enough Water

    By Jeff Bellinghausen, a health and fitness fanatic and founder of cnanursing.net, a resource for aspiring nurses.  You’re running from patient to patient, it’s a typical busy day on the ward. Suddenly, that little niggly headache pain comes across you. You take a quick glance at the clock and it’s still two hours until your shift is complete. It’s going to be a loooong two hours. Google Images Sound familiar? It’s highly likely that the little niggle you feel is a direct result of not having taken enough water on board. The absolute fact is that nursing staff, many of whom juggle shift work (and busy shifts at that!), family…

  • Time to Kick Start Your Nursing Career?

    Are you truly HAPPY with your nursing job? If not, do you blame others for it? I know I have. That awful manager who never listens, or the CEO who pockets all the money and leaves us working so short-handed and with our licenses at risk never mind the patients. Grrrr I hated my job! I have spent years working in jobs I hated and blamed it on everyone else. The worst part of the jobs were that the most mundane parts felt like a trained monkey could do them. They were wasting my skills talents and abilities. And to top it off,  they wanted me do even MORE of…