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Seeking Sponsors for 2018 Nurses Week Give Aways
National Nurses Week is celebrated annually May 6-12. For the past nine years TheNursingSiteBlog.com has sponsored give aways to honor our nurse readers. We have had some great sponsors in the past and I’m looking for new and old sponsors to join us in celebrating nurses in 2018. Sponsors Needed If you have: a book you’d like to share a set of scrubs you can donate a gift card towards a purchase of nurse related products a course discount to offer a product to make a nurse’s life easier candy, flowers, pens, vein finders, ETC. I would love to offer you some great FREE publicity in return for your generosity. …
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Nightingale Tribute for an Angel Who Leaves Us
A couple of weeks ago an angel left us. We were very blessed to know her and to call her our friend. At her memorial service I heard the Nightingale Tribute for the first time. A colleague gave a beautiful reading in tribute to our friend. RIP Arlene. I was surprised to have not heard of this before. I have attended far too many memorials for nurses who have been friends and colleagues. In researching the Nightingale Tribute I found it had been written by a nurse for the Kansas State Nurses Association in 2003. There is a whole program from which to pick and choose such as readings, white…
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FREE ANA Webinar: Surviving Bullying
The American Nurses Association is presenting a FREE live interactive webinar on Thursday, April 26, 2018 from 1-2:30PM ET, entitled How to Survive Bullies during Your Early Years as an RN According to the email, this webinar will help you to: Recognize the common causes of bullying among nurses Spot the tactics a bully uses – it is not all in your head! Set limits: Deciding for yourself what is acceptable and what is not Open a dialog with the bully: How to bring courage and calmness to the situation Confront the bully: The best way to call-out the behavior Know when and how to escalate your concerns to your…
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Stay Away from Stomach Virus!
I hope that none of you end up with the terrible stomach virus spreading across the country. Most everyone I know who has had it says they have never been so sick. Well I remember a flu in the 1950’s that was worse, but this was one of the worst things I’ve had since then.Read recently that baseball teams at Spring Training have been ravaged by outbreaks. And many nursing and residential care facilities are under quarantine to protect visitors as well as other residents. The back pain is debilitating and comes from nowhere. The stomach pains are best handled crawling into a fetal position and staying there for a…