If you are graduating nursing school in 2021, it is important to focus on your future and take steps to set yourself apart. You have already faced incredible challenges head-on and, if you’ve made it this far, nothing can stop you. Keep reading to discover a few ways to set yourself apart from the rest. Landing your first job as a new nursing school graduate has never been without challenges. Embarking on a new career is overwhelming, and there is a lot to learn in your first weeks, months, and even years on the job. Now, in light of COVID-19, the struggles are even greater. Nursing school students missed out…
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How Should Nurses Handle Job Interview Questions About Stress
So how should nurses handle job interview questions about stress? If you are a nurse, you will already be well aware that you have one of the toughest jobs in the world. You have to provide much-needed care while communicating with a variety of other people, including doctors, healthcare professionals, patients and their families. In addition, you may have to deal with life and death situations on every shift. It is quite common for hiring managers to ask questions about stress during the job interview. How does stress affect you? How do you deal with it? The aim of this article is to explain how you can handle such questions…
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Sneak Peak at Nurses Week Gifts and Give Aways 2021
Nurses Week is celebrated in the US every year from May 6-12. Worldwide, the celebration varies but is sometime during those dates. May 6 is Nurses Day, and May 12 is the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. The Year of the Nurse and Midwife was set for 2020 in honor of the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. However, we all know how 2020 went! The American Nurses Association extended the Year of the Nurse and Midwife to 2021. Things are improving, but we’re not out of the woods yet from the COVID-19 pandemic. None the less we need to Celebrate Nursing! And take time for Self Care!…
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Nursing Informatics: The Best Work-From-Home Career for a Nurse
I have one of the best nursing careers in the world right now: I get to work from home with incredibly smart people, and my opinion is valued because I am a nurse. What do I do? I am an Informatics Nurse. I became an Informatics Nurse just over 10 years ago, at a time when this field was fairly new and few nurses had even heard of it. This past year the pandemic put new focus on health technology as telehealth, virus tracking, and health data exchanges took off. Now I am getting lots of questions from nurses curious about what Nursing Informatics is and what I do each…
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Fire Department Coffee is Delicious
I recently received some terrific coffee to review. I got two bean samples, the Original Medium Roast coffee and the Vanilla Bean Bourbon infused coffee from the Fire Department Coffee Company. This company was founded and owned by a Veteran turned firefighter and is run by firefighters. In fact they give back by donating 10% of the proceeds to their Foundation to help support first responders who have been injured (physically or mentally) or are facing serious health challenges. The samples of Fire Department Coffee that I received were seriously some of the best coffee I’ve had. Both have a wonderful aroma and deliver a very smooth experience without bitter…