I hope you have been enjoying Nurses Week. Have you had some of the free food and discounts we listed on Nurses Day? Please be sure to avail yourself of these. It helps to spread the awareness of nurses in your community and just might encourage someone to join our profession. The other thing is to remember always that as nurses we make a difference in someone’s life everyday! We may never know how or when with some of our patients or families, but there will be those who touch our hearts and leave a lasting impression. It’s easy to grumble that Nurses week means nothing and your employer gave…
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NURSES WEEK 2017 – May 10
Today as the Wednesday of Nurses Week, is School Nurses Day. School Nurses play a huge role in managing the health care of our children. They conduct eye and hearing tests, instruct teachers and other lay people how to handle situations when faced with students with conditions such as seizures, mental health challenges and diabetes. They oversee and instruct techs in administering medications during the school day and assessing for urgent needs. Unfortunately, more and more school districts are moving to use lay people as health clerks and having the minimum number of school nurses to meet the bare necessities of the school district. This has proven to has be…
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NURSES WEEK 2017 — May 9
Beth Boynton RN, MS has written a new book Medical Improv A New Way to Improve Communication! The book teaches the user to train others in an emerging skill using Improv to help educate patients as well as health care professionals. Beth is also the author of Successful Nurse Communication: Safe Care, Healthy Workplaces, & Rewarding Careers (F. A. Davis 2015). Beth blogs at Confident Voices in Healthcare, where you’ll find fabulous information and resources for nurses and a Code for 20% off when you purchase her Medical Improv book through 5/14/17. She has generously donated a copy for us to #GiveAway today. (THANKS BETH!!) Remember to comment here OR…
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NURSES WEEK 2017: STUDENT NURSES DAY MAY 8
Today, May 8, is National Student Nurses Day and we have a special guest post to help provide some useful financial tips for nursing students from an aspiring freelancer writer Lauren Davidson. *************************************** Today’s Give-Away is an autographed copy of my Amazon Best Selling book, The Everything New Nurse Book, Second Edition. And I’ll throw in a copy of the latest update to the book, The New Nurse Handbook. Remember to comment here or on the Facebook page. THEN you MUST email me your contact info to be entered in to the drawing. …
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NURSES WEEK 2017: MAY 7
Don’t forget… Register NOW for the FREE webinar from the American Nurses Association entitled A Nurse’s Guide to Preventing Compassion Fatigue, Moral Distress, and Burnout. Receive 1.9 CE and enjoy a great discussion. Deadline to register is Tuesday, May 9, and the webinar is scheduled for May 10. Nurse.com offers a Free Resource Guide. Check it out. I hope you’re enjoying Nurses Week. Hopefully you’re enjoying some of the freebies we posted yesterday. Today is Day 2 of Nurses Week and as a Sunday I hope you have the day off to relax and replenish; if not this week, hopefully next weekend. A book I’d like to recommend is The…