Kim has posted the latest version of CHANGE OF SHIFT. Check it out. There’s always a lot of nursing news and information. Thanks Kim for a great job as always!!!!
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Some Must Read Blog Posts for Nurses
Mother Jones RN over at Nurse Ratched’s Place has a very interesting blog post for this episode of Change of Shift. Check out those uniforms and nursing caps from some “old school nurses” as she relates our nursing predecessors to the challenges we face today as nurses. It’s a great blog post!! Be sure to read the linked blogs as well. Many thanks to Jana at Reality RN for asking me to guest blog!! (Staying When All You Want to Do is Quit.) I hope it’s a timely piece for those of you just entering the profession. It’s going to to take you about a year to get comfortable in…
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Nursing Scholarships and Nurses Caps
Kim at Emergiblog hosted the latest edition of Change of Shift this week. Here are two of my favorites from her findings throughout the nursing community. 101 Little Known Scholarships for Nurses from the Nursing Online Education Database. The second come from the NPR (National Public Radio) program All Things Considered. A recent “homework assignment” for the program was to find the best in obsolete skills. Fran Hill, who graduated from the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia, PA, talks about her skill of cap folding and how she recently revisited this skill and it reminded her of her early days as a nurse. Take a listen to this…