Nursing Wit & Wisdom
A Place for Nurses to Inspire and Be Inspired!
Nursing Wit & Wisdom
A Place for Nurses to Inspire and Be Inspired!
Online Courses
Introducing: New Course
HEART TALK: Your Question, Your Journey.
At some time or another, we all have a BIG question on our hearts that is sometimes difficult to approach.
Heart Talk Cards are a fun way to use unexpected questions as opportunities to open a conversation in a direction you may not have considered!
Get Involved
Get connected to the Nursing world through our online courses, announcement emails, Facebook pages (for Nurses and for Preceptors), our monthly conferences, email mentoring, and much more! We’re excited to have you join our nursing community.
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Nursing Wit & Wisdom Blog
NEW BLOG POST: You Are An Inspired Nightingale!
Where did you find your inspiration for your nursing career? What was the spark that lead you to dedicate your life (well at least 12 hours a day, three days a week, five days a week, nights, weekends and holidays, or so…) to helping people during their darkest hours, their most difficult challenges and their most extraordinary joys?
Grab our FREE DOWNLOAD
Be A Prepared Patient: Three Quick Steps, which will help you or someone you love be prepared to tell your health story in emergency situations when you can’t tell your story yourself.
And let’s stay connected to stay up to date on updates and announcements on blog posts, tips, new courses and events.
Click To Learn More
Online Classes
Introducing: New Course
HEART TALK: Your Question, Your Journey.
At some time or another, we all have a BIG question on our hearts that is sometimes difficult to approach.
Heart Talk Cards are a fun way to use unexpected questions as opportunities to open a conversation in a direction you may not have considered!
Click Here To Start Course!
Get Involved
Get connected to the Nursing world through our online courses, announcement emails, Facebook pages (for Nurses and for Preceptors), our monthly conferences, email mentoring, and much more! We’re excited to have you join our nursing community.
Click To Learn More.
Nursing Wit & Wisdom Blog
NEW BLOG POST: You Are An Inspired Nightingale!
Where did you find your inspiration for your nursing career? What was the spark that lead you to dedicate your life (well at least 12 hours a day, three days a week, five days a week, nights, weekends and holidays, or so…) to helping people during their darkest hours, their most difficult challenges and their most extraordinary joys?
Grab our FREE DOWNLOAD!
Be A Prepared Patient: Three Quick Steps, which will help you or someone you love be prepared to tell your health story in emergency situations when you can’t tell your story yourself.
And let’s stay connected to stay up to date on updates and announcements on blog posts, tips, new courses and events.
Click To Learn More
About Audrey
Hello everyone! Welcome to Nursing Wit and Wisdom.
My name is Audrey Friedman. I am so pleased to be able to host this site for you!
I love to help nurses find ways to stay excited about their work and understand their unique position to influence others, so they can be inspired about the impact they can make on their patients, families, community and especially each other!
I want nurses to feel excited about their work! To feel empowered, connected and inspired when they make a difference in another person’s life.
The Florence Nightingale Award
The Nursing Wit and Wisdom project was nominated for a Nightingale award in 2015.
Nursing Wit & Wisdom
Inspire and Be Inspired, Nightingales!
You Are An Inspired Nightingale!
Where did you find your inspiration for your nursing career? What was the spark that lead you to dedicate your life to helping people during their darkest hours, their most difficult challenges and their most extraordinary joys?
What makes the perfect nursing job?
Dear Nightingales, I often hear these questions from nurses: "I don't know if I can do this job." and, "How do I know if I am in the right place?" Is there a perfect place for me?... At one time or another in your nursing career, you will ask yourself these questions and more. You will have days that inspire you. You will have days where you are mesmerized by the miracle that is the human body, the human spirit and the human condition. You will have days where even you will be amazed at...
Thank You for a great job!
Hello Nightingales and Friends, Do you remember the last time you were formally thanked for a job well done? How did it feel? Recognition feels great! It can boost your self-esteem and your confidence! It can reduce physical and emotional fatigue! It can motivate and decrease procrastination! And, it can be contagious! What if no one noticed what you did? How you saved the day? How you fixed a patient problem, responded quickly to a patient problem and prevented an emergency? How you...
3 Steps to IV Drips
Dear Nightingales and Friends, As a preceptor to new nurses and nurses new to our units, there is a lot to teach, isn't there? Regulations, Unit Based Information, Skills, Knowledge, People, Resources and basically, the most important one… where to find stuff. In orientation, I think the hardest part of teaching nurses is helping them learn to put all the pieces together. For my own creative purposes, I call each patient case a “pie”. Some have lots of slices: history, cause of admission,...
Like Stars in the Skies
Have you ever wondered how many ways there are to be a nurse? How many nursing specialties there are? How many places nurses can work. How many ways nurses can touch your heart. And how many ways you can touch ours. Over the hundreds of years of nursing history, so many things have changed... technology, instrumentation, science, medications, safety, procedures, charting, education, outreach, uniforms, roles, men, women and more. Nursing used to be one huge, enormous role encompassing...
What Do I Want?
Dear Nightingales and Friends, Happy 2015!! What were some of the things you are celebrating about what you did in 2014? I know there were some... Even if you think you didn't accomplish what you wanted... I know you accomplished some little steps. Celebrate those! Do you know what you want in 2015? Do you know why you want it? How you will achieve it? What it will mean to you? Any goal or item we wish to accomplish, attain or achieve has meaning to us in one.. or all... of four ways:...
Nursing
Wit and Wisdom
Truths, Humor, and Wisdom
from the Stethescope to the Bedside
by
Audrey Friedman RN, CLNC
“This book should be in the hands of every single nurse on the planet!”
Available Now on Amazon.com
Nursing
Wit and Wisdom
Truths, Humor, and Wisdom
from the Stethescope to the Bedside
by
Audrey Friedman RN, CLNC
“This book should be in the hands of every single nurse on the planet!”
Available Now on Amazon.com
Real Reviews
Hear from the Nightingales!
I have had the pleasure to read quite a few of Audrey’s work, and they have always been enjoyable, as well as educational. Don’t miss out on a chance to read such a witty, informative, educational and memorable journey with insight only a dedicated RN could share with us.
Audrey successfully completed Vickie Milazzo Institute’s CLNC® Certification Program on March 1, 2007, and is qualified to work with trial attorneys on medical-related cases; both for plaintiff and defense. She has completed the coursework outlined in the Core for Legal Nurse Consulting textbook. The Core’s study topics can be found at http://www.legalnurse.com/products/core.