Nursing Wit & Wisdom
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The Top 5 Reasons The Emergency Department Is A High Risk For Errors
If you have ever been to an Emergency Department, you know it can be busy, chaotic and highly emotional. As the most common entry point to the hospital, this is where patients and families come sick, scared, overwhelmed, frustrated and easily dissatisfied if things...
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...
3 Things To Know About Me
Sometimes it can seem like we are working on different planets. We seem to talk different languages. We seem to have different perspectives about what departments should be doing with our patient. People seem disconnected. Does my patient see and feel the...
Welcome Note from Audrey
Hello Nightingales and Friends! THANK YOU! for your time, your compassion, your brilliance and your caring! Do you know how much your presence and knowledge makes a difference in another person's life? Do you know you also influence each other?? I want nurses to...
Welcome back!
Dear Nightingales and Friends, After months of reconstructing, reviewing comments and reviews and re-formulating, Nursing Wit and Wisdom is back and I am so excited to share with you what I have got planned! I absolutely love writing posts on my Nursing Wit and Wisdom...
Clinical Challenge: Let’s Get Ready For That Job Interview!
"Climbing the ladder without conscious thought, experience and wisdom is only about power." Audrey Friedman RN, CLNC So you've had your eye on that new position, have you? It's exciting to think of a new challenge! New opportunities! New...
Thank You for a great job!
Hello Nightingales, 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...
No One Will Buy Me Dinner
Dear Nightingales and Friends, Are you having fun precepting other nurses? It doesn’t matter what unit you work on, there is a lot to teach when you are precepting new nurses. If you really sat down to think about it and write it all down, the topic list would be...
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...
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,...
Nurses and the Football Team
Do Nurses and a High School football team have anything in common? Is there anything we can learn from each other? I believe there is... and we can. It's about bullying. And finding ways to stop it. KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com |...
Happy Thanksgiving Nightingales!
Happy Thanksgiving Nightingales! Wishing you a warm and wonderful holidaywith those you hold most dear!And a most grateful Thank You!to all our Nightingales who are working on Thanksgiving.Thank you for sharing your holiday!