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How to Overcome Language Barriers in Patient Care
How Do You Say, “Do you speak English?” We have all seen it or done it – trying to communicate with someone who does not speak your language. Struggling through gestures, pointing, talking slowly, over enunciating, throwing in a random […]
Read moreKeeping Yourself Safe While Working in Healthcare
Put Your Mask on First Healthcare professionals are notorious for not being very good patients, but if you want a long career in healthcare, you need to take care of yourself. As it goes with airline safety, in order to […]
Read moreTop 5 Mistakes New Nurses Make
Being a new nurse is hard – hard enough that 1 in 5 newly licensed nurses quit within a year, according to one national study. Heavy patient loads, the stress of being faced with critical decisions daily, and the seemingly […]
Read moreStudent Loan Debt Relief Options for Healthcare Professionals
Healthcare professionals, like other Americans, graduate with high student debt loads. The facts are staggering: 81% of medical school graduates have education debt. $180,723 is the average loan balance for aspiring doctors. Approximately 70% of nurses graduate with student loan […]
Read moreHow to a Survive a Joint Commission Visit
If you have been in healthcare longer than a minute, you know the fear that strikes your heart when you hear the dreaded announcement that “Jay-Co” (JCAHO, or the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization) is on the premises. Healthcare […]
Read moreWhy I am a Psychiatric Nurse
The first time I tried to kill myself, I was 12. Twenty-three Benadryl just made me very sleepy. That is, until I had my stomach pumped. The second time I didn’t actually take the pills, but instead I held them […]
Read moreTaking the wrong job isn’t as bad as you think
There are many horror stories out there about what can happen to you when you take the wrong job. However, I can say unequivocally that I learned more from taking the wrong job than I ever did with what I […]
Read moreHow to Maintain a Professional Image in the Social Media Age
“Oh, no!” I said, with a concerned look on my face. “What’s wrong?” he asked. “A nurse I work with just friended me on Facebook. What do I do?” The worst fear I had as a first year resident was […]
Read moreHow to Protect Your Nursing License
A nurse gets a DUI. Another makes a medication error that claims the life of a patient. A student nurse snaps a photo of a patient and posts it on social media. A director of nursing for a nursing home […]
Read moreNew Grad RN Job Search, Reboot Recruiting Strategy, & Expanding Telemedicine
This blog post by Nacole Riccaboni offered some good tips for how newly graduated registered nurses can improve their resumes by emphasizing the experiences they have gained in training. Since you have no bedside nursing experience, your resume should be filled with nursing school experience […]
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