Every nurse knows they must give equal care to their patients, regardless of the patients’ status or situation. They also know they must regularly examine their own attitudes to recognize negative opinions and pe ...

Every new nurse dreads making a mistake. Any experienced nurse will tell you: It’s not “if” but “when.” Mistakes happen in every part of life. We miscalculate how much money is in our b ...

As you study for your NCLEX, it can be a good idea to use several resources to help you retain information. YouTube has become an effective way to review nursing content for your exam. A paper by Clifton and Mann stated, ...

Black Box Warnings: What Every Nurse Should Know Black Box Warnings: Just the words sound serious. And they are. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires a Black Box Warning (also called a black label warnin ...

You graduated from nursing school. The only hurdle between you and your new professional career was passing the National Clinical Licensure Examination (NCLEX). NCLEX has only one purpose: to evaluate the ability of ne ...

It’s inevitable. As a nurse, you will witness death. You will sit with a dying patient; you will support a grieving family. You’ll cry at times with them, as well as with co-workers and by yourself.One ...

One of the biggest challenges for a new nurse is to learn to navigate through a busy shift. There’s so much to do: patient assessments, passing medications, doing treatments, preparing for procedures and discha ...

You won’t find test items on humor when you sit for your NCLEX. And there probably wasn’t a chapter on telling jokes during your nursing education. Yet humor is one of a nurse’s best tools and an accept ...

Have you ever heard this: “Oh, so you’re just a nurse. Why didn’t you become a doctor?” Or: “Nurses only do what the doctors tell them.” Or “Nurses are really doctor assistants.& ...