Improving your mental health as a nurse can help you provide better support to patients. Unfortunately, nurses are neglecting their wellness because they are focused on taking care of others. Compassion fatigue is taking over the well-being of nurses. Neglecting mental health can lead to serious health conditions including: Obesity Heart disease Increased blood pressure […]
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Recent Posts
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Ways to Improve Your Mental Health
Janine Kelbach, BSN, RNC-OB | 21 April, 2020
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How to be a Professional Newbie
I’ve been traveling for over four years now and I still feel like a newbie for the first few weeks of every assignment. Below are some tips I have discovered for mastering being the newbie. Several of these are pretty obvious to “adulting”, but hopefully I’ll list some new ideas and maybe serve as a […]
Kearstyn Fox, RN | 14 April, 2020
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High Demand Specialties for Travel Nurses
Travel nursing can broaden your experience as a nurse and help you travel all around the United States. In order to get the most out of your career as a travel nurse, it’s smart to go into a high-demand specialty field. These are the five most in-demand fields for travel nursing in 2020! Intensive Care […]
Janine Kelbach, BSN, RNC-OB | 9 April, 2020
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A Lasting First Impression
Most people form a first impression in the first seven seconds upon meeting another individual. This mental snapshot may not be accurate, but once created, it can be difficult to change someone’s perspective, even if you get a second chance. First impressions are important for both our personal and professional life, but sometimes we don’t […]
Maureen Bonatch MSN, RN | 7 April, 2020
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Frequently Asked Questions About Travel Nursing
Travel nursing and staff nursing are vastly different for a number of reasons. As this career becomes increasingly popular, the curiosity of how travel nursing works is a common topic. Below are a few common questions I receive regularly. What is the purpose behind hospitals hiring travel nurses? Hospitals are short staffed and struggling to […]
Kearstyn Fox, RN | 2 April, 2020
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Change Can Be Beneficial
Healthcare managers and leaders are often tasked with implementing change. Although sometimes even changes that are intended to positively impact the organization, such as adding staff to assist with the workload, can be met with resistance. Often that’s because many of us, even those in a leadership role, are creatures of habit. The comfort of […]
Maureen Bonatch MSN, RN | 31 March, 2020
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Tips for Keeping Positive During the COVID-19 Outbreak
As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the country, a majority of us now find ourselves at home with our families. Everyone says they wish they could spend more time with their family, but you know what they say, be careful what you wish for! Jokes aside, the world is a scary and uncertain place right […]
Stacy Cyr | 26 March, 2020
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Tips for Remaining Calm During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Stay Calm! As a physical therapist and parent, I am being inundated with stressful news regarding COVID-19 and I find myself uncharacteristically anxious. Instead of exploring the negative, I am choosing to focus on the things I can control. What can I control? Well, I can control how I choose to respond to the current […]
Allison Stringer, MS, PT, FAAOMPT, CHA | 24 March, 2020
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Intro To Holistic Care & Alternative Therapies
Merriam Webster defines the words holistic and alternative as follows: Holistic – relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems, rather than with the of analysis, treatment of, or dissection into parts. Alternative – different from the usual or conventional. I’ve occasionally found these terms have negative connotations in some medical circles, so […]
Kearstyn Fox, RN | 19 March, 2020
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How Long Does it Take to Find a New Job?
When I was living on Maui and trying to move back to the mainland, I felt frustrated by just how slow the job search was going. I scoured the job boards almost every day, just waiting until my ‘perfect’ opportunity came along. I put in one application after another, just to hear nothing back, even […]
Alex Evans, PharmD | 17 March, 2020
