Online Nursing Degrees: Are They A Good Fit For You?

Drexel University Online

In today’s fast paced world, where there’s barely a minute to pick up coffee from the drive-thru, heading back to school for a degree in nursing seems impossible. However, for some time, you’ve had the urge to achieve a nursing certification, and begin a path towards becoming a CNA, LN or RN, but how does [...]

Nursing And Stress – 7 Tips To Managing Your Stressful Life

Nursing and Stress-Stressed out nurse

Nursing and stress seem to go together. Thinking back over my nursing career, I’ve thought of how stressful it has been. We (nurses) deal with stress on a continual basis day in and day out, at work and sometimes bringing that stress home. Not good for the work, life balance everyone seems to be talking [...]

Happy Nurses Week 2012 – About Florence Nightingale

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I thought it would be fun to share some interesting facts about the founder of “modern nursing”- Florence Nightingale. I recently completed a CE course on Home Health Care Nursing and the information below is from that course. And yes, Florence was inspirational in starting home healthcare in this country. Florence had many firsts in nursing but [...]

Health Information Technology is Health + Technology = Health 2.0

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You probably heard of Web 2.0 but have you heard of Health 2.0? Health and wellness 2.0 is technology and healthcare coming together to enhance the way healthcare is delivered to the consumer, health information technology. With all the advancements in technology today it great to see that healthcare is getting on board and coming [...]

My Favorite Nursing Blogs

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I love reading nursing blogs, it’s so inspiring to hear what other nurses are doing. So since alternative nursing careers is what I write about here I wanted to highlight nurses who are doing out of the box nursing jobs. I encourage you to connect with these nurses especially if you have an interest in [...]

Social Media and Nursing – 6 Tips for Nurses

Hippa

The Nerdy Nurse wrote a great post called 18 patient identifiers hippa defines as off limits. Head over to her site and read what those 18 identifiers are and see if you are using any of them. If you are, stop right now, it not only hurts the patient you are talking about it hurts [...]