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Today is September 15, 2021. Editor's Picks... 😷 Describe COVID; New Article Contest; COVID Changed His World; Be Honest With Patients; tired Of All The BS; Tears Flowing; and Feeling Discouraged

Describe Your COVID Experience In 1 Word

😷 Describe Your COVID Experience in One Word

Looking back at the past several months, I'm sure it is hard for you to believe you made it this far. And then to think... How much longer??? How would you describe your COVID experience?
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How can we turn the tide on COVID?

COVID: How Can Nurses Help Turn the Tide? | Article Contest

This was supposed to be a “Summer of Hope” as residents got vaccinated, lives were saved, and things returned to normal. Instead, it is now a “Fall of Gloom and Doom”. For this contest, we want you to share your ideas of how the surging COVID tide can be turned around.
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Are you brutally honest with your patients?

Hoping They're Not the Last Words

Life of a nurse can be harsh. Here's how my 16-hour shift went...
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COVID Changed His Whole World...

New Man of the House

A Husband and Dad battling COVID-19.
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Do you let the tears flow?

I'm Too Tired to Cry | Life of a Nurse

I have shed a lot of tears in the last 15 years working as a bedside nurse. Tears of joy, frustration, fear, devastation, sadness, happiness, heartache, love. Years of seeing people at their worst and best. Being there with patients and families on their most joyous and most devastating days. We can all relate to all these tears and how they’ve made us feel. I reflect on all the tears shed.
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Feeling Discouraged: Should I quit?

Preceptor Made Me Feel Like I Should Leave Nursing

Training in the NICU for a little over two months and it hasn’t gotten any better. I was really hopeful that it was going to be a better environment for me to work in. The preceptor is really nice but she can be very controlling. 
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Sick and Tired Of The BS: What can I do?

Just Feeling Done With Nursing

I WANT OUT of nursing. I’m an RN at a LTC/subacute facility. I work the subacute floor.  I love the patients, but I am sick and tired of the BS that comes along with everything.  We are SO short staffed and I do my best, but it’s nearly impossible. 
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