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Never interrupt mom while she's on allnurses.com

LOL. I love this one. Do you have any rules in your household when you are online? Read More

Win CASH! New Year Nursing Caption Contest - $100

Win $100! Good afternoon nurses. Your mission is to provide a caption to the cartoon below. You may submit as many captions as you wish. You have 1 week to achieve your objective. After a week, we will choose eight finalists in which you will vote for your favorite. Read More

You Know You’re A *Pediatric* Nurse When…

For the past five years, I have had the opportunity to have a profession in Pediatric Nursing. People often say, “How can you work with sick little kids?” in response to me telling them I work in the Pediatric and Pediatric ICU settings as an RN. I often think that people assume Pediatric nursing is “just nursing” but on people of a smaller scale. I’ll never forget the day a Peds Surgeon told us, a group of Peds nurses, at an informational meeting, that “children are NOT just small adults.” They are not small adults, not anatomically, not physically, and most definitely not developmentally! Read More

People think I am stupid

I am a new nurse who just got off orientation a few weeks ago. I have worked at the hospital where I am for more than a year and was hired from a tech position to a nurse once I passed my boards. I thought everything would go smoothly once I got off orientation, but I've been wrong so far.

During orientation, I managed to make a lot of really stupid mistakes that I should have known better than to make, had numerous personality clashes with a couple of my preceptors, and got on my nurse educator's bad side. I know that people at work talk about me. I realize that I cannot control what other adults do, but these things have really put a beating on my self esteem. Any advice on how not to turn people off, how not to look stupid, and how to overcome a bad reputation? Read More

The Active Conscience: Yet Another Reason Why Nurses Rock

Society is filled with shady 'professionals' who have no problems engaging in lying, theft, deception, fraud, and cover-ups at the expense of the people whom they're supposed to help. Nurses should take pride in continuing to act upon their active consciences to do right by their patients. Without an active conscience, nothing much is stopping a person from doing really horrible things to humankind. Read More

Am I doing the right thing? New nurse getting butt kicked

I am a new male RN, BSN. I graduated in August of '12 and started at my job on a neurology/med-surg unit. I never really wanted to do med-surg, but many nurses told me that it is a great place to start because you can hone your time management skills, prioritization, and whatnot. Where do I ultimately want to end up? I have no clue. I don't know what the end game is. Read More

Surge in MDs / DOs, what happens to the NPs?

I read somewhere that med schools and residency programs are starting to open more seats to meet the physician shortage. I can't remember the source and so I have no idea how accurate that is. So, hypothetically if there were a surge in physicians how would that affect current and future NPs? Could a surge drastically change the NP profession? Read More

allnurses.com 2013 New Year Article Contest

2013 is upon us and we are eager to get the ball rolling. For the New Year Article Contest, 4 winners will be chosen with a total cash value of $600. We have selected 9 subjects for you to choose from. The articles can encompass daily work, past experience, education, study tips, etc. Read More

Shared Savings May Promote Care Coordination Entity Use

Use of shared savings could encourage individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid to enroll in state-designed care coordination entities (CCEs), according to a perspective piece published online Jan. 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More

Help... Peace corps, ABSN, d-e MSN, or MPH? which one first?

I am a recent college grad who has decided to return to school for nursing. But... I don't know which program makes the most sense. Eventually, I want to become a nurse practitioner focusing on maternal child health in low-resource areas (either in the US or Africa). Which "specialty area" should I go into? Pediatrics? Primary Care/Family? Neonatal? I have some experience working in a rural hospital in Kenya, and I found myself volunteering in the NICU during all of my free-time. I loved it. Although I am considering midwifery, I want to be qualified to work with sick babies AND healthy mothers/babies. Read More

Nurse Quirks

Have any of you found yourself more and more disgusted with random things or processes as you moved through your education and/or career? For instance, if you have kids or domesticated animals -- did you start hypersanitizing? Or, did you perhaps start hypersanitizing anyway? Did your social habits change? Did your personal habits change? Did your kitchen habits or bathroom habits change? Please, unwind my spinning head.... Read More