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Feeling like you're complicit in the addiction problem... I've read so many articles and listened to so many podcasts dealing with the origins and consequences of the opiate addiction problem here in the US. Read More

Do Nurse Practitioners Assist In "Pulling the Plug"? I am aware that RNs only assist in "end of care" procedures which I have no problems with but for nurse practitioners,being advanced nurses, do they assist in ordering the patient's ventilator to be turned off? Read More

Accidentally told my coworker what I make, BIG ISSUES NOW I am relatively a new graduate (3 months prior experience) before landing a job at a SNF. I have only been there for a week and although I was told during the interview that I would be working nights, my manager wanted me on the 3-11 shift to learn admissions for a month. Read More

One reason for nursing burnout As of 3 PM today I am on vacation. I'm trying to concentrate on all things that are non-work related, but my head is still in the ICU. Read More

Pyxis error Last Thursday (7/28/16), I was escorted to HR, in which they showed me a print out report of my transactions from the Pyxis the day before. It showed I had removed a narcotic on a patient that wasn't my patient and not even in my dept... Read More

VIDEO: How to deal with poop as a new nurse. Often times, new nurses seem to have issues getting over the "poop" aspect of nursing. We've all been there. Here are some (funny) tips on how I got over it. Read More