Skilled Connections...the Heart of Nursing

While new nursing students often are very focused on their hands-on nursing skills, they don’t always realize that some of the most important skills as a nurse are not performed with their hands but with their hearts, minds and voices.
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Reality Shock: Nursing school vs the real world

Earlier this week, while working in the ED, I saw a doctor break open an ampule of lidocaine to give to a patient in preparation for a chest tube insertion. The doctor did not use a filtered needle or a "straw".
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Prepping for NCLEX - Don't let your anxiety kill you!

How you mentally prepare for the NCLEX will in large part determine how well you do: are you going in determined to calmly pass, secure in the knowledge you followed a sound course of study in preparation...

Nursing School and Starting a Family

I'm in my last semester of uni to become an RN and will be 30 when I graduate. I've put off starting a family for the years I've been at uni and now I'm trying to plan out when to start.
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Doubting myself because I want to be a nurse so I can "give back"

I am 27 years old. I take my final prereq this fall, and assuming I can pass the teas test I submit my application this fall to the nursing program. My back up plan is to go for a BS like my mother since my final prereq also finalizes my associates. My question is it as rewarding as I hope it is.
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9 Tips For Surviving Nurse Practioner School

With only one semester left in NP school, I thought it would be fitting to share some of the lessons that I learned as an NP student. The school is tough, but in the end it will be worth it. Hopefully these tips will make NP school a little less painful, easier to manage and something that one day you will look back, stand tall and be proud of your accomplishment.
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