Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Approximately 50,000 RNs worldwide hold a BCEN nursing specialty credential, with over 40,000 holding the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN). and worldwide who hold any of BCEN’s five nursing specialty credentials. Nurses may self-nominate or be nominated by a colleague, a supervisor, or their organization.

Military

Consult QD

AUGUST 11, 2023

Nurse Essentials · The Leadership Path: How to Decide if a Nursing Leader Position Is Right for You Most nurses enter the profession envisioning a career in patient care. But there is an array of impactful and fulfilling leadership roles, even for nurses who never considered leaving the bedside.

Leadership

American Nurse

JULY 21, 2023

How about the staff nurses? Sure, bedside nurses use cutting edge technology in patient care, but there has been a lag in innovations that will make the day-to-day work of staff nurses easier or more efficient. AI developers might want to chat with nurses to hear what’s useful for them.

Health Literacy

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A telehealth nurse may staff a patient advice line, perform care coordination functions, or help patients manage their medications and other aspects of their healthcare. Nursing triage can also often be performed very efficiently via phone or video.

Nurse Entrepreneurs

Diversity Nursing

JULY 10, 2023

Nurses at the forefront of healthcare continue to face challenges that change how we provide Nursing care to our patients. As the Nursing field continues to evolve, here are some of the top Nursing trends to watch in 2023 and for the years to come.

Travel Nursing

Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It is a profession that requires dedication, empathy, and a genuine passion for patient care. Nurses who find joy in helping patients, improving their health, and providing emotional support tend to be more satisfied in their roles. This teamwork not only improves patient care but also creates a sense of camaraderie and support.

Work-Life Balance

Nurse.com

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When you’re a nurse, every shift presents the possibility that an ethical dilemma will emerge. And these dilemmas run the gamut from whether a patient has been invited to participate in their own treatment plan to whether an end-of-life care plan respects a patient’s spirituality or personal preferences. What’s in the code?

Self-Care

American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2023

Steps in the right direction Bedside nursing work is one of those jobs that can’t be done remotely, so staff receive benefits from the unavoidable steps required for travel and the nature of the work itself. study reported that on average, staff nurses walk 4 to 5 miles in a 12-hour shift. A 2006 U.S.

Bedside nursing

Nurse Abnormalities

JULY 15, 2019

But I chose to become an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. I attributed much of my newfound strength to my profession and the culture of bedside nursing. My career as an ICU nurse taught me how to advocate for patients, and consequently, it forced me to learn to be an advocate for myself as well.

Nurse Practitioner

Scrubs

AUGUST 18, 2023

nurses plan on quitting their jobs at the end of 2022, which would leave thousands of medical facilities and millions of patients without the care and support they need. We asked millions of nurses if they have ever thought about quitting and what made them decide to stay. That’s why I love nursing.

Retirement

Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As you care for your body, you should also be caring for your nursing career. Individualized Career Nutrition Optimal nutrition for your nursing career may be quite dissimilar from that of your friends or colleagues. Do you avoid processed foods and soda?

Nurse Entrepreneurs

Nurse Abnormalities

AUGUST 19, 2020

Prior to beginning NP school, I worked as a full time bedside nurse for three years, picking up loads of over time, in high acuity ICUs. Through NP school I worked mostly full-time until the very end, making my bedside experience about 7 years total. Nursing is HARD. With that being said, many physicians will accept you.

Bedside nursing

American Nurse

APRIL 8, 2023

Many of us chose nursing as a career because of a strong pull to take care of others, provide comfort, and leave each interaction better than when it started. We’re experts at providing holistic care at many levels—from placing an I.V. Somewhere along the way, though, nursing documentation has become burdensome.

Nursing Informatics

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Virtual nurses may work from behind computer screens, but their impact is felt throughout healthcare as their expertise is increasingly integrated into patient care and nursing workflows. Regardless of the technology, nurses play essential roles throughout telemedicine, usually conveying or using insights or information.

Chief Nursing Officer

Diversity Nursing

JANUARY 30, 2023

Nurse burnout is often brought on by everyday stressors like insufficient staffing, increased workload, high patient acuity, and even verbal or physical abuse from patients. As a result, Nurse burnout has been a significant factor in the number of Nurses leaving bedside Nursing or even the profession altogether.

Nursing Burnout

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Nurse burnout was studied for years before COVID-19, and the pandemic brought nurse burnout to the public eye. Burnout is associated with workload and lack of support that nurses experience in critical care areas such as ICUs (Buckley et al., Nurses leaving the bedside may result in units being left short staffed.

Nursing Burnout

Nurse Abnormalities

MAY 14, 2019

The reason I am starting to write more informative posts on nursing education vs. lifestyle posts is because I have noticed the amount of inaccurate information online regarding these topics. I want to clarify that I am a dual board certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

American Nurse

JULY 10, 2023

Unfortunately, these statistics haven’t wavered much and continue at a time when nurses are retiring and leaving the workforce for various reasons, including fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Some bedside nurses are exploring other opportunities within the profession, including leadership positions.

Leadership

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The hospital didn’t have a labor and delivery department, but they did have a women’s health department, and Hightower eventually began working there with gynecology oncology and breast oncology patients as an inpatient bedside nurse. “But I missed working with a kids,” they say.

Health Literacy

Nurse Abnormalities

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I worked for three years full-time as a bedside nurse in Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care prior to grad school, and continued working full-time until the final year of my dual Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nurse Specialist Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Relias

APRIL 17, 2024

The processes should be fair, transparent, consistent, and involve both self-assessment and peer review. They should also include methods for feedback, recognition, and rewards for the nurses who apply and achieve the clinical ladder levels. Nurses can advance from the first to second level within two years of hire.

Professional Development

American Nurse

APRIL 2, 2024

Takeaways Direct care nurses serve as significant teachers and role models for nursing students in the clinical setting. Building critical thinking skills is one of the most important outcomes in the clinical setting for nursing students.

Preceptors

Nursing Uncensored

MARCH 9, 2021

I am undiagnosed, or rather self-diagnosed, with Attention Deficit Disorder. I’ve found ways to counter these problematic habits with more helpful ones to make me a more organized and effective bedside nurse. I always have such a fun time chatting with Jami. I hope to one day have a post-pandemic meeting in real life.

Self-Care

American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2024

Each of the nursing teams you’ll read about on the following pages found opportunities to collaborate, strategize, and implement successful projects and programs with their interprofessional teammates to enhance patient care and improve outcomes, engage nurses, and ensure a healthy work environment for everyone.

Mental Health

Empowered Nurses

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Among the healthcare professionals at the forefront of patient care, nurses play a pivotal role in addressing and mitigating the risks associated with medical errors. They can occur at any point along the continuum of care, from the initial assessment and diagnosis to treatment, monitoring, and follow-up.

Patient Advocacy

Amercan Journal of Nursing

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Image Brent Keane/via Pexels I have often heard health care professionals in various environments say, “If you’re nice to the nurses and doctors who take care of you, you’ll get better care.” As a bedside nurse myself, I understand the sentiment. First cautionary tale. So I pushed back.

Self-Care

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At Hackensack University Medical Center, a large, academic acute care hospital, which has received multiple Magnet® designations from the American Nurses Credential Center, the Night Council plays an essential role in the shared decision-making structure. J Nurses Prof Dev. 2013;29(6):316-20. doi:10.1097/nnd.0000000000000016

Self-Care

EDNurseasauras

AUGUST 10, 2021

My younger self, 19 years old when I started nursing school, would not have survived it today had I not taken the path I did. Aside from the usual AM care, PM care, pre-op prep, post-op care, back care, urinal and bedpan cleaning and meal delivering tasks I was sent to in-services meant for RN's, most of which were over my head.

LPN

Celayix

MAY 2, 2024

Shockingly, 60% of those who have experienced violence are bedside nurses. Almost every experienced nurse has a story about a patient or someone connected to a patient making aggressive or unwanted physical contact. To be clear, violence in healthcare is not just perpetrated against physicians.

Self-Care

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I highlighted these insights in this summary of findings from a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study, which used hermeneutics (interpretation of written or spoken language) to identify emerging themes of the lived experience of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses.

Mental Health

Nursing Uncensored

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Right now, nurses are leaving the bedside at the speed of light. We know it’s happening, but it’s much more difficult to tease apart all the reasons why and make bedside nurses want to stay. High level leadership has one perspective, nursing managers have another and lastly, bedside nurses have their own considerations.

Bedside nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

I have been a nurse for nearly 20 years and have learned there is more than one right way to do things. As long as you are providing safe patient care and achieving the same goal, do things how that facility wants you to do it. I try to just find common ground with them and be my happy, helpful self and usually win them over!! #3

Travel Nursing