University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

MAY 1, 2025

How you communicate with yourself has a significant impact on how you feel about yourself and others. Positive self-talk has the power to retrain your brain and propel you to great heights. 1 Negative self-talk can bring you down, where you feel like giving up.

Self-Care

Daily Nurse

JULY 24, 2025

Virtual connected care is a great way to stay close to your patients and to provide greater one-on-one care. Practice Self-Care With technology in the picture or not, one of the best things you can do to prevent burnout and manage your stress is to take care of yourself. Self-care isn’t selfish.

Nursing Burnout

The Gypsy Nurse

DECEMBER 23, 2024

It’s like everyone else is in full holiday mode, and you’re trying to keep up with patient care while squeezing in some festive fun. Making Self-Care a Priority Taking care of yourself during the holidays is super important, especially when you’re juggling crazy work hours. But dont worry.

Travel Nursing

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

CRNAs provide leadership to the anesthesia team while ensuring patient safety and optimal care through advanced technical expertise and clinical judgment. These advanced practice nurses must combine technical expertise with compassionate patient care while maintaining calm under pressure.

Chief Nursing Officer

Relias

JULY 2, 2025

Caring for clients going through trauma or who have difficult living conditions can have adverse effects on staff’s mental health. In order to take care of your staff, it’s important to adopt a trauma-informed care approach within your own organization.

Self-Care

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

MARCH 7, 2025

Autism is a spectrum disorder that is characterized by challenges in social skills, speech, nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. Its ideal for behavior management and improved communication. 4 Speech and Language Therapy Speech and language therapy builds verbal, non-verbal and social communication.

Self-Care

Minority Nurse

APRIL 23, 2025

Microaggressions about someone’s race, ethnicity, or skills can seem like a small problem, but they’re harmful to nurses’ mental health. The term was first identified in the 1970s by Harvard psychiatrist Chester Pierce after seeing the negative impacts these types of actions had on the Black community.

Self-Care

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

APRIL 16, 2025

A public health nurse is critical in improving population health outcomes by educating communities and delivering care. In this leadership position , registered nurses make positive changes through policy reform and community building. The role of a public health nurse is to promote public wellness.

Job Outlook

Daily Nurse

JUNE 24, 2025

After all, you’ve already mastered patient care as a registered nurse—but now you’re stepping into a completely different role with new responsibilities, higher expectations, and the critical phase of applying classroom theory to real-world practice. This cognitive practice builds neural pathways that support actual performance.

Preceptors

Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Here are some ways nurses can take care of themselves, says this nurse educator. Nurses have a stressful job, between caring for patients, communicating with families, and being on their feet for several hours at a time. Self-care can enhance mental and physical health, ultimately leading to improved patient care.

Self-Care

Empowered Nurses

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The patient, 33-year-old Stephen Scantlebury, was under a Baker Act holda Florida law allowing for involuntary mental health examinationwhen he allegedly assaulted the nurse, causing severe facial injuries that may lead to the loss of both her eyes.

Self-Care

Relias

MAY 30, 2025

Further, about half of mental health professionals report moderate to high burnout or exhaustion from work-related stress. Burnout among human services and mental health professionals has been linked to outcomes that harm not only employees, but the organization as a whole. Seek their input at every step of the process.

Mental Health

American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Working in assisted living facilities requires providing compassionate care to individuals with diverse needs, backgrounds, and personalities. These challenges often stem from various factors, such as cognitive impairments, mental health issues, or personal circumstances that impact behavior.

Communication

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As a result, the brains varied methods of processing information become a part of self-identity. Neurodiversity has expanded to incorporate a wider group, including those who self-identify as neurodiverse. Typically, those with autism experience differences in thinking, movement, sensory processing, socialization and communication.

Self-Care

The Nursing Site

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Stubin, PhD, RN, assistant professor at Rutgers University – Camden (Camden, NJ), there is a “ mental health crisis in nursing. The academic rigors and pressure on students to care for sicker patients with more acute and chronic illness under the eye of their professors, creates a highly stressful environment.

Mental Health

Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

With work pressures looming, such as long hours, fast-paced environments, and caring for sick patients, many nurses realize that stress management is a crucial skill to develop to prevent overworking in a dynamic field. Communicating what hours you’re available for work. Saying no to extra shifts.

Self-Care

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Although occupational therapists (OTs) typically work with people with chronic physical and cognitive conditions, they also play a key role in acute care. 1 We outline the role of occupational therapy in acute care and how OTs in hospitals can contribute to better patient care and outcomes.

Self-Care

The Gypsy Nurse

JUNE 19, 2025

Creating a routine around communication—like a Sunday night FaceTime—can give you something to look forward to each week. Prioritize Self-Care Loneliness can be amplified when you’re physically or emotionally drained. When you take care of your body and mind, you’re better equipped to handle emotional ups and downs.

Travel Nursing

Relias

JULY 23, 2025

Understanding behavioral health compliance Demand for behavioral health services continues to grow across the United States. Over recent years, more adults have reported experiencing mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression. drugs, supplies, or health care services for Medicare or Medicaid patients).

Best Practices

The Nurse Break

MAY 12, 2025

Write an article for us A bit about you My name is Dan Mabon, and I am the CEO and Director of Nursing at Wyndham Clinic Private Hospital in Melbournean independent hospital specialising in mental health, alcohol and drug addiction, and day procedures. This led me to critical thinking and critical care.

Communication

Registered Nursing

JULY 29, 2025

With a remarkable 100% NCLEX pass rate and a 93.85% completion rate, the program emphasizes ethical leadership and compassionate care. Transfer partnerships: Students starting at community colleges can leverage seamless articulation agreements into four-year BSN tracks, guided by our RN to BSN Programs: What School is Right for You?

Leadership

Penn Nursing

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Fall 2024 Read on to find out how Penn Nursing faculty, alumni, and students who have found themselves as patients have emerged with new outlooks on nursing and health care. As I navigated treatment—chemotherapy, surgery, and countless scans—I found myself on the other side of the health care system.

Self-Care

The Nurse Break

MAY 26, 2025

John Palencia is a Registered Nurse who has written about his new grad perspective during his recent graduate year in Mental Health and why you should consider it! I work as a registered nurse, and I have recently completed my new graduate program in mental health. What has your mental health graduate year consisted of?

Mental Health

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Clinical nurses work in an environment that is high-stress by nature—making decisions that can impact patients’ lives— and need to take extra care to avoid the mental and physical condition known as nursing burnout. Nurse burnout is a state of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion caused by sustained work-related stressors.

Nursing Burnout

The Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 9, 2025

Take care of yourself. Take care of others around you. Take care of your heart! I’m struck by how perfectly the message illustrates the essence of school nursing and the challenges we face daily in our school communities. A mental health crisis that manifests in the classroom. It’s essential.

Self-Care

Registered Nursing

JULY 28, 2025

Essay or interview: Demonstrates communication skills, resilience, and commitment to patient safety. Prioritize sleep to protect patient safety and your mental health. A week-in-the-life graphic comparing study, clinical, and self-care blocks would be helpful for visual learners. Sources U.S.

Military

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) opens the door for students to take on roles such as family nurse practitioner (FNP), nurse educator , nurse executive , psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) and more. Nurse practitioners play an important role in improving the patient care experience.

Nursing Informatics

Nursing Review

APRIL 28, 2025

It aims to improve their access to inclusive, culturally safe primary care through training and accreditation for GPs, nurses and other health-care providers. They also have higher rates of suicidal thoughts , self-harm and suicide. Many of these health inequalities stem from experiences of discrimination and stigma.

Mental Health

American Nurse

JULY 2, 2025

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Medicaid

American Medical Compliance

MARCH 18, 2025

Providers learn to identify verbal and non-verbal signs of grief, use effective communication techniques, and offer both emotional and practical assistance. Understanding grief helps providers support patients, families, and colleagues during difficult times, improving compassionate care and fostering a supportive healthcare environment.

Mental Health

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

JANUARY 30, 2025

Autistic burnout can affect all areas of your life, including your physical, emotional, and mental well-being. 1 It can cause you to neglect your hygiene, distance yourself from others or lose your sense of self-belief. They come with mental health challenges. Depression and autistic burnout share many similarities.

Mental Health

The Nurse Break

MAY 12, 2025

This is a MUST read, especially if you’re interested in forensic nursing, sexual health nursing and correctional/mental health nursing. My nursing career to date spans over 25 years, across a diverse range of roles and practise settings including acute hospital, Detention Centres, Drug Court, Mental Health, Prison Health.

Nurse Practitioner

Registered Nursing

JULY 28, 2025

This ACEN-accredited program not only prepares students for the NCLEX-RN exam but also emphasizes the integration of technology in healthcare, leadership, and effective communication. Accredited by ACEN, this program equips students with the knowledge and skills for the NCLEX-RN exam, focusing on patient care, leadership, and communication.

LPN

The Gypsy Nurse

MAY 20, 2025

Mental Health Awareness Month May 2025 Life as a travel nurse or clinician is full of adventure, but it also comes with a unique set of stressors: adapting to new environments, navigating shifting schedules, and often being far from your support system. Over time, those few minutes compound into real mental wellness.

Travel Nursing

Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2025

Clinical rotations aren’t just a checkbox on the path to becoming a nurse practitioner—they’re the transformative experiences where students develop essential clinical skills, build critical thinking abilities, and learn to navigate the complexities of patient care in real clinical settings.

Preceptors

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

JUNE 18, 2025

Speech therapy is a key intervention for children that helps them to communicate with those around them and express their needs and frustrations. 1 Since children who are neurodivergent often struggle with communication, speech therapy can help support their self-expression. 4 What is Neurodiversity-Affirming Speech Therapy?

Mental Health

Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

For night-shift nurses, finding effective strategies to care for both their physical and mental health is essential for personal well-being and to provide quality patient care. These steps will improve the quality of sleep, leading to better physical and mental health.

Self-Care