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My Nursing Story Lays Bare the Highlights and Lowlights of My Career

Nurse.com

When we tell our nursing story, where do we begin? These experiences and feelings are what separates nursing from other professions, and they are the foundation for my nursing story. These experiences and feelings are what separates nursing from other professions, and they are the foundation for my nursing story.

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Women’s History Month 2023: Telling Our (Nursing) Stories

Amercan Journal of Nursing

As nurses, we need to ensure that our work is made visible and that our contributions are recognized. We need to document nursing’s legacy of contributions. ” The post Women’s History Month 2023: Telling Our (Nursing) Stories appeared first on Off the Charts.

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Seeing Nurse Unseen and why we tell nursing stories

American Nurse

I’m going to work as a nurse,” I replied. He scanned my documents and said, “Taking jobs away from Americans, huh?” As if to punctuate this, he stamped my passport loudly and yelled, “NEXT.” Nurse Unseen, in a good way, made me reflect on the many identity intersections I traverse.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Stories From the Field – Meet Meg Jenkins!

The Relentless School Nurse

I am excited beyond belief to engage with my colleagues from all over the country and address legislative issues and work on practice documents and policies that impact us all. This weekend, I head to Washington DC as the NASN Directors for the winter conference.

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Never Let Your Circumstances Determine Your Destiny

Nurse.com

People who typically go unrecognized in nursing history — Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, James Derham, and Mary Eliza Mahoney — were prominent advocates for equality in nursing and in the suffrage movement. Mahoney, for instance, is documented as the first Black nurse to have earned a nursing degree.

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My Nursing Experience: How Our Twins Overcame the Odds

Nurse.com

We had a board documenting the length of the pregnancy, and we celebrated every single day. Our nurses would celebrate with us, creating weekly graduation certificates with supportive messages. Share your nurse story with us! But our supportive medical team also made this experience easier to navigate.

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COVID-19 Class of 2020: My Hospital Residency’s Twists and Turns

Nurse.com

On every new rotation we started over with new preceptors with no new details about COVID-19, just new requirements for what must be documented and when since each unit was different. Do I take vitals every hour or every four hours? Do I have to turn that patient every two hours? What if they are proned? Finding a Home.