Monday, January 06, 2020

Who's Driving The Bus of Your Nursing Career?

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Plenty of people probably have opinions about what your nursing career should look like. However, the person behind the wheel of your nursin...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Behind the 8-Ball

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On June 8, 2019, an excellent article was published in the New York Times that clearly stated something I've been thinking about for qui...
Monday, December 02, 2019

Jump Aboard the Nurse Wellness Express

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Once upon a time, I was talking on the phone with a colleague who is not a nurse himself but who interacts with nurses on a regular basis in...
Monday, December 03, 2018

Your Nursing Career Database

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Throughout your career as a professional nurse and skilled healthcare provider, everything you create, publish, write, communicate, or other...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Are You Feeling Spooked by Nursing?

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Are you feeling spooked by your nursing career? It's Halloween week, and it seems natural to examine our careers for skeletons in the cl...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Nursing Jobs, Cost of Living, & Where to Hang Your Hat

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In my work as a career coach for nurses and healthcare professionals, I frequently witness those who work in nursing struggling with decisio...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Nurse, Throw Your Hat Over the Wall

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In your nursing career, have you ever wanted to get something done but never had the gumption to make the commitment and just do it? Well, t...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Are You a Nurse Job Hopper?

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Nurses leave jobs for innumerable reasons, and sometimes circumstances cause those of us in healthcare and nursing to only stay at a string ...
Monday, July 09, 2018

APRNs and 21st-Century American Healthcare

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Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) are an increasingly important fixture within the 21 st -century American healthcare system and ...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Nurses: Come Out of the Woodwork

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Although Nurses Week is long over, the public face of nursing still needs a regular shot in the arm so that the public knows what nurses act...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Non-Traditional Nursing Careers: Where There Is No Box

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Ask just about anyone what a nurse does and where a nurse works, and the general response is, " Oh, she works in a hospital ." Apr...
Monday, June 04, 2018

Nurses, the Best Selfie is Internal

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At a time in history when "selfies" are dominant in the depiction of our lives (and the potential measurement of our worth), the m...
Monday, May 07, 2018

Change, Personal Agency, and Wellness -- Celebrating Nurses Week 2018

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As Nurses Week begins, what does the idea of nurses and nursing conjure for the majority of people when they think about nurses? Obviously, ...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Nurses Take DC 2018: Nurses' Voices Matter

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On Thursday, April 26th, 2018, I had the distinct privilege and pleasure of speaking in front of the United States Capitol Building at the a...
Monday, April 02, 2018

Nurse Innovators and Trailblazers: An Embarrassment of Riches

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I recently spoke with a nurse career coaching client who's thoughtfully searching for what she should do next with her nursing career in...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Nurse Bullies: A Plague On Our House

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Sadly, there appears to be a desperate need for a continued conversation about bullying within the nursing profession. One would hope that t...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Escape Velocity

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There are many of us who desire change during the course of our nursing careers, but change can be hard to manifest for a variety of reasons...
Monday, March 05, 2018

A Soft Landing for New Nurses

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In speaking with large numbers of new nurses over the years, I consistently hear that novice nurses are not often given the guidance, nurtur...
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Monday, February 19, 2018

Common Questions About Nurse Entrepreneurship

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Nurse entrepreneurship is exploding in the 21st century, and many nurses ask me for advice about nursing-based business. So, let's dig i...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Nursing Trends and the ANA, Part 2 of 2

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One of the premier nursing organizations gathering information about nurses is the American Nurses Association (ANA). In my previous post ,...
Monday, February 05, 2018

Nursing Trends and the ANA -- Part 1 of 2

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In the November and December 2017 issues of American Nurse Today , the ANA revealed the results of a survey of almost 6,000 nurses. This n...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Hispanic Nurses On Fire

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I recently spent an incredibly inspiring and powerful weekend with 100 Latino nurse leaders who gathered in San Antonio, Texas for the inaug...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Nurses, Gallup, and Amplifying Your Voice

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Well folks, nurses did it again. According to the newly released Gallup poll , we're still the most trusted professionals in the United...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

The BSN Requirement -- A Legislative Sea Change

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Do you believe that nurses should be required by the government to have a BSN? Well, the tide is turning and a massive sea change is inexora...
Monday, October 09, 2017

Mass Shootings and Trauma -- the New Normal

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Mass shootings and similar tragic events are so frequent here in the United States that they appear to be the new normal. There were apparen...