Cleaning Your Stethoscope: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Healthcare professionals have several tools in their arsenal to examine patients and offer them the proper care. Stethoscopes are a classic instrument and the first purchase for most nurse professionals. Provided you take good care of it, a stethoscope is a long-lasting...
Five Tips Every New Nurse Should Know
Congratulations on landing your first job as a new nurse! A career as a nurse can be challenging with a lot of responsibility, daunting because of the unknown challenges that lay ahead, and rewarding when a patient has a great outcome. Are...
Emergency Room Nursing: Is it Right for You?
Do you love working in a high-paced, high demand environment? If so, you should consider being an Emergency Room (ER) nurse. Nurses in this field are front line healthcare professionals who have skills and education that far exceed the basics, and they...
Female Alopecia
While people typically associate hair loss with men from male pattern baldness, hair loss is also quite common in women. There are several reasons women can experience hair loss, from high stress levels to hormonal changes and medical conditions. As a nurse,...
Have a Gut Feeling? It’s Your Nursing Intuition
Have you ever had a gut feeling that something was not right after examining a patient? Finding out that your hunch was correct, despite no clinical basis for your gut feeling might be perplexing, but it is more common than you think....
What You Should Know About Vaping
As a practicing nurse, you must come across countless patients dealing with various health problems and emergencies. Most patients’ problems arise from factors out of their control. However, you will also encounter patients with habits leading to health issues. Vaping is a...
Handling Patient Complaints: A Guide for Nurses
Regardless of which service-based industry you work in and your role in the organization, you must know that it is impossible to always make everybody happy. As a nurse working in the healthcare industry, you may know this fact all too well....
Reasons Why You Should Consider Being a Nurse Midwife
The healthcare industry offers many potential career paths in various specializations. If you are interested in a career in this field, particularly in helping families and promoting women’s health awareness, you can consider becoming a nurse midwife. Not sure why it would...
Why Patient Education is so Important
As a healthcare professional, a nurse must know how to care for patients to ensure the best outcome is achieved. Nurses must have the knowledge and skills to generate a nursing diagnosis that covers a range of services, including patient assessment, medication...
The LPN and Their Role in Healthcare
If you are passionate about helping others and contributing to your community, you should consider a career in nursing. The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) project that an estimated 1.1 million additional nurses will...