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What to Do When Cancer Knocks at the Door
Cancer isn’t any other disease; it’s quite stressful for the person, and his/her family. Of course, treatments are there, but still it’s pretty much difficult to hold the tears in eyes, and say to your family that everything will be okay. I’ve met many cancer survivors, and believe me, meeting them was truly magical. These [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, Communication, Health, Nursing in a Different Land, STORIES
Letting Go
Nursing is a 24-hour care job. Yet, we nurses forget that our 1- hour shift ends when we clock out. We tend to review the past 12 hours over and over again. We do this while driving home, while in the shower, while eating dinner, etc. We cannot seem to let go, especially when we’ve [...]
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How to Earn Respect in the Nursing Profession
Respect is a heavy word. Most of us would like to be respected by people that we care about. In our nursing profession, we would also want to earn the respect of our peers, patients and other people that we work with. However, respect is not given, it is earned. It is not about age, [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, Career Insights, EMPLOYMENT, MISCELLANEOUS, Nurse-Patient Relationships, STORIES
Who Advocates For Nurses???
To all my fellow nurses out there, hope everything is well. It has been a very hectic week at work. I am sure you noticed the hospital patient census had been reaching its all time high nowadays. This goes the same for doctor’s offices, clinics, and other healthcare settings. As s matter of fact, normal [...]
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Daily Habits That Can Help a Nursing Professional Be Happy
It is not a joke being a nursing professional. Each day, there will be a stressful situation that can crop up. It is no wonder that people tend to see the nursing professionals as grumpy and irritable. Aside from that it can really make the nurses lean on negative thinking than positive ones. This results [...]
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Nurse-Patient Relationships, Personal Stories, STORIES
Happiness Comes in Different Forms
Piles of wrinkled paper gradually kept building up across the horizontal table while some of us were striving to think what to write and then type for our seatworks. Most of my life, I’ve encountered many hindrances along the way, if not all of them. Some of those challenges were difficult, while there were those [...]
