5 Study Tips to Help You Rock Your Nursing Finals

5 Study Tips to Help You Rock Your Nursing Finals

by | Mar 11, 2018 | Coping with Stress, Inspirational, Nurses Matter, Nursing School, Personal Experience, Strategies for Success, Student Nurse, Studying, Test-Taking Strategies

With a couple of months to go until we reach the end of the spring semester, it is never too early to start planning on rocking your final exams! To help you reduce test anxiety and succeed on your final nursing exams, here are five study tips that are sure to help...
Nursing’s Role in Patient Care: Breaking it down for those who just don’t understand

Nursing’s Role in Patient Care: Breaking it down for those who just don’t understand

by | Mar 5, 2018 | Advanced Nursing Practice, Cultural Competence, Inspirational, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Inspiration, Nursing Leadership, Patient Advocacy, Patient Safety, Patient Satisfaction, Personal Experience

  “…and you had to attend college to learn how to measure someone’s urine?” – A classic example of a response that I often receive from people who have no clue as to what my roles, responsibilities, or knowledge base consists of as a...
February 2018 Nursing Entrepreneur Spotlight: Donna Cardillo, RN, MA, CSP

February 2018 Nursing Entrepreneur Spotlight: Donna Cardillo, RN, MA, CSP

by | Feb 5, 2018 | Entrepreneurship, Graduate Studies, Inspirational, New Graduate Nurses, NNBA, Nurses Matter, Nursing Inspiration, Nursing Leadership, Personal Experience, Strategies for Success, Uncategorized, Work-Life Balance

It is my strong belief that if we spend more time focusing on supporting and uplifting our colleagues, nurses would find greater satisfaction in the work that they do. Therefore I decided to create a monthly blog series: the Nursing Entrepreneur Spotlight – that...
5 Reasons You Should Consider Online Tutoring

5 Reasons You Should Consider Online Tutoring

by | Jan 25, 2018 | Inspirational, Nurses Matter, Nursing Inspiration, Nursing School, Personal Experience, Strategies for Success, Student Nurse, Studying, Test-Taking Strategies, Uncategorized, Work-Life Balance

With all of the crazy that is going on in our busy lives, it is very difficult to find the time to fit in much-needed tutoring. By the time we factor in commute time against the limited availability of many brick and mortar tutors, it becomes nearly impossible to find...
January 2018 Nursing Entrepreneur Spotlight: Capra Dalton, RN

January 2018 Nursing Entrepreneur Spotlight: Capra Dalton, RN

by | Jan 9, 2018 | Advanced Nursing Practice, Continuing Education, Entrepreneurship, Inspirational, Nurses Matter, Nursing Inspiration, Nursing Leadership, Personal Experience, Strategies for Success

  It is my strong belief that if we spend more time focusing on supporting and uplifting our colleagues, nurses would find greater satisfaction in the work that they do. Therefore I decided to create a monthly blog series: the Nursing Entrepreneur Spotlight...
Making the Best of a Short-Staffed Shift

Making the Best of a Short-Staffed Shift

by | Jan 9, 2018 | Coping with Stress, Inspirational, Nurses Matter, Nursing Chain of Command, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Inspiration, Nursing Leadership, Patient Safety, Personal Experience, Work-Life Balance

  We all know that optimal nursing staff ratios lead to optimal patient outcomes. That’s why many institutions are working collaboratively with the health care team to implement staffing guidelines that will meet our increasingly complex patient needs....