Monthly Archives: May 2012
Intramuscular Injections: Not As Simple As They Seem
I don’t like giving shots in the hip/buttock/anywhere around there. I learned the method of finding the ventrogluteal muscle when I was in nursing school, and it is of little help to me in practice with patients who are standing … Continue reading
Mentoring New Nurses: This Is Our Job
We have a lot of new nurses on my shift. Some are new grads, some are just new to the department, and some are just new to this area of nursing. Either way, they’re new somehow, and a seemingly endless … Continue reading
Nursing Tools: The Importance of Catch Phrases
I was in my previous career when I learned about the importance of catch phrases, but having learned my lesson well, I find them invaluable in my job as a nurse. What do I mean by catch phrases? Let me … Continue reading
A Twist on HIPAA: When a Colleague Is Your Patient
All (I hope) nurses know about HIPAA and patient privacy. Those of us who are relatively new to the field had it drilled into us in nursing school, at every clinical site, and then at our eventual workplaces. More experienced … Continue reading
Interview With a Pre-nursing Student: Part 2
This post concludes my interview with a pre-nursing student. You can find part 1 here. Me: Do you have any tips for finding scholarships or financial aid? No. I stumbled into mine, and it kept expanding. I think you start … Continue reading
Interview With a Pre-nursing Student: Part 1
Deciding to go to nursing school (or, worse, back to nursing school) involves a lot of weighing pros and cons. I interviewed a student (we’ll call her PS) on the cusp of starting nursing school to find out the current … Continue reading
Tech Tools for Nurses: Become a Gmail Ninja
The wisdom of using Gmail vs. other e-mail services can be and has been debated since the first Gmail beta came out years ago, so I will skip all that and make an executive decision to tell you that I … Continue reading
Tools for Nurses: Organizing Electronic Reading Material
Electronically active nurses and nursing students (presumably, readers of this blog, or they wouldn’t be reading this post) need a way to organize the large amount of online material available for education—or entertainment, for that matter. You may view, on … Continue reading
Electronic Textbooks: The New Frontier in Nursing Education?
Nursing school textbooks are a big investment, both regarding the price tag and the physical size. Physical, paper nursing textbooks have hundreds of pages, have to be taken to class every day most of the time, and generally cost at … Continue reading
