Author Archives: Megen
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
Can You Work Nightshift? Or, the Vampire Primer
I have worked nights the entire time I have worked in hospitals at all, starting from when I was a CNA in nursing school (a strategy that I strongly espouse, but that is only my opinion). I was drafted into … Continue reading
Nursing Resources: Keeping Current With CEUs in the US
At some point in every nurse’s career, CEUs (continuing education units) become a consideration. To keep your license current, you must update it every 2 years, and each state requires a certain number of CEUs during that period. You can … Continue reading
Do You Have Secondary Trauma?
I’ve been reading blog posts lately from nurses claiming to have PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) from getting their feelings hurt by management, basically. PTSD is a real and serious diagnosis not to be bestowed lightly on oneself regarding situations that … Continue reading
Tweeting on the Clock
A nursing student/CNA e-mailed me recently because of the column “Patient Privacy and Company Policy in Online Life” I wrote for AJN, which I quote not to plug my own column but to provide some reason why she would ask … Continue reading
