Category Archives: General Nursing Blather
Child Life – An Important Part of Pediatric Care
Chances are, if you’ve never spent any time inside a Children’s Hospital, you have no idea what Child Life is or what they do. When I started my pediatric clinical, I was immediately intrigued by Child life and their work. … Continue reading
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Why do pediatric nurses need to like kids?
This was actually a search term that someone typed in to land on my blog. I think if you have to ask the question, this field is probably not the right one for you. The one thing pediatric nursing has … Continue reading
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Just call me… PEDIATRIC Nurse
If you read my blog from start to finish, you will notice one consistent theme. Pediatrics. When I started on this journey, pediatrics was so far off my radar it’s not even funny. If you talk to my classmates, many … Continue reading
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Just Call Me RN!
What a great feeling today, to be able to drop the … Eventually from my blog name. I am a NURSE! I took my NCLEX exam last week, on January 12. What a nerve wracking experience, and I’ll be honest … Continue reading
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Impostor Syndrome
One of these things is not like the other…. Last week in class, when we were going over what the next few months had in store for us, my instructor brought up a very good point. We are all impostors. … Continue reading
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The Countdown
The countdown is on! I’ve neglected this blog over the past few months. I’ll be honest. I was checked out. For the first time in what seems like an eternity, I was able to relax and enjoy my summer vacation. … Continue reading
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Freedom of Religion
During the very first semester of nursing school, we were drilled up one side and down the other with culture. Cultures, religions, beliefs, practices…all of the things that our patients might have that make them different from *us* (in the … Continue reading
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The Wall.
All nursing students get to this point eventually. If you are a student nurse, and you aren’t there yet – don’t worry, it’s coming. What is the inevitable plight of which I speak? The wall. That proverbial wall that you … Continue reading
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WWFD?
That is: “What would Florence Nightingale do?” I’m a fourth semester nursing student now. It’s hard to believe it…. the time is flying by now, and I can see the end of the tunnel. I can practically taste graduation! There … Continue reading
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Where I want to work…
When you start working in the hospitals… on the floors, here and there… you start to get a sense of where you “belong”. There are so many places, so many specialities. And I will admit, there is something special about … Continue reading
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