A Blue Mason Jar Full of Post-It Notes Goals for The New Year

Note from JParadisiRN: This post was originally published on this blog in 2011. As it remains one of my most popular,…

Nurses and Holiday Stress

Nursing potentiates normal holiday stressors. For many nurses, the beauty of the winter holidays is diminished by feelings of stress.…

As if the onslaught of commercials isn’t enough to remind us, the winter holiday season has begun. For nurses, whose patients…

It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving, and I’m grocery shopping. Pushing a cart through throngs of people looking for that special can…

The Adventures of Nurse Niki The Adventures of Nurse Niki Chapter 21 is posted! In this week’s episode, Simon’s Turn,…

I was about to administer a chemotherapy infusion. The carboplatin dose was double-checked by a co-worker. First, she calculated the…

It happens almost every shift — I hang an IV infusion, and no matter how carefully the tubing is primed,…

When I was fresh out of nursing school, all bright and shiny, I bought a personal liability insurance policy, because…

“All nurses are different. Some just jab the needle into you, and it hurts.” -A patient Few things make me…

Last week, I had the pleasure of being a guest of nurse bloggers Keith Carlson and Kevin Ross (or, as I…