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Nurses: Keeping Your New Job From Feeling Like The Titanic

Complaining about being overwhelmed by a job in this economy is a little like complaining about too much sunshine. It’s … More

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health, Julianna Paradisi, new job, nurse bloggers, nurse blogs, oncology nurse blogs, over-the-needle catheters, overwhelmed, patient care, professionalism, Titanic

Nurses Work in Tight Spaces Under Intense Circumstances

I’m standing in the patient nutrition nook, eating a mid-morning snack of yogurt with a plastic fork, because I can’t … More

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breaks, health, Julianna Paradisi, nurses, personal privacy, personal space for chickens, staff lounge, staffing

You’re Going to be Alright

Years ago, following an art reception, my husband and I were enjoying dinner at a restaurant. As the server set … More

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bike crash, EHR, electronic health records, health, human resources, managing up, Precepting, you're going to be alright

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, … More

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Examined Life, health, Mason jar, New Year, New year resolution, nurse blogs

Nurses and Holiday Stress

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

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Christmas and holiday season, health, holiday stress, nurse blogs, nursing, self care, Stress

For The Nurse on Your Holiday List: A “Shift From Hell” Emergency Kit

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

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Gift, health, Holiday gifts for nurses, nurse bloggers, nurse blogs, nursing, shift from Hell, Shopping, Survival kit, the winter holiday season, Tis the season

Rolling Out Changes So Nurses Aren’t Under a Rock

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

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area under the curve (AUC), carboplatin, carboplatin dose calculator, Creatinine, GFR, health, IDMS, nurses, nursing, Patient, Renal function, serum creatinine

Nurses: Do You Carry Liability Insurance?

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

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health, hospital, hospital policy, Insurance, Insurance policy, legal rights, Liability insurance, nurse lifestyles, nurses, nursing, Patient, personal liability insurance, RN blogs

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

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health, medicine, nurse blogs, nurses, nursing, Patient, patient education, Pharmaceutical drug, pharmacy

Nine Fictional Clinicians I’d Like to Meet (Yeah 9 Not 10. I’m Picky)

In nursing, where years of working long hours can leave us feeling at times as if the tumor always wins, … More

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entertainment, Fictional Doctors and Nurses, finding meaning, happiness, health, humor, inspirational themes, laughter is the best medicine, literature, medicine, nurse lifestyles, nurses in movies, nurses representation in the media, trapped in an elevator

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JParadisiRN is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in painting and writing. Her paintings and short stories have been published nationally. She has exhibited artwork in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Julianna frequently contributes illustrated blog posts to Off The Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing. She has been a nurse for 33 years, specializing in Pediatric Intensive Care, Oncology Infusion, and as an Oncology Nurse Navigator.

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