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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

Nursing The Unexpected Job Change

Besides reimbursement changes, The Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for the formation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): joint ventures coordinated by … More

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Accountable Care Organizations, ACO, NEO, New Employee Orientation, new nursing job, nurse blogs, nurses, oncology nurse blogs, preparing for an unexpected job change, professional identity, resume, the Affordable Care Act

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

Vascular Air Embolism: Explaining Tiny Bubbles to Patients

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

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air embolism, air embolus, central venous catheter, central venous catheters, Mannix, nurse blogs, nurses, tiny bubbles, TV shows, VAE

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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

How to Give Good Phone

Nurses spend lots of time on the telephone. So much, that I believe How to Give Good Phone should be … More

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communication, effective communication, message, nurse blogs, nursing school, patients, physicians, receiver, sender, therapeutic communication, you lost my mother?

Are Nurses Attracted to Gardening Because We Work in Close Proximity to Death?

On a beautiful late spring morning, I sat in my favorite chair, sipping coffee and writing. Through the window, I … More

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Biblical, container garden, gardeniing, gardens, gloves, human beings, hummingbird, Lot's wife, nurse blogs, nurses, nurturing, patient care, retirement, salvia

Nursing Interruptions: When the Light Gets in Your Eyes

Running through Portland’s Water Front Park for exercise one morning, the sun silhouetted a Coast Guard helicopter flying low over … More

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Coast Guard, distractions, interruptions, LED medication lights, multitasking, nurse blogs, nurses, Portland's Waterfront Park, safe medication administration, three year olds

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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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