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How to Strengthen the Preceptor–New Graduate Nurse Relationship

The preceptor–new graduate nurse relationship can make or break a nurse's transition into practice. Before a new nurse fully finds their footing, the tone set in those first weeks shapes whether they stay, thrive, or quietly walk away.

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10 Powerful Jim Rohn Quotes to Help Nurses Succeed

If you’ve heard me speak, chances are you’ve heard me quote the late Jim Rohn. I’ve listened to this man numerous times on YouTube and audio books, and have read almost everything he’s written.  Each...
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A Patient, His Phone, and a Lawsuit: What went wrong in that GI Room?

When something really heinous occurs in healthcare, nurses usually find out about it via the social media super highway. Unfortunately, our public finds out about it too. The most recent incident posted by KevinMD involved...
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3 Tricks to Reverse Nurse Fatigue Before Getting Out of Bed!

  The unpredictability of healthcare is both exciting AND stressful. If you’re like many nurses, you leave work feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. Nurses spend their lives caring for others yet we often suffer the consequences...
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7 Characteristics of Exemplary Healthcare Teams

  I just did a seminar titled, “Navigating the Road to Exemplary Teams.” In this seminar we spent a lot of time comparing and contrasting sports teams versus healthcare teams. When asked, most of us...
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Aggressive Nurse Bullying: Signs that you might be in danger

Susan didn’t like Karen and everyone knew it. When they would have catfights at the nurses’ station or get into a shouting match in the locker room, everyone just ignored them. “That’s just the way...
Professional Development

From Government Cheese to Successful Nurse Business Owner

Me and my girls when I was 22If I told you that 30 years ago, I was receiving food stamps, feeding my kids with government cheese and peanut butter, and didn’t have $5 to buy...
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Nurses Eating Their Young: Bullying or Hazing?

48% of graduating nurses are afraid that they’ll become the target of workplace bullying. More than 60% of all new nurses QUIT their first job due to the bad behavior of their co-workers. If you...
Professional Development

5 Ways to Climb the Ladder of Knowledge: Tips for Nurses

  This is what I know to be true about patients. They don’t care if you’ve been a nurse for a week, a year, 10 years or 100. They don’t care if you have a...
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