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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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PREVENTING NURSE FATIGUE: ARE YOU A RUMINATOR OR REFLECTOR?

Nurse fatigue is a big problem. It’s like a virus that infects current and future nurse depleting our energy, taking the joy out of nursing and causing us harm. But there are some things you...
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PREVENTING NURSE FATIGUE: START CONNECTING

I’ve been spending some time talking about nurse fatigue – how to prevent it and how to reverse it if you’re already burned out! In my previous blogs I shared a few powerful strategies you...
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PREVENTING NURSE FATIGUE: OWN YOUR PRACTICE

Nurse fatigue and burnout are huge problems. So many nurses start their careers with optimism, enthusiasm and an overwhelming feeling of joy but then get bogged down with the realities of the day-to-day challenges of...
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NURSE FATIGUE PREVENTION STRATEGY #2

Nurse fatigue is getting a lot of attention lately. Why? It’s because studies show that when nurses get burned out – individual nurses, the nursing profession, health care organizations and ultimately patients SUFFER! Of course...
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#1 Strategy to Prevent Nurse Fatigue

  Nurse fatigue, compassion fatigue, burnout and disengagement are words that describe the same thing - the feeling of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual depletion. Why is it that nurses in particular feel so depleted...
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ARTICLE REVIEW: “THE BANALITY OF HEROISM” BY ZENO FRANCO AND PHILIP ZIMBARDO

While writing my book on nurse bullying, I spent a lot of time researching human behavior – in particular, why some people treat others horrifically. I read and wrote about the Stanford Prison experiment (which...
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NURSE BULLYING: A VIOLATION OF OUR CODE OF ETHICS

Nurse bullying is alive and well in our current health care environment. But is it a new problem? “Nurses eating their young” has plagued our nursing profession for decades. Maybe that’s why the American Nurses...
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How to Stop Student Bullying

Did you ever have a student say something disrespectful in class…or worse…use foul language? If so, how did you respond? Did you address it or ignore it? Did you know that 56% of all instructors...
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