Back-to-School Balance: 5 Tips for Nurses Managing Shift Work and Family Life
The back-to-school season can be both exciting and overwhelming for any parent—but for nurses working variable shifts, it comes with a unique set of challenges. Balancing long hours, overnight rotations, and weekend duties with school drop-offs, homework help, and extracurricular activities can quickly become overwhelming. The mental and physical demands of nursing only add to […]
DNP Student Receives Scholarship Through the Nurses Educational Fund
Ayomidamope “Ayo” Adebiyi, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) nursing student at JHSON, received an NEF Scholarship…
Welcoming the Latest PhD Cohort
As we welcome students back for the school year, we also welcome the latest cohort of…
‘Why social care nursing placements are more important than ever’
Following the launch of a new strategy by Skills for Care, Claire Leenhouwers discusses why social care placements are essential for nursing students. The post ‘Why social care nursing placements are more important than ever’ appeared first on Nursing Times.
Student attrition: understanding the present to secure the future of nursing
Challenges in attrition rates of nursing students remains at an all-time high – so how do we improve student recruitment and retention to help meet future NHS workforce goals? The post Student attrition: understanding the present to secure the future of nursing appeared first on Nursing Times.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Diarrhea is a common cause of external loss of bicarbonate, resulting in non-anion gap metabolic acidosis. Other causes include external drainage of pancreatic or biliary secretions, as from fistulas and ileus secondary to intestinal obstruction.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing The secretions of the large and small bowel are mostly alkaline and have a bicarbonate level higher than that in the plasma. Significant loss of lower GI secretions results in non-anion gap metabolic acidosis.
National Overdose Awareness Day: What Nurses Can Do Right Now
On August 31, National Overdose Awareness Day, the stakes could not be higher. Overdose patterns have shifted toward fentanyl and polysubstance use, complicating recognition and response and stretching families—and clinicians—to a breaking point. In every care setting, nurses are the first eyes, ears, and advocates. As addiction physician Dr. Nzinga Harrison, Co-Founder & Chief Medical […]
$951M Birth Injury Verdict: Nurses in Training, Sleeping Doctor Blamed
In an unprecedented legal decision that has sent ripples through the medical community, a Utah judge awarded $951 million to a family whose daughter suffered lifelong disabilities due to negligent…
Chaos at the CDC: What Nurses Need to Know
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been gripped by unprecedented chaos, with the recent firing of its director, mass resignations, a major employee walkout, an armed attack…