Sometimes being in nursing school can be like leading a double life. One foot is bravely stepping into the medical world, while the other foot still very much relies on its foundation of the common knowledge of laypeople to keep…
This is a topic that deserves our attention at any stage of our careers, student as well as RN. The way nursing students learn to handle their challenges in school will shape and inform the course of their hopefully lengthy career. Do…
You’re reading this article instead of studying. You know there is a huge difference between pre-nursing and the actual nursing program. You have become a hypochondriac germaphobe. You’ve given serious consideration to trying to give yourself an IV Bolus of…
The job description of a nurse educator is a comprehensive and constantly extended list of competencies and responsibilities. It includes delivering knowledge to nursing students, developing teaching materials and, more generally, improving clinical thinking abilities, facilitating a productive learning environment, arranging a…
Every one is unique and this also applies to nursing students. There are two types of students – ones who take responsibility for their learning and ones who don’t. I was supposed to guest lecture for a school of nursing on the east…
Poor nursing students. On top of everything they’re trying to cram through their heads for class, they also have to go to clinicals… where they’re expected to learn everything and hurt no one. 1. What time is it? Seriously, it…
If you are a nursing student, you will definitely be assigned a few papers to write that require some research. Or maybe you are just ambitious and have the urge to learn more. Thankfully, research is made easier with the…
If there is one foundational class that every nursing student needs to have paid attention and retain, it is anatomy! Often one of the most difficult prerequisite classes, it truly is foundational knowledge from which EVERYTHING else will build upon.…
The public at large naturally expects to be counseled when obtaining medications at the pharmacy department’s pick-up counter. Sadly, this is often not the case. Many, if not all pharmacies, have an opt out signature pad which, when signed, permits the medications…
The life of a nursing student comes in phases. First is the excitement of getting into nursing school, the exhilaration of starting clinicals, and experiencing hands-on patient care. And then the countdown to graduation starts. But as it begins to loom…