Nurses and Nursing Students Know Vaccines: Flu Shots
*Since vaccination by nasal mist (LAIV) is not recommended for anyone at this time, the following discussion involves only injectable inactivated flu vaccine (IIV4). Clinics Provide An Opportunity to Learn Many nursing students will have the opportunity to provide flu vaccinations...
Lateral Violence: How Nurse Bullies Affect Client Care
Have you ever had to work with one of those intimidating nurses who makes you feel about three inches tall? You know the type. This is the kind of nurse who sends messages with body language and tone that you...
Back to School Mastery: Part 6— Staying Healthy
Staying Healthy! Notice that this blog post is last in the series? Seem inappropriate? It is. Do you put your health last in real life? Earlier this year, we blogged about the ANA’s Year of the Healthy Nurse. Let’s revisit...
Back to School Mastery: Part 5 — Social Media and Professional Nursing
The American Nurses Association’s e-publication, “ANA’s Principles for Social Networking and the Nurse,” provides guidance on protecting the privacy, confidentiality and inherent dignity of clients. As NCLEX Mastery posts, tweets, snaps and chats about controversial topics occasionally, this seems an...
Back to School Mastery: Part 4 — Study Strategies
Study Strategies What to study? Know that you cannot read everything that is assigned. Skim or scan the assigned material before class. This means learning to quickly search pages for what is most relevant or useful. There are three kinds...
Concept Mastery: Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer isn’t pink or pretty. For women, the most frequent site of a newly diagnosed cancer is the breast, followed by lung and colon. Breast cancer is not as common in men, occurring in roughly 3000 men each year,...
Back to School Mastery: Part 3 — Staying Engaged
Staying Engaged Staying engaged in your education is necessary, but often is a struggle. For some students, nursing classes come easily. Possibly having slogged through two years of chemistry and literature classes (or maybe those were great, too!), this nursing...
Therapeutic Communication
Tips From A Psych Nurse Therapeutic communication is a difficult test area for many student nurses. Luckily, it’s easier for nurses to “read” a situation in real life than it is to answer these questions on the NCLEX! In person, you...
Nursing School Survival Supply Guide: Tips From the Experts
Here is our list of must-have nursing school supplies for “clinicals” and beyond! Stethoscope Get a good one. Don’t spend a million dollars (the digital ones that are labeled cardiac are a bit over-the-top for what you will need so...