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Pivoting…not just for athletes anymore.
Well….I have some news. I started this blog because I didn’t have the greatest experience as a student nurse. I wanted to be a voice of reason and calm, encouraging SN’s on their journey to becoming RNs. But then I read the book “The Nurses Guide to Blogging” by Brittney Wilson and Kati Kleber (this is a fantastic read, I highly recommend it to anyone looking to getting into blogging). This book helped me to understand what my vision truly is for Know It, Nurse and I realized that my bottom line is about happiness. I want nurses to be happy in their work and their lives. So I have decided to…
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How To Succeed At Preceptorship (without even trying).
….guys. I’m kidding. You have to try. But I may have just tricked you into becoming a better nurse and that’s basically the WHOLE POINT of this blog to begin with. So let me lay this out for you. I have had a lot of students. A lot. And there are a few things that sets good students apart from mediocre ones. I can usually tell within the first few hours or so who is going to impress me and who I am going to have to work with a bit more to be successful. So let’s get at ‘er. Be professional. I cannot stress this enough. Don’t talk about my patients behind…
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Is Nursing Sexist?
Today is International Women’s Day. It has got me thinking a lot about the profession of nursing and how it has impacted women for hundreds of years. Historically, nursing was one of the few careers that women could actively pursue, generally giving it up when they married and had children. But it is impossible to deny that because women are the most represented in nursing, this profession stands in a unique space where women have had a voice in influencing the health care field for hundred of years. But does that mean that we have gained equality? And what does “equality” look like when the vast majority of nurses are…
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The Nervous Nurse: Anxiety and the Clinical Environment
I remember being in my third year of Nursing School and wanting nothing more than to puke (and then take a nap). I was in a peds medicine rotation and clinical was awful. I had a brutal instructor who had a big chip on her shoulder about not having a degree but educating those of us who were working towards one. I remember being so terrified of making a mistake that I was pretty much guaranteed I would. I was an A-student and always had been. But then this rotation. My instructor threatened to put me on what my university called a “learning contract” which is basically the last ditch…
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Self-Care Ideas (that don’t suck).
If you are a nursing student or a recent grad, I bet you have heard a lot about this mythical concept of “self-care”. This is the idea that nurses need to do things to restore and revive themselves, given their stressful jobs. I wonder who was the first to come up with that phrase? The crazy thing about it is the mere fact that we have to tell nurses “Hey! Did you know that you shouldn’t drive yourself insane and maybe you could do something fun every 3-4 weeks?”. Do we have to remind them to be functioning human beings because nursing is such a hard career, or do we have…
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You’ve Got This.
As soon as I decided to become a nurse I was all in. It came out of nowhere. I had just finished a four year undergraduate degree majoring in Political Science with a minor in Art History. I was a musician. I was one of those “creative types”. When I told my sister I was going to go into nursing she laughed out loud. A little too ‘out loud’ if you ask me. See, I was no good at things like “science” or “math” or “not being terrified of blood”. But after graduation from my first degree I was totally lost. I didn’t know what I wanted for my future or where…
