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From this Iraq war nurse to all of you COVID-19 war nurses: I see you. I see your utter exhaustion from long days and extra shifts. I see your despair that the stream of casualties seems endless. [...]

My friends are all leaving me, and I don’t blame them. Throughout the past six months, it seems as though every week I walk onto the unit, I hear that another one of my coworkers has put in their [...]

The American Nurses Association (ANA) in collaboration with Sanofi Pasteur, the global vaccines division of Sanofi, and actress Jennifer Grey have launched the Flu Shot Fridays national flu [...]

The exodus of experienced nurses leaving the front lines, as well as turnover among early-career nurses, have led to a widening skills gap, creating major implications for a health care system in [...]

Stress First Aid (SFA) teaches individuals, either peer-to-peer or through leadership, how to identify stress in other individuals, in groups or teams or even at the organizational level, says [...]

Rutgers Nursing would like to invite you to the School of Nursing’s virtual event from 4-5 p.m. on September 23. “The Frontline Nurse’s Journey from Trauma to Healing” will feature a virtual [...]

By Sheila Caldwell, BSN, RN, CSN-NJ “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” This quote from H. Jackson Brown Jr., the author of Life’s Little Instruction Book, holds great [...]

Over the course of my entire life, I seldom believed in myself. I thought I was stupid. I swore I would never return to school. And when I did, I never thought I’d become a nurse. But I always [...]

I’m a nurse educator and educating others (really, being educated by others) is my greatest joy in life. Every time I speak with Miss E., I learn. She is one of the elderly residents who live in [...]

Nurses often reach out to me for advice — they have an innovation idea and don’t know what to do next. This is rarely taught in nursing school, which is why I love having these conversations with [...]