Nurses Weekly

Most nurses have excellent clinical skills that they learned through their education and on the job. Soft skills, however, are usually traits that cannot be taught. They affect the patient-nurse [...]

Have you ever considered becoming a nurse in one of the armed forces? You may be wondering if you need to become an RN first, what type of degree you need and if requirements are the same [...]

When Colin James, a nurse at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, won an Ed Sheeran-signed guitar in a radio station contest, he thought it was great. The only problem is he [...]

The decision to become a nurse is often an easy one. You want to help people and nursing is a great way to do it. Unfortunately, a lot of bedside nursing can be draining and after a hard shift, [...]

Most nurses switch employers a few times over the course of their career or move to a different position within the same health care facility. Even if you’re happy with your job right now, it’s [...]

The 33-credit Master of Arts in Health Communication is designed to prepare students to excel in communications roles within the health care industry. The program will give working professionals [...]

When patients and families don’t treat nurses with the same level of respect as doctors, it can affect the quality of care. On the flip side, nurses who develop good relationships with their [...]

The results come as no surprise to anyone who has ever worked in the nursing field, but now a new study out of the University of Pennsylvania proves it beyond a reasonable doubt—quality care and [...]

Whether your bad day involved bureaucracy, a toxic co-worker or a patient who passed away, there are tried-and-true ways to make a comeback, right in time to start work the following day. Veteran [...]

Now that the new year is well on its way, are your new year resolutions starting to chafe? Are you struggling to shake off the visions of sugar plums dancing in your head? From Valentine’s Day to [...]