Nurse Tips

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Self-Care Tips For Medical Professionals

There are plenty of reasons to feel restless, anxious, and stressed between personal issues, managing long shifts, and dealing with work-related stress. This is exactly why self-care, especially for medical professionals, has never been more essential. Knowing and understanding your body’s needs and attending to them requires one to

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Night Shift Survival Guide For Nurses

Few jobs in healthcare are as misunderstood as night shift nurses. Their important contributions to the patients' well-being and the performance of the nursing teams are routinely undervalued. Because night shift nurses are caring for patients while the rest of the world sleeps, it's reasonable that their

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How To Manage Stress As A Medical Professional

In these unprecedented times of COVID-19, medical professionals are under stress more than ever. This pandemic has not only put a strain on the medical systems but also on the medical professionals as well. The impact of COVID-19 on medical professionals has been overwhelming, with high levels of stress and

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How To Create A Work-Life-Balance As A Medical Professional

A work-life balance entails maintaining a harmonious balance in both a person's professional and personal life. Most times, work dominates a person's life due to various reasons, which can make them feel unhappy, unfulfilled, and even unmotivated. The desire and pressure to be successful can sometimes

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Communication Strategies and Skills for Nurses

Nurse-patient communication is critical to a pleasant patient experience since nurses are on the front lines of patient care. It is critical to improve nurse communication skills in order to provide a favorable patient experience. While health technology has numerous benefits for patients, it can also have a negative impact

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A Medical Professional's Guide to Setting Measurable Goals and Getting Ahead

Goal setting is essential for any growth to take place. In today’s world, it’s common for people to set goals in various aspects of their lives, such as career, fitness, spiritual goals, and many more. It is evident society is always pushing you to work towards your milestones.

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10 Ways to Be Happier and Live a More Fulfilling Life

When you make an intentional choice every day to worry less, you will live a happier, more fulfilling life. The impact of your own lives trickles down onto those surrounding you too. Don't get caught up so much with life that you forget to enjoy the things that

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How To Get The Most Out Of The Holiday As A Medical Professional

Holidays can be a happy time for some people when their spirits are lifted. It's satisfying to look after loved ones, spend time with them, and honor family customs. However, the holidays can indeed be stressful for certain people. During the holidays, an already overworked caretaker realizes that

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Quick Tips to Make Your Life Easier as a Medical Professional

If you’ve been working in the medical industry during the COVID crisis, you’re likely feeling very worn down. If you want to experience a return to normalcy, then it’s important that you do what you can to get your life back to normal. Anything that you can

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Staying Positive in the Medical Industry During Tough Work Crunches

If you’re experiencing a tough time at work, you’re not alone. This has been a very difficult time for people in the medical industry, perhaps one of the toughest in a long while. The hours have been long and crushing, and people have had a lot of traumatic

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Keeping Your Chin Up Moving Into The Cold Season As A Medical Professional

As we head towards the darker and colder months, many medical professionals are going to be heading into work before the sun is up and heading back after the sun is down. If that’s the case, you’re going to need to take steps to care for your mental

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Hobbies Can Take Some of the Stress Out of the Medical Profession

If you’re in the medical industry, you know how important it is to take time to destress after a tough day. If you’re working long and intense hours, you may need to find ways to decompress at the end of the day. You’ll be able to feel

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Tips to Get More and Better Sleep for Those in the Medical Industry

If you’re in the medical industry, the odds are that you’re not getting enough sleep, and the quality of the sleep you are getting is not great. That’s not your fault, it’s an unfortunate reality of the industry for many, but that doesn’t mean that

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Relaxation Tips For Medical Industry Professionals

The medical industry is one of the most stressful out there. You need to work long hours under extremely stressful conditions. Lives hang in the balance and you’re truly pushed to the edge on a frequent basis. You’re able to save lives, and that’s very admirable, but

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Tips for Medical Professionals to Improve Their Diets

During the long hours worked during COVID, many of us lost control of our diets, and some of us have started to see consequences. This can manifest itself in different ways. Some of us have gained weight, some have lost weight, and some have done neither but just aren’t

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Tips for Choosing a Nursing Specialty

Nursing is a rewarding career with many options. However, this range of possibilities can make it challenging to decide on a specialty. To determine which area you might most enjoy, consider your personality type as well as what type of work environment you prefer. Work Setting To begin, determining where

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Tips For New ICU Nurses

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a hospital can be overwhelming, especially when you’re new to the job. To ease the transition to your new work environment, we’ve put together these tips to help you excel. Learn Assertiveness If you’re a naturally assertive person, you’ll have

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Tips to Keep Your Body Feeling Great as a Medical Professional

There are few careers that are harder on your body than the medical industry. Whether it’s the raw stress on your joints and muscles from dealing with patients, or the exhaustion that comes with extremely long and high-stress situations, your body has seen it all. You need some tips

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Rejuvenate the Body and Mind with These Top Tips

The coronavirus has been one of the toughest experiences for most currently active medical professionals. Many of our medical practitioners are beginning to feel the consequences of long hours in a highly stressful environment. As the demands of the pandemic continue to evolve, consider these tips to help bring your

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Dealing With COVID Fatigue in the Medical Industry.

The pandemic introduced what might be the most challenging period medical professionals have had to face in their entire careers. It can’t be overstated how difficult COVID-19 was and continues to be in the medical industry. With people working extremely long hours in high-stress environments, many people are beginning

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Tips for Getting Through 12 Hour Shifts

As a new nurse, it can be challenging to adjust to working 12-hour shifts. The days can seem long, but you’ll find yourself adjusting to the new schedule over time and with these tips. Bring Snacks You’ll be doing a lot of running around, and there’s a

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How to Educate Patients

As a nurse, most of your patients won’t have a background in health or medicine. Patients in the hospital need to be educated about their medical and health needs. Most of the time, they’re eager students — they want to know what they need to do to get healthy

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10 Qualities That All Great Nurses Share

Being a good nurse requires a particular personality type and specific qualities. Of course, people can become great nurses without being born with these attributes, as well. It just requires learning certain skills. Either way, great nurses all share these qualities. Caring Being in the hospital is a trying time

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Stress Relief for Nurses

Stress is bad for your health. As a nurse, you know the stats: over time, stress can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, and more. Learning ways to lower your stress levels, then, can only be a good thing. But before getting into ways to relieve your stress, we

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How to Cope With Patient Death

Throughout your nursing career, there will come times when you experience the death of a patient. For those working in hospice, long-term care, or ICU units, this is almost for certain. While it is an expected part of the job, that expectation doesn’t make coping with the death of