All healthcare professionals should be educated in demonstrating moral courage in the face of ethical challenges. Although much has been written on nursing intuitiveness, knowing how to demonstrate moral courage and create an organizational culture that fosters empowerment may not be so intuitive.

Remember that old cigarette slogan “You’ve come a long way, baby”? Not only have women come a long way, but so have nurses. Imagine how lost Florence Nightingale would feel if she were time-warped into this century!

If you’re a trained nursing professional, you can afford to be a discriminating job seeker. But you still need to prepare thoroughly for every job interview.

Nurse-to-nurse report (change of shift or transfer of care) is an age-old skill that no one teaches you. It’s the source of concern for many in healthcare these days, but no one seems to take the time to spell out what makes a good report.

According to the Model Nursing Practice Act (upon which state nurse practice acts are based), grounds for discipline include engaging in unprofessional conduct, described as a departure from, or failure to conform to, standards of professional nursing for which actual injury to a patient need not be established.5 (Such unprofessional conduct or rule-bending becomes negligence when a patient suffers harm as a result.