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Stress is part of life, especially for all nurses. Here are 11 practical tips to master wellbeing and manage your…

Frequently we think of healthy habits as activities relating to the physical realm and often time forget about our mental…

Conflicts happen in relationships. That is a normal part of life that everyone has difficulty with at times. But if…

One third to one half of patients will fail to follow a physician’s treatment recommendations. Labeling such patients “noncompliant” implicitly…

There may be many barriers to effective physician-patient communication. Patients may feel that they are wasting the physician’s valuable time;…

Balancing family life and work can be difficult for any professional. However, this is especially true for nurses. For instance,…

Nurses know stress. Emotionally draining work, long hours and staffing challenges can stress any nurse out over time, leading to…

As if the actual nursing job is not hard enough, add difficult patients or co-workers to the mix and you…

Nursing is more a lifestyle than a profession. Sometimes, it can become all-consuming and lead you to neglecting other aspects…

Nurses should be proud of what they do. It’s not high-brow, and it’s not pretentious. There is such thing as…

One of the most important and sometimes difficult relationships in the medical profession is the interaction between the nurse and…

Dealing with an “angry” patient is an uncomfortable situation for any clinician. By nature, most people would prefer to avoid…

Physicians often lack training in communications skills that would enable them to navigate challenging patient encounters effectively. “Difficult” patients have…

In a recent poll, nurses were once again at the top of 21 professions for honesty and ethics. We’ve held…

Whatever your nursing specialty, you can bet there’s an association out there to offer career information, continuing-education credit, networking opportunities…

Family medicine is a specialty characterized by a high level of professional satisfaction, personal balance between career and home, and…

Less than one percent of all American nurses have a doctoral degree. But if the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has…

It takes many great qualities to be a good nurse. Nursing as a specialty requires people to be as smart…

You don’t get to choose your patients. So your relationship with them can range anywhere from “match made in heaven”…

The following is an excerpt from Illinois Nurse Practice Act Sec. 60-30. Any registered professional nurse, who notifies the Department…