Nurses Asked To Tackle Unfair Health Inequities & Discrimination The ICN International Council Of Nurses have produced a new position statement called the ‘Health inequities and discrimination – new ICN’s position statement addresses role of nurses’   As an organisation the ICN representing nurses with a voice globally and in this statement they have found that during the COVID-19 pandemic that inequities have increased in societies worldwide and unfortunately it has transferred into health systems too. The ICN CEO Howard Catton said – “The pandemic exposed existing inequaliti ..read more

Being Self Sacrificing Without Losing Your Self Worth Once I was working a morning shift as an agency nurse, a few nurses and myself were sent to lunch for our breaks. I remember a young nurse who seemed really excited, she was sitting a table away from the main group of ward nurses She was excited because the day before the shift she baked a cake and it did actually looked delicious, for all the time and the amount of effort it would have taken to bake the cake she was generous to share a slice with everyone. The group of nurses each took a slice cake from her and within a moment they ..read more

7 Practical Areas Of Wellness For Nurses Nurses often forget to recognise wellbeing as individuals, involving self care is essential especially as the life of nursing is busy and at times exhausting. Outside of work at home some nurses have family as the main priority and some nurses have to meet other obligations that makes them time poor The saying that ‘nurses are self sacrificing’ is another reason practising wellness is difficult for nurses, we often forget our own needs as all of our energy is focused in the work to provide for patients needs. Sometimes we may even have a feeling ..read more

87 Roles In Nursing That Are Unique On Pinterest I regularly make pins on different topics about nursing, recently I’ve been making them for a board titled ‘Who’s Your Nurse?’, its about different roles in nursing. As I was making the pins it was becoming more obvious that I knew that there are heaps of different job roles, but I have never taken the time to acknowledge how unique each individual nursing role is Slowly I was writing the descriptions for the pins on  it started to sink in that the range of roles that nurses work in is even more than I thought and offers so many dive ..read more

3 Common Types Of Bullying In The Workplace Unfortunately many nurses will be familiar with some sort of bullying, it can impact anyone in any stage of their career from students, graduate nurses and established nurses of all levels may have experienced some sort of harassment or bullying The environment that nurses work in are like ‘pressure cookers’, the work area is with a group of people with all the different personalities adding heat to the pot and that lid being shut so firmly, exisiting inside with the rising heat and pressure can make a nurse feel trapped when being bullied. Th ..read more

7 Nursing Questions From ChatGPT – The AI Revolution Google is normally the best place to search for information on the internet especially to get some answers to any questions that we may have now there is ChatGPT, a new place to go to find information on the Internet Disclaimer- This blog post has answers that are generated by ChatGPT The first question I asked was – What Is ChatGPT? The answer generated by was – ChatGPT is a conversational language model developed by OpenAI, designed to generate human-like text responses to questions and prompts. It uses the latest advancements in ma ..read more

Nurses Striking – What’s Happening To The Nurses In The UK? I was recently on holiday in the UK and being there reminded me how nursing is a global profession, no matter in which country nurses are in we are always at the front line plus we experience being at work differently in each country The UK health system is facing extreme difficulties, it is in a workforce crisis with nurses and many health professionals such as ambulance staff taking industrial action with striking over pay and work conditions. While in the UK the NHS (National Health System) was being talked about all the tim ..read more

15 Hilarious Nurse Memes, All In A Days Work Here is a collection of 15 hilarious nurse memes, showing the day in the life of a hospital based nurse through memes – 1. Oh No, The Night Nurses Aren’t Looking Happy –    When you walk into work for a morning shift and you see the night shift nurses faces, plus the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. Their looks tell me to turn around because the handover from night shift is about to get wild. Its time to breathe & lets start this day!!  2. After Handover & On The Floor To Start Working –   I’m always hopeful that eac ..read more

3 Benefits Of Working Part Time For Nurses It’s not just in healthcare but in many industries it seems the way we work is changing, in the past it was ‘normal’ to have a full time job as a nurse and on top of that many nurses also worked with an agency to pick up an extra shift now and then. Thinking about it now it was something we just did and we always were pushing through any fatigue   Even comparing from just 10 years ago work now has a different meaning to how we used to be it feels the pace of work has quickened. These examples are based only on observations that have been i ..read more

How Nursing Inspired Me To Become A Blogger When I was deciding to start a blog I took a moment to pause and thought about the everyday work we do, its amazing because we meet so many people and some of these times stay with us by becoming memories, especially when we have cared for others we see the experiences of what people are going through with their health Plus when I’m outside of work on an every day basis I consume some kind of content through reading, listening or watching so much and slowly I realised that I could share some of my experiences of my career as a registered nurse ..read more