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Mental Health & Burnout: Coping with Workplace Stress as a Nurse

Healthcare workers are twice as likely to experience depression compared to other professions. Exposure to violence, online harassment, and emotional trauma increases the risk of PTSD and anxiety in nurses. If you've ever felt exhausted, detached, or emotionally drained—you’re not alone.

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Social Media & Nurses: What You Need to Know

Social media has transformed how we connect, share, and engage with the world. For nurses, it can be an excellent tool for networking, professional growth, and patient education. However, it also comes with serious risks—from online harassment to job-related consequences that could impact your career.

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Workplace Violence Against Nurses: What Every New Nurse Needs to Know

Workplace violence in healthcare is alarmingly common, yet it remains underreported, dismissed, or even accepted as “part of the job.”

For new nurses and NCLEX students, understanding the reality of workplace violence is essential. Knowing what to expect, how to recognize the signs, and what steps to take can help protect you and your colleagues.

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Confidence in Nursing: Building the Foundation for Success

Confidence is an essential quality for nurses at all stages of their careers. It influences everything from mastering new procedures to advocating for patients and making sound clinical decisions. For new nurses and NCLEX students, confidence can be the key to overcoming challenges like imposter syndrome, performing under pressure, and providing safe, effective care. In this blog, we’ll explore why confidence is vital, how it impacts nursing practice, and actionable strategies for building and maintaining it.

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Professional Boundaries: Why They Matter and How to Maintain Them

 Professional boundaries are an essential component of ethical and practical care. They serve as a framework to maintain trust, safety, and respect between professionals and their clients, colleagues, or superiors. For nurses, these boundaries are crucial for fostering therapeutic relationships, ensuring patient safety, and upholding professional integrity. Violations of these boundaries can have lasting consequences, including legal penalties, damage to reputation, and harm to patient well-being.

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Healthcare Ethics and Legal Issues: A Guide for New Nurses and NCLEX Warriors

Nurses are on the front lines of healthcare, making decisions that directly affect patients' lives. Those decisions aren’t just clinical but moral and legal, too. Ethical dilemmas and legal conflicts come up all the time in nursing.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and legal frameworks give us the tools to handle these situations with integrity, professionalism, and compassion.

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Chronic Disease Management: The Secret Sauce for New Nurses and NCLEX Success

Let’s talk about something that will help you crush the NCLEX and give you a serious edge as a new nurse: Chronic Disease Management.

Ninety percent of the nation's $4.5 trillion in annual healthcare expenditures are for people with chronic and mental health conditions. Chances are, a massive chunk of your patient load will consist of people with chronic illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, or COPD. These conditions don’t go away after one hospital visit—they’re lifelong and require a lot of TLC to keep under control.


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Clinical Judgment: Your Superpower in Nursing

Clinical judgment is making informed decisions about patient care by combining your knowledge, experience, and the patient’s specific situation. It’s like putting together a puzzle—assessing symptoms, interpreting data, and determining the best action.

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Medication Administration Proficiency: Mastering the Art of Safe and Effective Care

Every patient deserves safe care, and every nurse has the power to make that happen. It starts with one simple act: infection control. Infection control isn’t just about rules; it’s about saving lives—both your patients' and your own. This blog will break down key infection control skills, with practical tips and fun ways for new nurses and NCLEX students to master them.

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Mastering Infection Control: Your Ultimate Guide to Hand Hygiene, PPE, and Aseptic Techniques

Every patient deserves safe care, and every nurse has the power to make that happen. It starts with one simple act: infection control. Infection control isn’t just about rules; it’s about saving lives—both your patients' and your own. This blog will break down key infection control skills, with practical tips and fun ways for new nurses and NCLEX students to master them.

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From Aspiring Nurse to Accomplished RN: Setting Intentions for a Transformative Year

This blog is about helping you make 2025 your most impactful year as you transition from an aspiring nurse to an accomplished RN. Whether fresh out of school or conquering the NCLEX, you’re setting off on an adventure of professional growth. Rhoda gives you a guide to fulfilling achievements, making goals, and the reflecting on the lessons you'll gather on your nursing expedition into the new year!

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A Season of Care: 12 Days of Nursing Tips for Success

Embrace the holiday spirit with 12 nursing tips to finish the year strong. From self-care to study hacks, Rhoda share tips to keep you focused, motivated, and ready to succeed in your nursing journey, and into the new year!

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Understanding Constipation

Rhoda gives you a guide to provide you with the critical information needed to master questions related to constipation on the NCLEX.

Read on to discover how to practice NGN NCLEX questions by way of an evolving case study.

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Insight kits: What is in them, Rhoda?

So, I have written down for each side what is in the insight kit for Friday, May 3, and through to the following Friday: If at any time after you paid for the subscription and you feel like you are not getting your money’s worth, let me know what you would like help on

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