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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Your nursing career is a lot like your body; it needs to be fed, watered, exercised, and well-rested in order to function optimally. What nutritional deficits does your nursing career demonstrate? Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? What kinds of nutrition does your career need?

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Specialized SNF Clinicians Can Help Improve Care Quality at End of Life

Hospice News

Specialized nursing facility clinicians, or SNFists, have a strong potential to reduce hospitalizations and improve quality of care at the end of life, including access to hospice. The work of SNFists uniquely impacted the care of nursing home residents during their last 90 days of life, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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The Continuum of Nurse Career Growth

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

The growth of your career as a nurse can be consciously self-generated, or simply a result of happenstance and a laissez-faire attitude towards professional development. But we can also consider the ways in which work doesn't just pay the bills and put food on the table, but also how it feeds us on the inside.

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Your Nursing Career Mitochondria

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

In terms of your nursing career, what are the mitochondria that power your engine? If you need to stoke the fire of your nursing career, the spark cannot be created in a vacuum. The Driving Force Some of your nursing career mitochondria may originate from the place from which you first decided to become a nurse.

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The Three R's of Nursing

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

There are some very basic things that nurses look for -- and deserve -- in the course of their nursing careers. I posit that there are " Three R's " of nursing, and I identify them as respect, remuneration, and recognition. As I stated in the previous paragraph, nurses lacked recognition of their importance for decades.

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The Quixotic Nurse

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

As a nurse writer and blogger, I often use metaphor as a way to express deeper ideas about nursing and healthcare. In the past, I've explored the myths of Sisyphus and Hercules as they relate to nurses and the nursing profession, and my nature continues to point me towards metaphor as a tool for understanding.

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Mindset is Everything in Your Nursing Career and Beyond

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

In my work as a holistic career coach for nurses, there's one thing I've noticed more than anything else: mindset matters to your nursing and healthcare career. Caffrey and Caffrey wrote: Can nurses practice caring within a healthcare system that promotes codependency?

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