Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 1, 2023

The notion of pivoting in your nursing career isn't a new one, and that readiness to pivot can emerge from a nimbleness of mind and a willingness to read the tea leaves of your career. Nurse, are you nimble? Let's say you're a nurse like me who worked in home health for the first decade of your career.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? Nurse practitioners are thankfully filling those gaps in primary care.

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Diversity Nursing

JUNE 2, 2022

Check out this list of books recommended for Nurses, and maybe you'll discover a new favorite. I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse. This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of Nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Inspired Nurse.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This special episode of The Nurse Keith Show titled "Perinatal Safety Nursing, Evidence-Based Practice, and Fostering a Culture of Safety," features guest Jeanette Zocco, a perinatal quality and safety specialist. Jeanette Zocco delves into the significance of safety protocols in perinatal nursing.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JUNE 6, 2022

In the world of nurses and nursing, it can feel like we are told what we “should” do with our careers much more often than what we “could” do. There are plenty of things we’re told we should or shouldn’t do or think as nurses — so many people seem to want to control how we view our careers and what choices we make.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JANUARY 16, 2023

Nurses, when you're sitting in a job interview for a new nursing position, do you feel like you have to constantly be on the defensive? A Case in Point Let's say you've been a nurse for four years, and you're in a job interview for a nursing position that you're really excited about. Let's unpack Penelope's response.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Nurses are everywhere. The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. Nurses don't shy away from responsibility — they embrace it. Nurses run towards the metaphorical fire. The Ubiquitous Nurse Where would the country be without nurses? They are legion.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MARCH 28, 2022

Whether you're a nursing educator, researcher, nurse entrepreneur, or nurse clinician, creating a nursing career legacy is both recommended and essential. No matter your place in the nursing ecosystem, leaving something behind that has meaning for you will suffuse your career with a sense of accomplishment.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JANUARY 2, 2023

When the New Year begins in earnest, many of us nurses start to consider what we'd like to accomplish in our personal lives and nursing careers. Looking back at the previous year will directly inform how you approach the twelve months ahead of you and your nursing career. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 6, 2024

Nurses Week occurs every year during the second week of May, and much fanfare is made of the pizza parties, tote bags, water bottles, and signs proclaiming “ heroes work here.” The American Nurses Association (ANA) has chosen the theme “ Nurses Make the Difference” for the 2024 celebration. What Would Florence Think?

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JUNE 27, 2022

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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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In the course of your nursing career, you need allies who can help you elevate and advance your journey as a professional nurse. Allies are easier to come by than you think, but so many nurses don't think strategically about this important aspect of nursing career development.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Owning and stepping into your own genius as a nurse is important; and genius is, of course, relative for all nurses. Failing that, simply taking this excellent advice to heart will be enough to potentially imbue your life and nursing career with a more solid sense of self à la Wilde. (On

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 2, 2022

This is the week that's set aside for nurses to be praised, thanked and stroked. Gratitude goes a long way in this world, so this is a week when clear and heartfelt gratitude for nurses can be found in many places, both expected and unexpected. How will you mark Nurses Week this year? Well, this is it, folks.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JANUARY 23, 2023

Just the other day, I was drinking a latte (decaf I'm an unapologetic caffeine lightweight), and I realized that there's a very appropriate metaphor related to nurses, nursing, and a perfectly brewed latte. So, enough about the latte; you want to know how this relates to nursing in any way. Indulge me.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

APRIL 25, 2022

So, my nurse friend, it's twenty years in the future, and you have two more decades of nursing under your belt. They may not recall exact moments, but they might say, " You know, when I was in the hospital in 2014, there was this nurse who was so kind to me. What do you remember, and what do your patients and colleagues recall?

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Nurse practitioners have been valuable members of the healthcare ecosystem for decades. NP Innovation is Here Coming from a background steeped in nursing’s more holistic view of patient care, nurse practitioners’ outlook can differ significantly from physicians’ perspectives. ” Dr. .’

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JULY 25, 2022

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. The Continuum of Consciousness Considering these suppositions, where do you fall on the continuum of consciousness vis-à-vis your nursing career?

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 10, 2022

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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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

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? As you care for your body, you should also be caring for your nursing career. What kinds of nutrition does your career need?

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Has your nursing career drifted off course? Going Adrift We all choose nursing as a career for a variety of reasons. For some, nursing is simply the prudent career choice in order to put food on the table for our families. For some, nursing is simply the prudent career choice in order to put food on the table for our families.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JUNE 13, 2022

It's no secret that there's a multitude of unhappy nurses out there in the world. From mandatory overtime to unhealthy nurse-patient ratios, I admit there are very valid reasons for this seeming epidemic of discontent. So, is the nursing glass half-full or half-empty? I get that too. That's a given. Kudos to them.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

APRIL 17, 2023

Nurses, do you need some magic to get your nursing career back on track? Career development for nurses isn't rocket science, but manifesting some magic and joy for the betterment of your career is certainly possible if you want it. 2) Seek informational interviews with nurses doing work that piques your curiosity.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the world of nursing, consistent rates of students graduating from nursing programs, becoming licensed, and successfully entering the workforce are critical to the long-term viability of the nursing profession and the healthcare system itself. In that regard, nursing education is a pipeline to the future.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Patrice Little, DNP, FNP-BC, is a senior policy advisor for the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action , an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working to improve America’s health through nursing. I like to tell people I took the scenic route of becoming a nurse.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

APRIL 18, 2022

Nurses, do you ever feel that your nursing career is on autopilot? Autopilot and You When your nursing career is on autopilot, you may be staying at a job you don't really like because you don't have the gumption or fortitude to think clearly about what you want. This is normal, and autopilot works in these situations.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 23, 2022

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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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Job interviews are a source of stress for many job-seekers, and nurses are no exception. Nursing can feel like a rough and tumble profession when it comes to the high-stakes interview process, and for those nurses who are unsure how to articulate their value, the interview can seem like an insurmountable hurdle.

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Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Nursing field offers many Nursing specialties to choose from depending on your interests and skills. The stress of the pandemic has increased Nurses' interest in positions beyond the hospital setting. Some of those opportunities include: Nurse Educator. Some of those opportunities include: Nurse Educator.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 7, 2024

One of my former nursing students, a vibrant young Black woman, tragically lost her life and the life of her newborn during childbirth. In recognition of National Nurses Week, it’s crucial to reflect on nurses’ profound impact on healthcare, particularly in addressing health disparities.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 30, 2022

Speaking with a nurse colleague the other day, she was referring to something she’s attempting to do in her life outside of nursing as her “Personal Everest”. Photo by Fabrizio Conti on Unsplash Your Nursing Everest Your nursing Everest could be any number of things. Is it achieving your next degree? I surmise it will.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Earning an advanced degree offers nurses immediate career benefits, including skills and knowledge they’ll apply to their work long before graduation. And because their experience and expertise were crucial to in-the-moment patient care scenarios, public awareness about nurse practitioners increased.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He continued his work for another decade, partly due to the skills of Goldie Brangman, CRNA , MEd, the nurse anesthesiologist who treated him in 1958. A special thank-you to Ebony magazine for saving and sharing the 2015 AANA story on Brangman.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 16, 2022

If you're an older nurse, you might remember TV shows and movies with a private eye or detective carrying a magnifying glass as he or she doggedly searched for clues to solve a perplexing case. If you're a younger nurse, you might be more likely to think of Sherlock with actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Am I happy in my nursing career?

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AJN Off the Charts

MAY 27, 2022

Today, ER nurses, paramedics, and physicians see young gunshot victims far too often. In 2014, AJN published “ Guns and Nurses, ” a thoughtful Viewpoint by Mary Narayan on what nurses can do to reduce harms from guns. It was gut-wrenching, the kind of thing that should be a “never-event.” I get that.

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The Nurse Break

MARCH 28, 2024

I studied something completely different to nursing, while still nursing. I questioned how I had found myself as a nurse, when my lifelong dream had always been writing. Consequently, taking this job was where I found my real passion for nursing. Yet this career vacation proved not to be so fruitless.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Cara Lunsford, RN, Vice President of Community at Relias and founder of HOLLIBLU, created a community-building social app as an all-in-one resource for nurses to support, collaborate, connect, network, and guide each other. I then went into administration, and I was a director of nursing. Are there any limits to what nurses can share?

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