10 Spots To Get Back To Nature In Oklahoma City
This is a guest post by Sarah Miller As a travel nurse, you likely spend most of your day worrying about the well-being of others. Being on the road and on your feet for a majority of the day can certainly take its toll on your own mental and physical well-being. Now, if you’ve already had the opportunity to explore Oklahoma City, you’ll know it is a big friendly city full of garage sale fanatics, outstanding comfort food, and home of the Oklahoma City Thunder Basketball team. Aside from the hustle and bustle of any city though, are nature’s wonders.…
10 Nursing Skills You Cannot Learn In The Classroom
Sponsored post by: Host Healthcare As graduation wraps up and new nurses are getting ready to enter the workforce it’s important we examine 10 nursing skills you cannot learn in the classroom. While many nursing skills are taught in a classroom, the reality is, grad nurses really don’t know it all. This article is designed to help new nurses have a long and successful career. Here is our list of 10 nursing skills you cannot learn in the classroom. 1. ProfessionalismWhether you are interacting with patients, their families, or colleagues, it’s important nurses always exhibit professionalism. As a nurse, you…
Top 10 Travel Safety Tips
Safety is of great concern to travel nurses. Here are my Top 10 Travel Safety Tips. Please note that this list is not all-inclusive. Most generally, if you exercise common sense and use your ‘gut’ feelings you will be fine. The biggest thing that I will stress is that if you feel unsafe, leave the unsafe location immediately. Always be aware of your travel safety. Here are some tips that I try to follow to stay safe: 1. Check the new neighborhood: http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/ or http://www.crimemapping.com 2. Plan your stops in town vs rest areas. Avoid places without vehicles or people around. I…
Why Nurses Eat Their Young! – A Nurse Perspective
The following is a Guest Post via Erica MacDonald After reading The Gypsy Nurse’s Post Nurses ‘Eat Their Young?’, I wondered if anyone had a different opinion than me on the cause of this phenomenon. A nurse “eating their young” is an almost accepted form of bullying by many nurses (the ones that participate). Most don’t admit (even to themselves) that they are eating their young but cleverly try to disguise their bullying actions by positioning their attitude/behavior toward the new nurse as “helping” or “providing an educational opportunity.” People who have worked in other careers agree that they have…
Violence in the Workplace: A nurses perspective
Violence in the workplace is not tolerated. Most professions will protect their workers from workplace violence. Nursing, however, is very different. How can you be protected from the violence that confused, drugged-out, neuro-damaged patients will ultimately give you? You can’t. It’s a simple fact that nurses will be assaulted at one time or another during your career. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines workplace violence as any physical assault, threatening behavior or verbal abuse occurring in the workplace. Violence includes overt and covert behaviors ranging in aggressiveness from verbal harassment to murder. (NIOSH 1996) Violence in healthcare Violence…
Top Ten Items For Travel Nurses
Sponsored post from Gifted Healthcare: Being on the road week after week takes So. Much. Energy. Staying organized and on top of things can easily fall to the wayside when you’re adjusting to an unfamiliar workplace with new co-workers and patients. Luckily, there are ways to make these transitions a little easier and with the right supplies, the ‘travel’ part of travel nursing can be so much easier! Here are the top ten items for travel nurses that will help your adventure be more about pursuing your passion, and less about dumping out your suitcase trying to find your…
5 Yoga Poses That Help with Indigestion While Travel Nursing
Long trips can really mess up our body’s natural rhythm. This is especially true when we travel into a different time zone. The bigger the change, the more under the weather feel. Not only will our day-night rhythm be out of sync, keeping us awake at night, a jet lag can cause headaches, nausea, and indigestion. Sometimes we can’t relieve ourselves for days. But not only occurs this phenomenon when traveling into a different time zone but also when simply traveling to a new place. Sleeping in a different bed, eating unfamiliar food – A change in the environment is…
What to Do When all the Traveling Catches Up to You
The Following is a Guest Post by: Tara Heath Are you feeling the burn of your “gypsy” lifestyle? Has all of that traveling finally taken its toll on you? If so, take a deep breath and get ready to relax your stresses and tensions away. Here are some tips and tricks for soothing your weary bones when the Traveling catches up to you. The life of a traveling nurse is certainly rewarding. Helping others in need worldwide, traveling to new and exotic destinations, and seeing the amazing sights and attractions is very fulfilling; however, all of that traveling is bound to…
Travel Nursing as a Single Parent
Guest Post by: Kathy Timbs. Traveling as a Single Parent When I first thought of traveling as a single parent, I had to take into consideration my 14-year-old. How was I going to be able to school her? Where would we stay? What would she do when I was at work? I researched these questions for about 6 months. Went on the Travel Gypsy Facebook page and started asking questions. I read what other parents did. There were a lot of nuclear families and only a few single parents at first. Then, as time went by, I found more. I…
Five Reasons Why EMR Conversions Make Great Travel Assignments
This article is sponsored by Travel Nurse Across America® Guest Post By: Brittany Bennett Over the years, EMR conversions have become a very popular reason to hire travel nurses. Facilities across the country are changing or upgrading their EMR systems and require an increase in staffing to perform these changes and get everyone trained on the new system. One of my very first travel assignments was an EMR conversion. I had no idea what to expect and was nervous enough being a newbie to travel nursing. Little did I know, it would be one of my better contracts and the knowledge…