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How to cope during layoffs
A Q&A with Jim DeMaria, RN Layoffs. Inflation. Recession. Economic meltdown. “The worst financial crisis in a generation.” These are all things that are being said about the state of the American...
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Why don’t insurers focus more on preventive care?
Most of us do what we can to prevent things from happening to us in our everyday lives. We wash our hands. We brush our teeth. We wear sunblock. We wear seatbelts. All of these are preventive...
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Nurse Jackie: A male nurse’s perspective
Image: BananaStock | Thinkstock + ShowtimeI’d like to shift gears this month and talk about something a bit lighter in content. Nurse Jackie is the new show on Showtime that features Edie Falco (of The...
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Layoffs – what’s old is new
We asked Jim DeMaria of Renal Care Registered Nursing Services to draw a parallel between the layoffs of the 90′s and today, and what we can learn from them during these economic hard times. Scrubs:...
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Zen and the art of male nurse maintenance
The cliché “Take time to stop and smell the roses” has never been more applicable than it is today. With cell phones, pagers, email and text messaging, it seems like we always have to talk to somebody...
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Nurses – A political force
We’re living in one of the most rhetorically volatile, divisive and partisan political climates in recent memory. With lobbyists, political action committees and other special interest groups all...
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Scrubs fashion: What looks good on a male nurse?
I find the words “men’s fashion” in nursing rather intriguing. I’m a T-shirt-and-jeans kind of guy, so “fashion” isn’t something I generally pay much attention to. That said, as a so-called “male...
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10 DOs and DON’Ts a travel nurse can teach us
Image: rubberball | Getty Images So you’ve thought about becoming a traveling nurse. You ’ve imagined yourself basking under the desert skies of Arizona, frolicking on the sun-soaked beaches of Los...
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How do I deal with ‘end of life’?
We witness death in the course of our work, many of us daily. As professionals who must soldier on through the heartbreak of this ultimate loss, we can become immune to the inevitability of our own...
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3 male nurse myths
image: Wong Illustration/iStock Exclusive/Getty Images When I first decided to enter the nursing profession, I really had no idea what I was getting into. I hadn’t grown up wanting to be a nurse, nor...
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