
Experienced Nurses Grounded in Basics of Practice
5/11/2012
Employers Critical to Advancing Quality Workplaces
5/11/2012
A GREAT Time to be a Nurse!
5/11/2012
Nurses Seek to Optimize Care
5/11/2012
Ontario Expands Nursing Positions
5/11/2012
Dr. Judy Boychuk Duchscher has just released a book outlining her mid-range nursing theory on the professional role transition of newly graduate nurses to the 'real' world of practice. In 350 POWERFUL pages, Dr. Duchscher gives the senior nursing student, new graduate and all those who support them in practice, insights into that first year. A MUST READ for every nurse in practice!!!!!
May 18, 2012
The RN Work Project began in 2006 as a national study to track career changes among new nurses. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation until 2016, we have the unique opportunity tostudy the careers of new nurses over 10 years. RN Work Project is the only...
May 8, 2012
The Halifax NTF team did it AGAIN! One awesome Bridge Club event to start 2012. Great turn out! There were about 18 nurses & soon-to-be nurses present on April 25th at the Old Triangle Pub. What's really cool about this event was that there were soon-to-be nurses from different...
The Patronizing Hat
January 23, 2012

My manager approached me recently and asked if I would consider being a preceptor. My first reaction was, “YIKES! Really? Me? But I’m still new to this whole nursing thing myself.” But after thinking it through, I reminded myself, “You have been nursing for
Teamwork!
November 1, 2011
I remember the first time I admitted I needed help… I work on a surgical floor, which tends to be quite busy at times. After shift report my LPN partner and I divided up the pts and began our morning routine. Everything I did seemed to be taking up more time than usual that morning and
Continuing Competence
September 3, 2011
Just what we as New Graduates need in the midst of our various transition stages is to be thinking about Continuing Competence (CC)! However, those of us who are RNs are required to complete our first round of paperwork within 8 months of graduation. WOOP WOOP! Maybe not so much excitement… But if any of you
Distress Call
August 16, 2011
A few months ago, I started feeling odd. I would lay awake at night, staring at the ceiling. I always felt a little ill. Soon, anxiety kicked in, and I was wondering if I needed to go to the doctor to seek some help for a possible mental health issue. Then I realized one day going