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Home Health Nurse
This week, one nurse shares her journey working in the hospital during the COVID pandemic before burning out and deciding to try working in home health. We also discuss the EPA and HHS actions against microplastics, how increased health costs may shape midterms, and a new discovery linking hypertension and high cortisol.
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Urology Surgery Nurse
This week, one nurse shares how she went from film school back to nursing in her early 30s, plus new research on osteoarthritis and Alzheimer’s, health misinformation trends, and a nursing role paying up to $196/hour.
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Home Health Nurse
This week, one nurse tells of her journey from working in the medical field in the navy, then becoming a floor nurse turned pandemic travel nurse before finally landing at home-health care where she found a better pace of work for her.
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Chemo & PCU Nurse
This progressive care and chemo-certified nurse navigating is a new mom—early mornings, 12-hour shifts, and a carefully balanced routine that makes it all work. We also share the latest jobs, and cover blocks to HHS changes to childhood vaccines, a Salmonella outbreak linked to moringa powder, and how Costco is helping make IVF treatment more affordable.
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Travel Nurse
This week one nurse shares her story from pipetting in a lab to travel nursing across the Pacific North West. We also talk about extended postpartum coverage in Wisconsin, a judge's ruling on RFK Jr. overstepping legal authority, as well as a recall for children's ibuprofen.
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School Nurse
This week, one nurse talks about all the schooling that brought her from esthetician to public health nurse working with high schoolers. We also discuss how 30% of adults use AI chatbot for health information, why the White House is still not Sready to nominate a CDC director, and how traditional therapies for knee pain might work better than drugs.
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RN Health Advocate
This nurse shares how her freelance dance career helps her find balance with her full-time remote nursing job. We also talk about the largest measles outbreak in 20 years, Alex Pretti's death ruled to be a homicide, and information on the rate Nipah virus outbreak in India.
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Travel PCU Nurse
One nurse shares her journey to from travel nursing in Maui to becoming a Nurse Practitioner. We also discuss Dr. Oz's recommendation for the measles vaccine, free childcare program announced in San Francisco, as well as how AI may reduce the risk of breast cancer.
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Nurse Advocate
This week, one nurse shares how she dreamt of being a health advocate before she even knew the role existed. We also discuss the wave of nurse strikes sweeping the country, hospital layoffs hitting floors nationwide as federal funding cuts take hold, and a measles outbreak that's already spread across 24 states.
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PCU Nurse
This week, one nurse shares how a healthy culture on her unit positively shapes her work life. We also discuss reinforcements sent to the South Carolina measles outbreak, the surgeon general nomination hearing, as well as news of the world's tiniest pacemaker.
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Pre-Operative Nurse
This week, one nurse shares how a rejection from an OR residency led her to a pre-op role where she found her favorite specialty yet — and how prioritizing travel keeps her motivated to show up every shift.
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Clinical Nurse Consultant
This week, one nurse shares how learning to regulate her autonomic nervous system using heart rate variability tools from the HeartMath program helped her recover from burnout and build a career centered on presence and compassionate care.
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Etsy Educational Nurse
One nurse shares her journey working in pediatric medicine and choosing to transfer to PACU for work-life balance. We also talk about the super flu surge in NYC, how aged cheese might lower risk for dementia, and this year's winner of audiobook of the year is a story on Tuberculosis.
This week, one nurse shares her journey through PACU education before launching an Etsy store for nursing education. We also discuss the newly released dietary guidelines, two new subtypes of MS, and a new option for at-home pap smear testing.
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NICU Nurse
Welcome to Nurse Ascent, a twice-weekly newsletter created by nurses for nurses. This week, one nurse shares how she felt intimated by the legal process before teaching herself to become a legal nurse consultant and career coach to new nurses.
This week, one nurse tells the story of falling into the NICU specialty accidentally and loving it. We also discuss updates on the largest nursing strike in NYC history, a new milestone for cancer survival, as well as a $556M settlement made by Kaiser.
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Nurse Writing Coach
This nurse shares her story of burning out from patient care before becoming a health writer and coach to other freelance writers. We also talk about the killing of an ICU nurse at Minneapolis protests, restoring $2 billion in funding for mental health, and a new study on the decrease in cancer deaths but a rise of colon cancer.
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Pediatric ICU Nurse
One nurse shares her journey working in pediatric medicine and choosing to transfer to PACU for work-life balance. We also talk about the super flu surge in NYC, how aged cheese might lower risk for dementia, and this year's winner of audiobook of the year is a story on Tuberculosis.
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Legal Nurse Consultant
Welcome to Nurse Ascent, a twice-weekly newsletter created by nurses for nurses. This week, one nurse shares how she felt intimated by the legal process before teaching herself to become a legal nurse consultant and career coach to new nurses.
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Clinical Nurse Consultant
This week, one nurse shares her background in care management and clinical education and how that has translated into her current role as a nurse consultant for patients with intellectual disabilities. We also discuss drops in vaccination recommendations, flu hospitalizations reaching a record high, and a French ban on forever chemicals.
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Rural Nurse Practitioner
This week one nurse shares about her recent retirement from working in rural health and transitioning to life abroad as a health writer. We also discuss how nursing was removed from the federal list of professionals, hospital strikes, and the strain on rural healthcare.
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ER & PACU Travel Nurse
This nurse shares the value in choosing her own assignment scheduling via travel nursing. We also talk about a recall on cheese due to metal fragments, changes to pediatric hepatitis B vaccines, and how global efforts in vaccination have lowered measles.
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RN Patient Advocate
This week one nurse shares in the freedom in flexibility as a remote patient advocate. We also discuss a vote for continued ACA subsidies, a growing measles outbreak, as well as a physician who is teaching how to prevent the cycle of shame in healthcare.
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Quality Control Nurse
One nurse tells the story of how she said yes to opportunities in new specialties and learned to make those jobs her own. We also talk about a global increase in COVID cases, notices for 50% SNAP benefits, and toy MRI scanners for anxiety reduction.
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Addiction Nurse
This week one nurse shares about how she gives back to community by working as a certified addiction nurse after her own struggles with addiction as a teenager. We also discuss recent outbreaks of listeria and infant botulism as well as a new enamel-growing gel for teeth.
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Dean of Nursing
This nurse shares her story of nearly being kicked out of nursing school to now being a leader and advocate in nursing education. We also share available jobs, and discuss a $7 billion settlement from Purdue Pharma and using menstrual blood to diagnose conditions.
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Labor & Delivery Nurse
This week, a nurse shares how she's known she wanted to work with babies since childhood and her journey to getting just there. We also share results from our recent feedback survey and highlight nurse staffing finally being recognized as a national performance goal.
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Orthopedic/Urology Nurse
This week, one nurse shares her growth after making a move to train as charge on her busy floor at the hospital. We also talk about global affects caused by the cuts to funding malaria prevention, how shingles vaccines may reduce dementia rates, and how a woman played the clarinet during brain surgery.
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Emergency Nurse
This week, one nurse shares her story of pursing a second career in nursing after discovering she didn't love her 9-5 job working in mathematics. We also talk about an end to SNAP benefits amid the government shutdown, another closing Planned Parenthood, and how Jon Bon Jovi's "pay it forward" kitchen is helping federal workers afford meals.
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Psychiatric Nurse
This nurse shares how her nursing interventions include a lot more chatting with patients on the behavioral health unit. We also share new job opportunities, and discuss the recent chaos erupting in the CDC, continued changes in COVID vaccine eligibility, and the AHA's updates to heart health recommendations.
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Clinical Research Nurse
This week, one nurse shares how she left behind 7 years of night shift in order to pursue a job working remotely in clinical research. We also discuss changes to access to telehealth in the US, how Pfizer may offer to lower prices to certain drugs, as well as a shampoo that helps chemo patients not lose their hair
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Cardiac Nurse
This nurse shares her way of finding a rhythm on a busy med-surg floor by challenging herself to better her time-management skills. We also share changes to Medicare with the government shut down, the CDC's newest update on the seasonal COVID vaccines, as well as this years Nobel Prize in medicine.
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Fertility Nurse
This nurse talks about finding a job that helped her regain hope and positivity in health care. We also discuss recent demands for the HHS Secretary to resign, west coast states taking vaccine recommendations into their own hands, and the EU's newest drug to help prevent HIV.
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Infusion Nurse
This week, one nurse shares her story of receiving a cancer diagnoses, going through treatment, and meeting her future coworkers along the way. We also discuss Chagas disease, the notable decline in overall vaccination, and a new glue to help fix broken bones.
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RN Program Coordinator
This nurse shares the bittersweet feeling of leaving a job she loved so she could get her quality of life back. We also share a Trump administration announcement regarding Tylenol & autism, updates from the vaccine advisory board, and a free vending machine for your personal health and hygiene needs.
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OR Nurse
This week, a nurse shares her passion for patient advocacy in the OR, leading her to implement multiple programs for her team. We also share job opportunities, and cover incoming funding to women's health
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IV Infusion Nurse
One nurse shares how she finds a way to pamper patients while treating their chronic health conditions. We also share available nursing jobs, and cover the end of the Texas measles outbreak, the mental health benefits of a wolf dog playdate, and findings of potentially radioactive shrimp
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Hospice Nurse
This week, one nurse shares her story behind going from art school graduate to hospice nurse. She now works on-call shifts for 60+ hours straight to ensure hospice patients have the around the clock care they need.
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CRNA Nurse
This week, one nurse shares her story of deciding to be a CRNA at a her high school's football team tailgate party. We also cover the CBO's final estimate of the price of healthcare cuts, COVIDs summer surge & how LA County is helping its residents erase medical debt.
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Medical-Surgical Nurse
This week, a night nurse shares reflections after celebrating a decade as an RN and what inspires her to care for others. We also cover recent wins from a Planned Parenthood lawsuit, the effects of vaccine program cuts & how one homeless shelter is managing alcoholism by prescribing beer and wine
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NICU Nurse
This nurse shares her deep hesitancy towards nursing during her BSN program, until luck landed her in an internship that changed her mind forever. We also discuss the United State's plan to burn $10 million in contraceptives and ACOG's divestment from federal funding.
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PACU Nurse
One nurse shares her growing journey in PACU as well as her passion for nurse advocacy through working on a hospital committee. We also cover growing confusion around vaccine guidance and the latest proposed Medicaid cuts under Trump’s new bill.
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L&D Nurse
One labor and delivery nurse shares how a winding path—from biochemistry to biotech to bedside—led her to a role she loves. We also cover the U.S.’s worst measles outbreak in decades and the rise of temporary healthcare staffing across hospitals nationwide.
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CRNA Student
One nurse who juggled travel nursing and raising her 2 young children while prepping for CRNA school. We also cover some abrupt changes made to preventative health policy by new HHS secretary RFK Jr. & a passion project of two teens to support cancer research.
Tools for Stress Relief
Breaking down 5 simple daily practices to implement to better support the mind and body while coping with stress.
The Vagus Nerve & Stress Response
Understanding how the longest nerve in our body affects the quality of our mental and emotional wellbeing & what mind-body practices to do to support it.
Nutrients that Help Cope with Stress
Learn about which foods have the nutrients that better support the nervous system and stress response
Are Rates of Dengue Fever Rising in the US?
Understanding the process of dengue fever as it has recently come to the forefront of attention for some in the US as cases are surging around the world
Is the Amygdala Hijacking your Inner Peace?
The amygdala is the part of the brain that activates us for survival mechanism, but what happens internally when it’s overreacting to the little things?
Are People Who Live Near the Ocean Actually Healthier & Happier?
Many people seek out the sea as a place to relax and restore, especially during vacation, but is there science to back up the many rumored benefits of ocean air?
Coping with ADHD with Mindfulness Practice
Mindfulness practices are known to ease stress and anxiety by supporting the nervous system. Can the same practices help with focus for those with ADHD?
The Science of Breath
How the act of conscious and controlled breath is one tool we can use to influence our autonomic nervous system and, in turn, our state of mind.
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