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Use It Before You Lose It: A Year-End Career Audit for Nurses

The last weeks of the year are when tuition dollars reset, certifications creep toward expiration and annual reviews arrive. Here is a practical year-end career audit for nurses, covering education benefits, license and certification renewals, documenting your accomplishments, and open enrollment and FSA deadlines.

Entertainment

The Break Room Price Index | What Things Cost Now vs. Ten Years Ago (and the One Price That Never Moved)

Gas, coffee, the post-shift Big Mac and the break room soda stash all cost a lot more than they did a decade ago, and The Break Room Price Index tracks how much using real data from the EIA, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and The Economist. Along with a few laughs, you'll find budgeting moves built for a nurse's schedule, from budgeting on base pay to packing the night-shift meal before the craving hits. You'll also find the one line item that hasn't budged: when your facility subscribes to MyERS, every CE contact hour you earn costs you $0.

Decision-Making

Deciding With Incomplete Information: Triage Lessons From Emergency Nurses That Every Nurse Can Use

Timed for Emergency Nurses Week (October 11–17, 2026), this post translates the core skill of ED triage into lessons every nurse can use: making sound decisions before all the facts are in. Drawing on the Emergency Severity Index, the Pediatric Assessment Triangle, and research on nurses' "worry factor," it shows how to sort patients by urgency rather than diagnosis, trust and articulate the across-the-room "sick vs. not sick" impression, and recognize high-risk presentations that look deceptively benign. It also covers guarding against anchoring and premature closure, setting if-then triggers for reassessment, communicating uncertainty with SBAR, CUS, and the two-challenge rule, and documenting clinical reasoning. The post closes with setting-specific guidance and a quick-reference checklist.

Nurse Health

Clearing the Residue | A Recovery Plan for Nurses After Hard Shifts, Hard Deaths, and Hard Conversations

An evidence-informed toolkit for nurses carrying the moral residue of difficult outcomes, family conflicts, and resource constraints. Building on our May mental health spotlight, it covers real-time recognition with the Moral Distress Thermometer, rituals like The Pause, hot and cool debriefs, ready-to-use boundary scripts, peer-support models such as RISE and the Three-Tier Model, and AACN's 4 A's framework. It also includes setting-specific guidance for ICU, ED, oncology, pediatrics, and med-surg nurses.

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Latest from our blog

Use It Before You Lose It: A Year-End Career Audit for Nurses

The Break Room Price Index | What Things Cost Now vs. Ten Years Ago (and the One Price That Never Moved)

Deciding With Incomplete Information: Triage Lessons From Emergency Nurses That Every Nurse Can Use

Clearing the Residue | A Recovery Plan for Nurses After Hard Shifts, Hard Deaths, and Hard Conversations

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