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Nurses Corner

Written for nurses, by people who understand the job. These posts go beyond certification to cover the human side of nursing — managing compassion fatigue, coping with patient loss, finding meaning on difficult days, and building a sustainable career. A space for the parts of nursing that don’t show up in a textbook.

15 05, 2026

How the Food You Deliver Effects Patient Healing – Understanding the Role of Hospital Meals in Patient Outcomes

May 15th, 2026|Education, Nurses Corner|

More Than a Meal: How the Food You Deliver Affects Whether Patients Heal When people think about patient safety, they usually think about medications, surgeries, and monitors. They don't usually think about the food tray. But research over the past two decades has made something very clear: what a patient eats — or doesn't eat — while they are in the hospital has a direct effect on how well they recover. For the men and women who prepare and [...]

1 05, 2026

The Importance of Peer Support in Healthcare – Backed by Research

May 1st, 2026|Advanced Nursing, Education, Nurses Corner, Research|

The Coworker Who Gets It: The Science Behind Peer Support in Healthcare Healthcare workers face a category of workplace stress that most professions do not. It is not just the long hours or the physical demands. It is the cumulative weight of caring for people in pain, making high-stakes decisions under time pressure, witnessing death and suffering, and carrying the emotional residue of those experiences home at the end of every shift. Formal support structures — employee assistance programs, [...]

27 04, 2026

CPR Certification Requirements for Denver Healthcare Workers

April 27th, 2026|ACLS, Advanced Nursing, BLS, CPR Training Articles, Nurses Corner, PALS|

CPR Certification Requirements for Denver Healthcare Workers: A Guide to BLS, ACLS, and PALS in the Mile High City Project Heartbeat  |  Denver, Colorado  |  7 min read If you work in healthcare in Denver, whether at UCHealth, SCL Health, Denver Health, a private clinic, or an EMS agency, maintaining current CPR and life support certifications is a condition of employment, a licensing requirement, and a patient safety mandate. Understanding which certifications apply to your specific role, which providers [...]

28 03, 2026

BLS, ACLS, and PALS in Los Angeles

March 28th, 2026|ACLS, BLS, Nurses Corner, PALS|

BLS, ACLS, and PALS in Los Angeles: Navigating Certification Requirements Across a Fragmented Health System Los Angeles is unlike any other healthcare market in the United States. With over 80 general acute care hospitals scattered across a county twice the size of Delaware, the region's health system is defined by fragmentation. County facilities, large integrated networks, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and independent practices all coexist, each operating under distinct credentialing expectations. This guide is written for nurses, physicians, respiratory [...]

23 03, 2026

Demystifying BLS, ACLS & PALS Requirements in Portland – Vancouver Metro Area

March 23rd, 2026|ACLS, Advanced Nursing, BLS, Education, Neonatal, Nurses Corner, PALS|

Demystifying BLS, ACLS & PALS Requirements in Portland - Vancouver Metro Area For nurses, paramedics, EMTs, and health professionals in Portland, Beaverton, Oregon City, and Vancouver, WA In May 2025, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and Legacy Health announced they were ending their proposed merger after an extended period of negotiations and regulatory review. As a result, the two systems continue to operate independently within the Portland–Vancouver healthcare market. The deal would have created the largest health [...]

4 03, 2020

The Yearly Influenza Shot for Nurses

March 4th, 2020|Nurses Corner|

Increasing numbers of hospitals and health care organizations started requiring certain professionals, such as doctors and nurses, to have the vaccine or risk being fired. Although a huge majority of workers opted to get the vaccine rather than lose their jobs, some simply did not want to be forced and chose to leave their workplace. But should it be required?

26 02, 2020

Gratitude in Nursing Impacts Your Body and Mind

February 26th, 2020|Nurses Corner|

Whether your patients are neonates, the elderly or somewhere in the middle, you want to give them the best care you can. While that often means gaining Continuing Education certifications, learning new skills or improving on the ones you have, it also means something much more basic. […]

29 01, 2020

Nipping Nursing Station Negativity in the Bud

January 29th, 2020|Nurses Corner|

Whether you like it or not, you spend a great deal of your life at work. In fact, it is estimated that the average person will spend over 13 years of her life at work. Because this is such a huge part of your life, you want to feel happy and fulfilled while on the job. No matter how much you love your career, the people with whom you work can quickly bring you down if they tend to be [...]

8 01, 2020

Creating More Connected Relationships with Health Care Colleagues

January 8th, 2020|Advanced Nursing, Nurses Corner, Research|

The health care profession is known for being a high-stress place in which doctors, nurses and other professionals are often put into uncomfortable situations. Disagreements between doctors and nurses are common, and nurses often struggle to create positive relationships with difficult patients. On very hard days, nurses may even find themselves at each other’s throats as their stress threatens to get out of hand. Creating healthy, connected relationships requires focus and determination. It will never happen by chance. These five [...]

3 01, 2020

Improve Your Workplace Environment: Improve Your Job Satisfaction

January 3rd, 2020|Advanced Nursing, Classes, Nurses Corner, Research|

Job satisfaction is at an all-time high this year according to The Conference Board, a non-profit research group. In 2019, 54 percent of surveyed workers said they were happy in their jobs, which was up from the 49 percent measured several years ago. These higher numbers today can generally be linked back to improved job security and better wages especially for younger workers. However, satisfaction with the job environment and with coworker interactions do not rate quite so high. While [...]

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