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Nursing can be a very challenging profession. Nurses are exposed to numerous stressors when working in a high stress environment.  This often times leads to anxiety and burnout.  Being a nurse for over 20 years I have realized the importance of protecting mental health and have found the humorous quotes nurses say amongst themselves to be  very effective.  This article highlights the top 4 nurses quotes of 2020 and 2021 expressed on apparel. Nurses C. Y. A We live in a very litigious society.  As nurses it is important to document everything.  I mean EVERYTHING!!!  When a nurse says C.Y.A...

The nursing profession has numerous struggles that nurses face on a daily basis.  The top five issues nurses face at work are staffing, long hours, work place hazards, work violence and bullying/harassment.  Nurses have advocated for safer staffing ratios for years and as it stands in 2019 the only state that has mandates for patient to nurse ratios is California.  This historic win sponsored by the California Nurses Association took 13 years in the making and have been in effect since 2004.  The hospital industry have been trying to overturn the law ever since.   Unless you have been living...

  The Elite Nurse is founded by the owner Melanie Angus Aiken who has been a nurse for over 20 years as well as a lover of fashion & travel.  The Elite Nurse represents the fusion of Melanie’s passion for fashion, travel and her career as nurse.  Melanie has worked in a variety of areas in nursing including neurology, orthopedics, medical surgery, telemetry, travel nursing, utilization review and nurse case management.  Nursing became my career almost by default as I always wanted to be a fashion designer growing up.  If you have Caribbean parents you will know that the entrepreneurial spirit wasn’t...