Nurse Insights

At OHN, we’re always eager to expand our knowledge. Our blog Nurse Insights brings current learnings, stories, and insights every two weeks from professionals in the field of nursing. Check it out!

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By: Samantha Huron BSN, RN, CCRN   Have you ever thought about going back to school to get an advanced practice nursing degree, but haven’t decided which profession is the one for you? Well, you are not alone and I am here to tell you about a day in the life of a student registered … Continue reading “A Day in the Life of a SRNA”

By: Mallori Walker MSN, RN, CPNP Professionally, I am a pediatric nurse practitioner, a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion advocate, and a nursing educator. In my professional work space, I am 1 of 1. I have been told by a patient that they did not want me to provide their care because of the color of my … Continue reading “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace”

By: Paige Randolph, FNP-C I’ve thought long and hard about when I was first introduced to the concept of nurse abuse, and I don’t think I truly understood it until it happened to me. In nursing school, I had this vision that it would be all sugar plums and rainbows when I would eventually interact … Continue reading “Nursing: A Dangerous Profession?”

By Carolyn Minks, FNP Raise your hand if you ever heard any of your nursing cohort announce that they wanted to work in Med-Surg when they graduated. I’ll wait. The answers in my class (from day ONE) went something like: ICU, PICU, NICU, pediatric oncology, ICU, PICU, PICU, ED. I quickly adopted my own answer … Continue reading “From ICU to Home Health: How Did I Know I Wasn’t Where I Belonged?”

By: Anonymous ICU Nurse Manager Get in, sit down, mask off…breathe.  As I sanitize my hands, I exhale the stress of the day while listening to the silence of my car.  The COVID ICU is loud.  These thirty seconds of silence at the end of my day are my favorite.  It’s here that relief, anger … Continue reading “Managing a Pandemic”

By: Hannah Lease BSN, RN Have you made the decision to go to school for nursing and are worrying about how you’re going to survive?  You are not alone, my friend!   A quick little backstory about me… I recently graduated from a 16-month accelerated BSN program in December and took my NCLEX in early February.  … Continue reading “Surviving Nursing School and Beyond: Mental Health Edition”

By Brittney L Wallace, BSN, RN After seven months of floating around the hospital and working the frontline, COVID finally got me. I had awful body aches, excruciating headaches, and chills for over a week. On day ten, it was like a light switch—I felt like my old self again, which meant: it was time … Continue reading “The Day I Got My Label”

Paige Randolph, FNP-C When anxiety sets in, I feel emotionally smothered. It becomes hard to concentrate, to feel emotion, or even think clearly enough to get through day to day tasks. From March to May of 2020 I was working in a major hospital COVID ICU with thirty-six beds. I have never been one to … Continue reading “Feeling Smothered: One Morning in a COVID ICU”

By Renee DuShane, RN I remember saying to myself, “just get up and leave!” before the door opened. Get out of the therapist’s office, go down the office park stairs, and leave, never return. Seeing a therapist came with an overwhelming somatic discomfort that I could only describe as inadequacy. I’d felt it often in … Continue reading “An Anxious Nurse Finds Her Voice”

By Jenna Hoyt BSN, RN When I first decided I wanted to work as a nurse in Australia I was completely overwhelmed by the whole process. You need letters from every previous employer, certified copies of pretty much every form of ID, a letter from each board of nursing you’re registered with (a nightmare for … Continue reading “Travel Nursing in Australia”