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See How to Get Off the Nursing School Waitlist
Your dream nursing degree program has just wait-listed you. What do you do next? We can guide you through what to do in the meantime and even get you off the waitlist and into your career…
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Can You Take an Accelerated Nurse Practitioner Program Online?
Many nurse practitioner programs can be completed online. Others can be done online in just a year. Learn which schools have accelerated online NP programs online and how you can gain admission and graduate.
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Mental Health & Wellness for Nursing Students
Nursing school can be tough. Many students report periods of stress, anxiety, or depression while navigating everything from admissions to the NCLEX. Learn how to manage these challenges yourself, and how to get help should your self-care efforts fall short.
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6 Tips for Success in Your Online Social Work Program
Online learning, whether your initial choice or the result of the pandemic, requires a different set of skills than in-person learning. In a discipline with the word “social” in its name, the idea of socially distanced or completely virtual social work courses may sound counterintuitive…
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Online Learning 101: Zoom Clinicals
For students across the country and around the globe, the coming school year probably looks different than what you’d envisioned. With COVID-19 changing the way we go about our daily routines, including work and school, students will have some serious adapting to do in the year to come. This can be especially true for students working toward healthcare degrees…
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Finding Belonging
Late each summer, like clockwork, a first-year medical student will, having met with me for therapy a few times, start to share their anxiety about the friendship clusters that are forming. “People already have their group for the library and are already getting drinks and brunch…
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A Health Professional’s Guide to Surviving Self-Isolation
As a healthcare worker, self-isolation is a necessary practice in preventing the spread of viruses that can pass illness to your loved ones and community members. And while some of us healthcare professionals may be familiar with occasional self-isolation, most have not experienced it to the scale we are dealing with now during the Coronavirus pandemic…
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Medical Careers for People Who Are Afraid of Blood
When we become curious about a career in healthcare, we think of the human body, and then our mind may drift to blood, and for some of us, the buck stops there. Blood injury injection phobia (BII) affects approximately 3-4% of the population, however, that doesn’t mean that affected individuals can’t have a successful and prolific career in the healthcare industry…
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5 Helpful Hobbies for Healthcare Professionals
As a healthcare professional, you probably spend long hours at work, and it goes without saying that sometimes you just need to unwind. Hobbies are a wonderful way to connect with yourself and help take your mind off the often-stressful days…
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9 Best Books for Healthcare Students & Professionals
We can all learn from those who came before us, and reading books by the experts is a great way to absorb ideas and skills to implement in our studies or practice. As a healthcare student, while your curriculum may be full of assigned reading, these titles are a good way to branch out a little from classroom-based learning to come to better understand practicing in your field…
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10 Best Podcasts for Healthcare Students & Professionals
Training and working in the healthcare field is often busy, to say the least, and yet, students and providers alike want to continue their education, both in formal settings and on the go. Podcasts have quickly become an excellent medium for condensing specialized knowledge into episodic chapters that can fit within the frame of your existing activities…
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7 Tips for Healthcare Professionals Struggling with an Eating Disorder
Eating disorders are among the most prevalent mental health diagnoses, with an estimated 1 in 10 women and 1 in 15 men struggling during some point in their lifetimes.
Eating disorders have the second highest mortality rate of any mental illness, surpassed only by opioid addiction, and even after seeking or receiving treatment, maintaining progress is difficult…
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6 Steps to Managing Microaggressions in a Healthcare Workplace
As well-intentioned as healthcare professionals are, discrimination still occurs in the workplace. While some examples of discrimination and oppression are overt, many take the form of microaggressions. Especially in healthcare, where employee conflicts can impact patient outcomes, engaging in productive practices for managing microaggressions is beneficial for everyone…