Amelia Roberts, RN, is a care coordinator, founder and CEO of Solutions by Amelia, and Nursegrid Ambassador.
Burnout is one of worst things that can happen to you as a nurse. Blood, guts, and gore — these things don’t phase us. But, burnout? It’s that one thing that can make you take off your scrubs and never want to wear them again.
What is the ideal nurse-patient ratio? What are the errors that begin to occur when staffing breeches that magic number?
To show our appreciation for nurses, and in an effort to get nurses’ feedback to make our product even better, we are offering a fully catered party to one lucky hospital department!
As nurses and healthcare providers we are constantly busy caring for others, but it’s important to remember to practice self-care.
Creating and keeping track of a work schedule as a nurse is daunting and antiquated. A group of nurses in Portland, Oregon, were so fed up with outdated scheduling technology that they set out to make a change. Their creation: Nursegrid.
Happy National Nurses Week! This week and every week, we’re proud to support nurses and the entire nursing profession.
The NCLEX and I had some good times and some bad times, but mainly just spent a lot of time together. Here are my “8 Rules” if you want to pass the NCLEX- no matter how many questions it takes.
Now you and your colleagues can show your team pride (and Nursegrid love) to the world – and have a little fun doing it.
The Nursegrid team is heading to the Emergency Nurses Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles. In honor of this event, I sat down with our Founder and CEO Joe Novello, a former ED nurse himself, to relive some of his best–and worst–times in the ED.
A lot of you have expressed interest in Nursegrid offering you more flexible ways to schedule personal events that impact your professional life. This week we’ve released an update to Nursegrid Mobile that offers you more flexibility and choice in event types.
Congratulations, you’re engaged! You feel connected, supported, appreciated, and heard—happy to put your energy into a relationship that promises positive returns. Shouldn’t that be how nurses feel at work? So often, though, they say they feel the opposite.
At Nursegrid, we want to help you take back time so you can focus on what really matters at work and in life. Nurses are pretty social people; it’s part of what makes them interested and successful in a career focused on delivering excellent care to their patients.
Nursegrid team member Zach Smith, RN provides a thoughtful response to recent comments made by hosts of The View about nurses.
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News is a business news magazine serving the institutional long-term care field. Thanks to McKnight’s for their review of Nursegrid’s new communication solution.
Nursegrid announced today the release of a new communication platform designed to directly connect nurse managers with their staff to streamline communication, manage schedule changes and credentialing of staff.
We reached an exciting milestone at Nursegrid recently – over 1,000,000 personal work shifts have been entered into the mobile application – and we’re on track to process almost double that by the end of the year.
Nursegrid is pleased to announce the release of our new native Android application. The launch of the Android app ensures easy access to Nursegrid for all nurses across the country. The Android application contains all the features of the popular iOS application.
Nursegrid heads to Chicago for the one and only HIMSS 2015 Annual Exhibition & Conference. Hear the highlights of our favorite moments and companies!
Nurse scheduling issues impact nurses in hospitals around the country every day. Schedules don’t have to be a source of frustration for nurses.
Ruining TV shows? No decency for non-nurses? In a world of ubiquitously worst roommates, nurses have lived with and have been the bane of roommate existence.
Nurses, you may find yourself on sites such as Pinterest and Facebook, but ever explored LinkedIn for nurses? See what nurse Erica MacDonald has to say!
There are so many resources for nursing students out there, it can be hard to keep up! Read our favorite places online for nursing students to go!
Celebrating the public Nursegrid app launch! Nursegrid is an app to help nurses manage their schedules and communicate with each other.
Whether you’re a stethoscope minimalist or a utility belter there is plenty of nurse flare to express yourself and have some fun.
No matter how long you’ve been in scrubs, patients passing is a part of the role of a nurse. Read more about dealing with death as a nurse from a veteran.
Stop dreading the inevitable nurse shift swap! The latest Nursegrid feature makes shift-swapping easier than ever. Never again have an island shift!
Find all your coworkers also using the app with this nifty Nursegrid Feature. From the workplace to department, you can connect with your team in an instant!
The Nursegrid contest raffle winner is announced. Thanks to all that participated.
If you know a nurse or are a nurse, you know that nurses talk dirty. Watch this video and experience the nurse talk that we all love or hate.
As a nurse, there are always opportunities to travel with the job. Whether or not you are in fact a travel nurse, find out your next travel assignment!
Read more about the incredible nurse, Elizabeth Scala, who recently published her latest book, Nursing From Within.
Nurse Reforms have been part of the nurse world for quite some time. But this is only the beginning of something greater for nurses. Read more on our blog!
Hospital Unit Clerks have a very specific job role that, frankly, only other unit clerks understand. If you are or know a unit clerk, read more!
Please, for all that is good in the world, do not assign me an Island Shift. We all know that the dreaded Island Shift should be avoided at all costs.
Portland is smaller by deal size and volume, but it can’t be overlooked as a thriving pad for startups and entrepreneurship.
This sexy ebola costume has been raising eyebrows for everyone. As a team of nurses, we can’t help but weigh in on the discussion.
Nursegrid has taken an in-depth look at the barriers to healthcare innovation. Read more about those in healthcare that are innovating through technology!
The multiple stakeholder environment and other barriers exist with regards to healthcare innovation. Read more in the second part of our innovation series.
Nursegrid looks to bring technology and healthcare innovation into hospitals. This is a look at the challenges and hurdles Nursegrid and healthcare face.
As a medical professional, your role is to treat the suffering and heal the sick, yet patients continue to inhibit this with lies. Read a personal testimony.
If you’re a nurse who has a driving passion beyond the hospital, you too may be a Multi-Job Nurse. Read more about Zach’s experience as a Multi-Job Nurse!
Watch a day in the life of a nurse when not in the workplace. Think that a nurse’s duties and responsibilities end when leaving the hospital? Think again.
The growing shortage of nurses in the US is not being addressed on a national scale. However, the solution starts at the source with nursing education.
Every nurse has a super power, but does every nurse have a mutant power? Read which X-Men the Nursegrid Team believes would be the best mutant nurse!
Join the Nursegrid team at this year’s HealthTech Conference 2014 down in San Mateo, California! Enjoy the latest news on technology and entrepreneurship.
Ever heard of DOC? ER Dr. Aloysius Fobi describes a first encounter with the little-known drugs, and the even lesser known terrible side effects witnessed.
If you’ve ever wondered about the various upsides to the nursing profession, Zach Smith is here to walk you through the various perks of being a nurse.
Have you worked as a nurse? Have you worked in a kitchen? Alex Calvert explores the similarities in both jobs and how nurse skills can be developed in both.
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