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What I Wish Every Family Knew About Hospice Care
After seven years as a hospice nurse, the hardest part of my job isn’t dealing with death – it’s watching families realize what hospice care actually entails. I see the same scene play out week after week: the shock, then disbelief, then panic when families understand they’ll be providing most of the hands-on care themselves.…
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Strategies for Avoiding Nurse Burnout in 2025
This year I am trying a different strategy to avoid nurse burnout. I pushed and pushed until finally I got management to agree to let me have a set schedule. It makes ALL the difference. Life is so much easier to plan out, and you don’t end up with that thing where some shifts are…
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Nursing Burnout: Work Life Balance and Reclaiming your Life
A reader writes: I’ve been working 12-hour shifts back-to-back for the past month, and last week I broke down in tears in the break room. I love being a nurse, but I’m exhausted and can’t seem to recover. How can I manage this burnout before it gets worse? First, let’s acknowledge what happened. You broke…
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Nursing Advice: How to Deal with a Challenging Coworker
Dear NursePixel: There’s a nurse on my team who constantly undermines my decisions and talks behind my back. Last week, she even questioned my competence in front of a patient. How can I address this conflict without escalating it? Let’s get real for a minute. Being a nurse is tough enough without having to deal…
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Some Ideas for a Healthcare Dashboard
When I’m at work, I sometimes think about having the perfect healthcare dashboard. I use EPIC at work, and for the most part it’s adequate. But the dashboard that I see each day when I open EPIC is not useful to me at all. I’m not able to easily customize it, and so I just…