What the Health

Fill Your Prescriptions Without Draining the Bank

No matter your age, gender, Twilight team [Go Team Jacob] or overall health status, we will ALL require a medication prescription at some point in our lives. These medications can be CRAZY expensive! As a travel nurse, I sometimes temporarily lose my health insurance throughout the year when I take more than 24 days off …

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Nursing

“Tell Me Baby”: Advice for Brand-New Nurses

As the temperatures start to cool off and the kiddos all go back to school, the season for freshly graduated nurses starting out their careers has also commenced. You guys have worked WICKED HARD for YEARS at this point and you deserve a huge congrats!! You should be so proud of yourselves and know that …

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Personal

My List of Unpopular Opinions

It’s been almost 6 months since I started this journey to make The Wandering Nurse Blog a success! If you know me in real life, you know I am a bit of a dichotomy in a lot of areas of my life. You should probably know by now that I am a travel ER/Trauma RN, …

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Personal

Rachel Hollis is a Goddess: My RISE Experience

“You were built for the audacity of the dreams in your heart!” YOU GUYS…last week I had the most incredible, life-changing, powerful experience of my adult life. After working two 12-hour night shifts in a row, I hopped in my car and drove myself to Portland on no sleep. Alaska Air got me through a …

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Personal

Tinderella Training: Navigating Online Dating

Tinder, Hinge, Coffee Meets Bagel, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid…the list goes on and on. For single adults in 2019, it is almost a requirement to be on at least one dating app or website. Why is this? For me personally, dating apps take the place of going out to a bar to meet other singles near …

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Personal

Empower Yourself: Negotiating in the Workplace

Women are incredible. We are strong, resilient, considerate, loving, and usually the glue of our families who hold everything together. Women posses so many positive qualities and are a huge part of today’s workforce, however, we continue to be paid less than a man for the same work and are often passed over for promotions. …

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Adventure

Welcome to Portland (OR): A Weekend Guide

At 30 years old, true surprises in life come few and far between. This April I was lucky enough to get an incredible gift from my best friend Sam that included an amazing surprise. For my birthday gift, she got me a freaking VACATION ya’ll. And here’s the best part–I didn’t find out where we …

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