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

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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Adventure

Hey, Chicago! What do you say: A Weekend Guide

In June of 2018, after discovering my friend Amber had never been to Chicago, I put together the most touristy itinerary possible to introduce her to my FAVORITE major city! What turned out to be an extremely HOT (temps in the 90s…help me, this Northerner is melting) weekend also proved to be very fun. Whether …

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What the Health

Triage, Trauma and Tattoos

“How can you be afraid of shots?? You have tattoos!” -People who don’t have tattoos As your resident tatted up nurse, it is pretty obvious that I love body ink. Clearly, I’m not alone. According to several sources floating around, anywhere from 20-40% of Americans are rocking tattoos today. With the stigma of tattoos disappearing …

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Nursing

Travel Nursing in a Nutshell

So you think you want to start travel nursing? YOU SHOULD!!! Travel nursing offers so many amazing benefits–seeing the country while getting paid a metric shit ton (compared to permanent positions), the rare opportunity to experience SO many different types of management/patients/trauma situations (heart attacks and strokes are pretty run of the mill no matter …

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