Welcome to Thrive Nurse Life

No one warns you that nursing comes with a side of emotional whiplash. One minute you’re adjusting a nasal cannula and chatting about a patient’s cat, the next you’re compressing someone’s chest while...

It’s 2:37 a.m. The trauma bay is finally quiet(ish), and you have approximately six minutes to eat before something inevitably beeps, bleeds, or both. You open your locker—or worse, the communal...

How to Survive (and Even Thrive) in the Chaos Nursing is not for the faint of heart. It’s a career where you can go from holding a patient’s hand during their worst moment to dodging bodily fluids...

You know that feeling when you finally clock out after a 12-hour shift, shoes glued to your feet with some mystery fluid, your stomach running purely on caffeine and hope? You get to your car, sit for...

You’ve been running around for six hours, your bladder is on the verge of declaring an emergency, and you just finished charting notes that look suspiciously like ancient hieroglyphics...

Your Body is a Tool—Keep It from Falling Apart It’s hour ten of your twelve-hour shift. You’ve already lifted three patients, hauled an overstuffed linen bag down the hall, and performed an...