Nurses and Plantar Fasciitis: How to Keep Your Hard-working Feet Healthy
Why that stabbing first-step heel pain happens, what the evidence says actually treats it, and how long recovery realistically takes.
The PNG Solutions blog
Practical writing for nurses and allied health professionals on travel contracts, per diem work, night shifts, burnout and getting paid what the assignment is worth.
Why that stabbing first-step heel pain happens, what the evidence says actually treats it, and how long recovery realistically takes.
Nurses work when everyone else is told to stay home. Driving in bad conditions, hospital car parks at 3am, respiratory season and the shifts nobody can leave.
Five things experienced per diem nurses do that new ones do not, from how to walk onto an unfamiliar unit to how to end up on the list schedulers call first.
Night shift is a circadian problem, not a willpower problem. What the sleep research says about light, caffeine timing and the drive home, and what actually helps.
What travel nursing is, how the pay and contracts work, what you need to qualify, and an honest account of the trade offs before you commit to a first assignment.
The holidays are the hardest stretch of the nursing year: thin staffing, high census, and patients who are frightened to be in hospital. Five things that make it survivable.
Time management on a nursing unit is really prioritisation under constant interruption. Five habits that recover real time, including the one that saves the most.