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11 articles on this topic from the PNG Solutions blog.
Ten shoes worth the money for twelve hours on hard floors, sorted by the problem each one solves rather than ranked one to ten. Plus what to buy if you are on your second pair this year.
Median RBT tenure is about a year, and it is usually the employer rather than the work. The warning signs in the posting, the interview and the first month, and which ones are worth leaving over.
Burnout is a workplace condition with a clinical definition, not a personal failing. What it does to patient outcomes, why resilience training misses the point, and what actually helps.
Practical habits that survive a twelve hour shift, from sleep and hydration to knowing when the problem is the job rather than you.
Nursing has one of the highest rates of musculoskeletal injury of any occupation. What the biomechanics research actually shows about safe lifting, and why technique alone is not enough.
How to buy shoes for twelve hours on hard floors: arch type, fit timing, when to replace them, and why the most recommended brand is often the wrong one for your foot.
Per diem gives you control over your schedule and then quietly takes it back through cancellations and income anxiety. How to hold onto the flexibility you took the job for.
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.
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.
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.
