A growing number of nurses and other healthcare workers have been fired from their jobs for postings on social media sites deemed to violate patient

I once heard someone say, “Life is not boring; people are boring.” The implication is that if someone feels bored, it is his or her own

I recently came across the Florence Nightingale pledge, the one I took 35 years ago when I graduated from a hospital-based diploma nursing program. When reading it

We in the nursing profession spend a lot of time reading clinical journals and books. But an equal amount of time needs to be devoted

While recently speaking at a nursing conference, the speaker before me was trying to make the point that nurses don’t support each other. One more sweeping

My life has been spinning out of control. The entire last year has been particularly “full” with business activities, new products and projects (I worked on

I just watched the premier of the newest medical drama “Mercy” on NBC which seems to focus on the lives of several key nursing characters.

I’m finally on Twitter www.twitter.com/donnacardillorn and Facebook  http://www.facebook.com/donna.wilkcardillo. Have been on LinkedIn  but am now actually using it. Twitter is interesting and amazing and I’m

My latest book, A Daybook for Beginning Nurses is hot off the presses. It was written for new graduates to inspire, motivate, and inform. There

There seems to be a shortage of nursing jobs, as opposed to a shortage of nurses, for the time being. I am receiving many, many

There is an interesting article on lemondrop.com by Laura Gilbert about the recent “run” of TV dramas featuring a nurse as the main character. She begs

While speaking at an association meeting (non-nursing) someone came up to me and said, “Do you help nurses who want to get out of nursing??”