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Why your nursing license is literal gold

Note from Beth: My apologies. The newsletter I sent earlier contained placeholder information. I don't know why. But one thing I do know is this: succeeding as a solopreneur requires looking stupid at least 1% of the time. I do it at least 5% of the time because I'm an overachiever. :-D Please en...

Jul 01, 2026 beyond the bedside freelance writing business nurse identity

Why nurse writers still win in an AI world

Affiliate Nurses write better than most. Grammarly helps. Clear, confident writing wins clients. Grammarly keeps your copy tight — especially when you're on deadline after a long shift. Get Grammarly free → Start With This "We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond ...

Jun 24, 2026 ai freelance writing business workflow

The email I won't answer

Start With This “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” — Alice Walker, novelist and essayist Something Worth Knowing The Editorial Freelancers Association's published rate ranges, drawn from their member rate survey, put medical writing at roughl...

Jun 17, 2026 boundaries freelance writing business pricing

All of It Counts

Start With This “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”— Maya Angelou, poet and memoirist Something Worth Knowing Health literacy is now recognized as a core skill of professional nursing practice, and a 2023 scoping review in Frontiers in Public Health found that...

Jun 10, 2026 freelance writing business nurse identity skills

What 26 years inside this industry has taught me

Start with This “I write to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.” — Joan Didion, essayist and journalist Something Worth Knowing The U.S. medical writing market was valued at roughly $1.2 billion in 2025 and is projected to grow at a compound annual rat...

Jun 03, 2026 freelance writing business getting started health writing

That is also called an article

Start with This Nurses document everything. Subjective data. Objective data. Assessment. Plan. That is also called an article. Something Worth Knowing Good news on the wellbeing front. A 2025 systematic review of resilience and wellbeing programs for nurses, published in BMC Nursing, found c...

May 27, 2026 communicate for income freelance basics nurse entrepreneur

The email that gets read

Start with This The nurses who get promoted aren't always the most experienced. They are the most clearly understood. Something Worth Knowing Good news from the leadership research world. A 2025 Wolters Kluwer survey of 150 chief nursing officers found that nearly nine in ten CNOs reported p...

May 20, 2026 communicate for advancement leadership communication workplace writing

What happens to you between shifts

The thing that helps you set down a hard shift is probably not what you have been trying. Here's something new you can try today. Start with This Nurses are trained to stay composed during the hardest moments. Nobody teaches you what to do with those moments after the shift ends. Something...

May 13, 2026 burnout & reslience communicate for renewal reflective practice

The thought you keep having after your shift

Start with This A writing career does not always arrive as a plan. Sometimes it arrives as a question you cannot stop asking. Something Worth Knowing Good news from the writing world. The global medical writing market is projected to reach $9.4 billion by 2032, with clinical expertise increa...

May 06, 2026 communicate for income freelance basics nurse entrepreneur

The space between what you experience and what you process

Nurses are trained to stay composed when it matters. Nobody teaches you what comes after. Start with This Burnout does not arrive all at once. It builds quietly, shift by shift, in the space between what you experience and what you have time to process. Something Worth Knowing Good news ...

by Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN — Apr 29, 2026 burnout & resilience communicate for renewal nurse wellness

The knowledge you are sitting on

Start With This You know how bodies work. How systems fail. How patients get scared. How families grieve. That knowledge has value far beyond the walls of your facility. The only question is whether you have started to think of it that way yet. Something Worth Knowing Good news on the conten...

Apr 22, 2026

Clinical excellence is the foundation, not the ceiling

The nurses who get promoted are not necessarily better clinicians. They have learned something else, and it is teachable. A quick note before we begin... ShiftNotes looks a little different this week. You have not been added to a new list, and nothing about your subscription has changed. Wh...

Apr 15, 2026 communicate for advancement leadership communication professional development

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