Nursing students
The supply list, sorted honestly: what skills lab actually needs, what the clinical site already owns, and the purchases worth deferring two years.
Read the guide →Who it's for
The same job, six completely different gear problems
A nursing student is solving for a supply list and a budget. A traveler is solving for what fits in a car. A home health nurse is solving for a trunk that hits 140 degrees in July, and an ICU nurse is solving for what comes out of a pocket one-handed. Advice written for “nurses” in general tends to be advice for none of them, so these six pages were written separately, from each job's own constraints.
New grad nurses
Arrive with four things, not forty. What to have before day one, what to buy with the first real paycheck, and why the stethoscope is the one upgrade that pays for itself.
Read the guide →Night shift nurses
Upside down on purpose: the day-sleep stack ranked by leverage first, then the short list of things that earn a pocket at 3 a.m.
Read the guide →Travel nurses
Everything has to fit in a car, and you have to be self-sufficient on a unit you have never seen. A weight ledger for deciding what actually travels.
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No wall cuff, no monitor, nobody down the hall. Setting up a two-bag system and a vehicle that survives a summer trunk and a February morning.
Read the guide →ER & ICU nurses
Why you carry two pairs of shears, where the stethoscope money goes in critical care, and a pocket-by-pocket load-out you can find without looking down.
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