Nursing & Nails

04/12/2026

Are you hip to the 7 different magnesium types? As a nurse with 30 years under my belt, I just learned this and I'm feeling a little silly! The one you need might just shock you. Reach out if you've got questions or stories to share!

04/11/2026

04/11/2026

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This is a fundamental truth!! Our elders worked diligently to earn their daily meals, and if they fell short, they went hungry. No fast food chains, no convenience stores around the corner, no meal delivery apps. During periods of scarcity, they endured fasting, which paradoxically allowed their bodies to focus energy on healing and generating new, healthy immune cells. Today, when we're beset with illness, our knee-jerk reaction is to stress about not eating, when in fact, fasting can be a therapeutic pathway to self-recovery.

03/23/2026

Hospitals send people home faster that ever! Rehab stays ends sooner.
Home health is still a key recovery component, but it can take days for Home Health to start.
Meanwhile, families are left doing “nurse work” without a nurse.

Nursing & Nails brings a nurse to you.
From 1hr to 24/7, we help you stabilize and recover safely at home or the place you call home (assisted living, memory care, independent, living, etc.)

We can help with:
✅ Med set-up + education
✅ Vitals checks + symptom monitoring
✅ Wound care support (per orders)
✅ Post-op / illness recovery check-ins
✅ Caregiver coaching + care plan coordination

Call/Text: 479-225-5299
Tell us: “Just discharged and need a nurse today.”

03/04/2026

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02/14/2026

🌀 NO AIR CONDITIONING. JUST FANS IN THE HALLWAY.

Every once in a while someone says something online that stops you cold… because it instantly takes you back.

Someone wrote:

“And we did it with no air conditioning. Just fans in the hallways…”

And if you know… you know.

Because nursing back then wasn’t just hard.
It was a whole different world.

The halls were hot.
The rooms were hotter.
And those old fans didn’t “cool” anything… they just moved warm air around like it was doing you a favor.

You’d walk into a shift already sweating.
By midnight your uniform was sticking to you.
And by morning? You looked like you survived a storm.

And then there was the part people today don’t even believe when you tell them…

Not every room had a bathroom.

So what did we do?

Bedpans.
Commode pans.
Carried down the hall like it was just part of the job… because it was.

And you didn’t have fancy disposal systems.
You had a place some nurses today have never even heard of…

The hopper room.

That little room with the smell you could recognize with your eyes closed.

And night shift nurses?
They KNOW what happened in that hopper room.

Because there was literally a schedule.

Someone pulled bedpans.
Someone washed them.
Someone made sure they went back.

And here’s the part that will make every old-school nurse laugh out loud:

You’d mark the bedpan with a marker so it could go back to the same patient.

Not because it was “extra.”
Not because it was funny.

Because it was survival.

Because you didn’t have endless supplies.
You didn’t have disposable everything.
You had what you had… and you made it work.

That was nursing.

It wasn’t glamorous.
It wasn’t Instagram-worthy.
But it was real.

And the funny part is… we didn’t sit around complaining.

We just did it.

We didn’t call it “trauma.”
We called it Tuesday.

And now when people say things like…

“What’s a hopper room?”

You realize how much the world has changed.

But you also realize something else:

Those nurses who worked in that era?

They were built different.

Not because they were better…
but because they had to be.

💭 Old-school nurses… do you remember the hopper room?
Did you have to scrub bedpans on night shift?

👇 Drop your story in the comments — because I KNOW some of you have memories that would shock nurses today.

02/14/2026

True story 😂😂

🚬 SMOKING. IN. THE. HOSPITAL.

New nurses won’t believe this…

But there was a time when patients smoked in their beds like it was completely normal.

Ashtrays at the nurses’ station.
Smoke in the break room.
Doctors charting with a cigarette in hand.

Now it sounds unreal…

But back then?

It was just another shift.

💬 Be honest…
Did your hospital have a smoking lounge?
Or did people just light up wherever they wanted? 😭

Tag a nurse who remembers this era.

02/11/2026

We Bridge the Care GAP.

Hospitals discharge earlier than ever. Rehab ends before you feel ready. Home Health is important, but it can take days to start.

Meanwhile, families are left doing the hard parts:
• Managing meds and symptoms
• Watching for complications
• Worrying all night
• Trying to be “the nurse” without training

You don’t have to carry this alone.

Nursing & Nails brings a private nurse to your home, starting at 1 hour up to 24/7 support. Recovery, transitions, end-of-life support, wound care, medication support, peace of mind.

📞 Call/Text now to talk options: 479-225-5299

12/08/2025

We’re celebrating the women driving Arkansas forward and we need your help! Submit your nominations for the 2026 Top 100 Women of Arkansas, a collaborative project with Little Rock Soirée magazine. Recognize the leaders, visionaries, and changemakers making a difference by Jan. 31. 🗳️

Learn more about this special publication and nominate a top woman:
https://www.littlerocksoiree.com/nominations-open-for-top-100-women-of-arkansas/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOdVqZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEemvHGeYaDACiHxJMAqXbv1zuI_Bk8AOBuRnXmBYtT6TnJDXxgicW8h3weTjo_aem_A1y22mc9VJZAhtDRgZ9-Ow

11/26/2025

💕 We love Nurse Blake. Laugh or cry folks!!