Start Your First Shift With a Little More Confidence
Starting your first nursing job can feel exciting and overwhelming. This free guide gives you 10 things every new nurse needs to hear—plus a practical First Shift Checklist to help you walk in feeling a little more prepared and supported.
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REAL-LIFE ENCOURAGEMENT
Wisdom from 36+ years of nursing experience
PRACTICAL FIRST-SHIFT HELP
Simple guidance to help you feel more prepared.
MADE FOR NEW NURSES
Support for the moments when nursing feels overwhelming.
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Welcome to the Profession: Journal Edition
Encouragement from one nurse to another, with room for your own story. This hardcover journal edition brings together real-life conversations, guided reflection questions, and space to write about what you’re learning and experiencing. A thoughtful gift for a new nurse, a nursing graduate, or yourself.
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Encouragement For Every Shift
Nurse-to-nurse wisdom for the days you need it.
Room For Your Story
Space to reflect, write, and remember.
A Meaningful Gift
A hardcover journal for a nurse’s next chapter.
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Conversaciones reales, aliento práctico y sabiduría para acompañarte al comenzar tu camino en la enfermería.
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EDICIÓN IMPRESA
Perfecta si te gusta tener un libro en tus manos o quieres regalarlo.
EDICIÓN KINDLE
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UN REGALO CON PROPÓSITO
Un detalle lleno de ánimo para una estudiante de enfermería o una nueva enfermera.
New Nurse Shift Survival Pack
A practical 15-page printable PDF created to help new nurses feel more organized, prepared, and confident on any shift. Includes 4- and 6-patient report sheets, priorities, assessment and medication .
reminders, provider-call guidance, handoff support, and an end-of-shift reset.
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Printable Report Sheets
Use the 4-patient or 6-patient sheet to keep essential details organized throughout your shift.
Safer Shift Support
Stay focused on priorities, assessments, medication safety, and what to check before calling the provider.
Finish Strong
Give a clearer handoff, reset at the end of your shift, and carry less chaos home with you
A Little Calm After a Long Shift
Created especially for nurses, this coloring book includes 35 original nurse-inspired designs filled with encouragement, humor, and calming details. A peaceful way to put the shift down, take a breath, and enjoy a little time for yourself.
Paperback available on Amazon for $12.97.
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35 Original Designs
Nurse-inspired encouragement, humor, and calming patterns.
Single-Sided Pages
Each coloring design has a blank reverse side.
Made for Every Shift
Created with equal appreciation for day-shift and night-shift nurses.
Nurses' Coloring Book-PDF version
A little calm after a long shift. Download The Nurse’s Stress-Relief Coloring Book and enjoy 35 nurse-inspired designs with encouraging reminders. Print your favorite pages at home and take a quiet moment just for you.
Printable PDF • 8.5 × 11 inches • $7.97
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35 Designs Just for Nurses
Nurse-inspired coloring pages with encouraging reminders for life beyond the shift.
Download & Print at Home
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A Little Time for You
Slow down, pick your colors, and enjoy a quiet moment after a busy day.
Labor, Love & Little Beginnings
An adult coloring book made with labor & delivery nurses in mind — the long shifts, the waiting, the first cries, and everything in between. Sweet, funny, true-to-the-unit pages to color your stress away after a long shift, made from the sayings and moments only L&D nurses really understand. Print it, grab your markers, and take a few quiet minutes for you.
35 Designs Just for L&D Nurses
Labor, delivery, and newborn-care coloring pages with encouraging reminders for life beyond the shift.
Made for Breaks & Call Rooms
Keep it in your work bag and color a few peaceful pages whenever the unit gives you a minute.
A Little Time for You
Slow down, pick your colors, and enjoy a quiet moment after a busy day.
Labor, Love & Little Beginnings Coloring Book—PDF version
A little calm after caring for others. Download Labor, Love & Little Beginnings and enjoy 35 detailed designs inspired by labor, delivery, and newborn care, with encouraging reminders. Print your favorite pages at home and take a quiet moment just for you.
Printable PDF • 8.5 × 11 inches • $7.97
Digital download only. No physical book will be shipped.
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35 Designs Just for L&D Nurses
Labor, delivery, and newborn-care coloring pages with encouraging reminders for life beyond the shift.
Download & Print at Home
Get your printable PDF and print your favorite pages on 8.5 × 11-inch paper.
A Little Time for You
Slow down, pick your colors, and enjoy a quiet moment after a busy day.
Nurses' Mini Guide Collection-The Lifelong Learner
Growing From New Nurse to Experienced Nurse
11-page downloadable PDF · $5
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Build Confidence
Recognize your progress and grow one lesson, one question, and one shift at a time
Stay Teachable
Discover practical ways to keep learning—from your first shift through years of experience.
Put It Into Practice
Use reflection questions and a simple 30-day challenge to turn everyday experiences into learning
About Esther Lopez
Esther Lopez, RN, BSN, MSN, has been a nurse for more than 36 years, with experience in medical-surgical nursing, Labor & Delivery, Antepartum, home health, outpatient OB, hospice, and nursing education.
After more than a decade as a clinical instructor, Esther created Notes to Nurses to share the encouragement, practical wisdom, and lessons nurses often learn only through experience.
Proven results that speak for themselves.
