Amazing opportunities are available for career advances for nurses. The key to reaching your advanced nursing career goals is a mix of the right experience, nurse continuing education units, nursing degrees, and advanced degrees.
While you can advance from an LPN position to an RN position with a degree from a Hospital Diploma program or [...]
Why Choose Nursing as a Career?
When you choose nursing as a career, you’ll find jobs that are rewarding and diverse. Right now there are over 100,000 vacant healthcare positions nationwide, and experts predict that by the year 2020 there will be over 800,000 nursing position to fill. Because of this ever-increasing need for nurses, some [...]
Nursing shortages are nothing new. For years, U.S. hospitals have imported nurses from Canada, the Philippines and elsewhere to fill vacancies. But an aging baby boomer population and aging nursing work force are combining to create an unprecedented crisis that could lead to more medical mistakes and even patient deaths, experts say.
The nearly 78 million [...]
It’s a grim diagnosis: As many as 200,000 more physicians will be needed in the next decade than medical schools will turn out, leading to a nationwide physician shortage just when millions of baby boomers are entering their later years.
The anticipated shortfall is already creating stiff competition among health care providers across the country to [...]
Who knew? I was only looking for a fun read, but what I discovered was a new nurse hero in literature. Her name is Madam Poppy Pomfrey, and she exists in all the Harry Potter novels. It was quite a surprise to me, really, for no one had mentioned a nurse in these extremely popular [...]
The Wilmington News Journal on Tuesday published two articles about the state’s looming nursing shortage. Summaries appear below.
* Nursing school: The News Journal examined how the lack of qualified faculty at nursing schools in the state contributes to a bottleneck of nursing students. According to the Delaware Health Care Commission, there [...]
The following summarizes coverage of events and initiatives that seek to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
* Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma American Indian tribe a three-year, $1.5 million grant to go toward residential substance use treatments [...]
An extensive study of how the nursing profession has been portrayed in films over the last century has shown that unflattering stereotypes are becoming less common and nurses are now being portrayed in a more positive light.
Australian nurse researcher Dr David Stanley reviewed more than 36,000 film synopses and watched 280 films made between 1900 [...]
So, you want to go to one of the top nursing schools, take up nursing and be a well paid and steady employed nurse years from now? To achieve this and more, you have to scout for the top nursing schools that could give you the best level of education. You go here and there [...]
Nursing education in India is hot and glittering with its multi-million dollar prospects. Nursing career holds the greatest employment potential in the world. It is one of the hottest disciplines with job prospects and ever increasing, never diminishing demand.
The Indian Nursing education has achieved a level of advancement in the standards of nurse training so [...]
