For the 7th consecutive year, Gallup’s annual poll on the honesty and ethics of people in different professions found nurses to be rated most positively, and by a substantial margin. Telemarketers and car salesmen rank at the bottom of the list.
Nurses have been ranked first each year since being added to the poll in 1999, [...]

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A clinical nurse specialist (CNS) is an advanced practice RN who functions as a health care provider, educator, consultant, researcher, leader/administrator and/or case manager. It is the CNS who often sets the standards for quality patient care; trouble shoots problems and crises; anticipates complications and helps to prevent their development; and views the individual, family [...]

A typical nursing program includes classroom instruction and supervised clinical experience in hospitals and other health care facilities. Students take courses in anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, nutrition, and psychology. To gain the RN title, you must graduate from a state-approved school of nursing - either a four-year university program, a two-year associate degree program, or [...]

The Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center Health Care Career Pipeline Partnership (HCCPP), which has introduced hundreds of elementary school students to health careers since 2006, recently welcomed its first groups of high school students, thanks to a $250,000 grant from The California Endowment.
A main component of the HCCPP is hospital tours, which allow ninth and [...]

For sustained change and assurance of evading the forthcoming shortage, solutions must be developed in several areas: education, health care systems, policy and regulations, and image. This shortage is not exclusively a nursing issue, but will require a collaborative effort among nursing leaders, practitioners, health care executives, government, and the media.
Creating Cultures of Retention
The American [...]

As I’ve written in past blog entries the nursing shortage is due not to a lack of interest but a lack of nurse educators. Nationally, 42,866 qualified applicants were turned away from traditional brick and mortar nursing schools for the past fall’s semester because there are simply not enough seats, according to the American Association [...]

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 [...]

While traditional brick-and-mortar nursing schools turn away thousands of applicants they cannot accommodate, online schools are blitzing Ohio with radio and TV ads and billboards, and one company is honing a for-profit program to help meet the burgeoning demand for nurses.
In the late ’90s, hospital cutbacks under managed care led to fears of an [...]

Forensic Nursing is a specialized field of study that trains nurses in cases of abuse and violent crimes where a combination of both healthcare and law are primary disciplines. Forensic nurses often find the work quite enjoyable and highly rewarding.
Often the first ones seen when a victim arrives at a hospital or clinic after an [...]

Is recruiting foreign labor a wise solution to help curb the national nursing shortage crisis or just another move by the employing health care industry to import cheap labor? According to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, a 21 percent increase in the need for nurses is projected nationwide from 1998 to 2008 and it [...]