While no one knows whether Congress and the president will achieve comprehensive health care reform, nursing experts are convinced that, regardless of what happens in Washington, nurses will find greater career opportunities in the future.
From larger patient populations and greater demand to advances in telemedicine and more community-based, non-hospital careers, a number of factors are [...]
Pink ribbons have long been synonymous with Breast Cancer Awareness, but there’s another advocacy group helping women who face a different cancer diagnosis: ovarian cancer; its ribbon is teal blue.
RNs are a critical part of the medical team treating a woman with cancer, which, you could say, is women helping women; according to the U.S. [...]
Clinical Data Managers may hold a certificate, associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree, combined with on-the-job training. Clinical Data Managers can also pursue professional certification. Related careers are medical and clinical manager, clinical laboratory technician and technologist, clinical research associate and researcher.
Career Definition: Clinical Data Manager
Clinical Data Managers are directly involved with clinical research for pharmaceutical [...]
Nurse Theresa Poole spent her days this month offering health screening and medications as a volunteer in the Republic of Zambia. She delivered analgesics to suffering patients and taught HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.
Poole returned home Wednesday to her job at the Rosewood Care Centers, residential centers serving several communities in Illinois. In Africa, she served [...]
Tens of thousands of hospital deaths every year can be blamed on a nationwide nursing shortage, according to a report released today by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
The private commission, which inspects and accredits hospitals, believes that a lack of nurses is to blame for thousands of deaths caused by problems [...]
Nearly one-third of registered nurses surveyed in January say they will not be working in their current job a year from now, and close to half say they plan to alter their career path in one to three years.
The 2010 survey of registered nurses released Wednesday by AMN Healthcare, a San Diego-based provider of [...]
UK programmes designed to help the unemployed get back to work and support young parents are losing impact because they are not designed with the participants’ gender in mind. Men as well as women can lose out as a result of ‘gender blind’ policies. This finding, based on two case studies in the North East [...]
There are quite a few reputed nursing homes in Honolulu providing extensive nursing services to patients. Presences of these firms have made it easier for the job seekers to search for quality nursing jobs in Honolulu. Various types of nursing services are offered by these firms that include 24 hour on call availability, emotional and [...]
Detroit is well served by its international quality healthcare facilities. You can find that many nursing job seekers from various parts of the world migrate to Detroit in search of greener pastures. Hospitals and nursing homes in the city are equipped with ultra modern infrastructure and well trained staff. Nursing staff in Detroit hospitals and [...]
Corpus Christi with an estimated population of 285,267 in 2006 is Texas’ eighth-largest city. The economy of Corpus Christi is healthy and diversified. Corpus Christi has good economic growth and the unemployment rate is very low. The city’s healthcare facilities are well developed and as there are many good hospitals, there also many good nursing [...]