This article provides an overview of nursing careers and the requirements to become a parish nurse. This article will outline a parish nurse’s job duties, salary levels, and employment prospects, as well as discuss the career’s necessary skills, training, educational requirements, and licensing requirements.
Job Duties
The parish nurse is a nursing professional, typically a registered nurse [...]

Objective: In an effort to better understand turnover rates in hospitals and the effect of new nurses on them, this study sought to describe the characteristics and attitudes toward work of newly licensed RNs, a population important to both the nursing profession and the health care system.
Methods: A survey was mailed to a random sample [...]

The three major educational paths to registered nursing are a bachelor’s degree, an associate degree, and a diploma from an approved nursing program. Nurses most commonly enter the occupation by completing an associate degree or bachelor’s degree program. Individuals then must complete a national licensing examination in order to obtain a nursing license. Further training [...]

Registered nurses (RNs), regardless of specialty or work setting, treat patients, educate patients and the public about various medical conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients’ family members. RNs record patients’ medical histories and symptoms, help perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical machinery, administer treatment and medications, and help with patient [...]

The Kentucky General Assembly has another to-do on its list for the next session: Give some muscle to the law protecting mothers who breast-feed in public.
That’s the lesson of this week’s unfortunate, but timely story about Jessica Denny’s expulsion from a McDonald’s in Berea.
Timely because it came during National Breast Feeding month and just after [...]

Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Take Care Nurse Practitioner Serena Stutzman, an Olathe, Kan. resident, to the Kansas State Board of Nursing (KSBN) this month. The KSBN oversees the education, licensing and practice of more than 40,000 registered and licensed nurses in Kansas. The Board, made up of 11 members including six registered nurses, sets and [...]

Faculty shortages at nursing schools across the country are limiting student capacity at a time when the need for nurses continues to grow. Budget constraints, an aging faculty, and increasing job competition from clinical sites have contributed to this emerging crisis.
To minimize the impact of faculty shortages on the nation’s nursing shortage, the American Association [...]

The United States is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the need for health care grows. Compounding the problem is the fact that nursing colleges and universities across the country are struggling to expand enrollment levels to meet the rising demand for nursing care.
The [...]

The field known as public health is an effort to promote, maintain, preserve and improve the health of large populations. This general term includes numerous wide-ranging initiatives to ensure public health, including disease prevention, life prolongation and citizen education. While traditional medical care treats individuals, the entire population of a community or a society is [...]

Psychiatric nurses, also called mental health nurses, deal with that segment of the population suffering from mental illness rather than (or in addition to) physical illness. Psychiatric nurses might engage patients in various forms of counseling or psychotherapy, under the direction of a psychiatrist or therapist, perform psychological or physical assessments of the patient, or [...]