Robin Holte was an interior designer for 25 years. Then she decided to return to college and become a registered nurse. She wasn’t considering job security at the time; she wanted to make more of an impact, helping people and caring for them, she says in this article on the Appleton Post-Crescent we...
Read more →Privilege – Fotolia.com Advanced registered nurse practitioners can see patients, diagnose and treat their problems, and prescribe medication. So it’s not that surprising that sometimes they’re called “doctor” by their patients. Marcia Hillman, a family practice ARNP, gently corrects her patients wh...
Read more →Sergey Khamidulin – Fotolia.com This article in the Chicago Tribune looks at pediatric nursing — the benefits, the drawbacks, and some pointers on how to pursue the specialty if it is something that interests you. People who are drawn to pediatric nursing often cite the opportunities for a more pers...
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Image courtesy of kathryn Weigel via Flickr Military Nurse Certification United States Military nurses serve the healthcare needs of both military and civilian populations throughout the world. In fact, according to the Military Health System (MHS), military nurses must be prepared to carry out the...
Read more →In the Atlantic, Christine Mackey-Ross writes about the importance of improving the quality of health care, not just driving down costs, and the new breed of health care leaders that have been attracted by this challenge: physician and nurse executives. Many organizations are now forming Accountable...
Read more →In the Huffington Post, Charles Tiffin writes about the many ways that nursing “has become more complex in ways that couldn’t have been imagined a generation ago.” To begin with, the nurses are tasked with an ever-wider range of health care responsibilities. And they’re not just caring for the sick...
Read more →Physicians are resisting legislation that is geared towards allowing advance practice registered nurses (APRNs) like nurse practitioners to practice independently. This has been proposed as a solution to the problem of increasing health care costs. The main objection stated by physicians has been th...
Read more →©-Jose Manuel Gelpi – Fotolia.com There are so many challenging decisions in nursing, and not all of the ethical issues are clear-cut. A nurse ethicist can be a resource in those difficult situations. Nurse.com has an interview with a nurse ethicist who explains this little-known specialty. Lucia D....
Read more →The US News and World Report has published a list of the top ten jobs of 2012. At the very top of the list — above jobs such as web developer and pharmacist — is "Registered Nurse." All ten of the best jobs of 2012 fall one of two broad categories, either healthcare or computers. Each year, U.S. New...
Read more →People rarely want to leave home to enter a nursing home, even if their level of care requires it. A new emphasis on home health care is allowing more people to stay at home for longer, while also saving money, according to this article in the New York Times. In this new model of home health care, a...
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Registered Nurses are required to obtain Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in order to renew their licenses. Many nurses are going beyond the bare minimum and seeking certification in various specialties, enabling to put more letters after that “RN.” The process of receiving certification varies acr...
Read more →When asked what an ambulatory care nurse does, many nurses aren’t aware that such a specialty exists. What may be labeled as simply a nurse that used to work in a hospital, but who left to work in a doctor’s office, is an actual specialty in nursing practice. Ambulatory nursing has a professional so...
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