The caring does not have to stop when the paychecks do, according to nurses around the country who have discovered the joy in practicing as a nurse volunteer. Nurses are needed in volunteer roles locally, domestically and abroad. Depending on your experience and education, you can offer your service...
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Violence was escalating in the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, when Seattle-based operating nurse Louise Fang arrived in early 2007 to start her first of three assignments with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Having recently retired from a US veterans’ hospital, Fang would no...
Read more →The many possibilities for jobs in nursing can be overwhelming to the new graduate as well as the veteran nurse. I am constantly learning about nursing positions that I never knew existed. A professor once said “imagine any industry, any business and I’ll bet you can find a way to work a nursing job...
Read more →A sort of “us” vs. “them” mentality takes hold when nurses from these two different employment settings takes place. Each feels they have the better of both worlds, but is one setting really more desirable than the other? Some very important and some lighthearted benefits apply to both places: The h...
Read more →I must admit I had never heard of this specialty and my first thought was, this must be a profession where you are dealing with dead bodies, a la C.S.I. But apparently those in this field do not spend their entire day hanging around corpses. Forensic nursing does combine the job aspects of clinical...
Read more →In the last few years of my mother’s life, when she was suffering from myriad chronic conditions that had greatly decreased her mobility, my entire family – but especially my mother, the patient – was thankful for the convenience and reassurance of having a weekly visit from an Registered Nurse, Ann...
Read more →Most people outside the medical field – and a good deal of those within it – are not sure exactly what a nurse anesthetist does; some may have never even heard of it, or think of them as “assistants” to anesthesiologists. Nurse anesthetists have a long and storied history spanning over 150 years, an...
Read more →Any nurse who has worked in an urgent care setting will tell you that it is invariably the most severely ill/injured patients who say, I wasn't even sure I should come in for this, (and this could be anything from kidney stones to an MI to a deep puncture wound) and are the most apologetic about tak...
Read more →About five years ago, when she was in her early fifties, my friend Nancy made a decision that surprised her family and friends. She was going back to school. And she was going to become a nurse. “A nurse?” more than a few people responded. “Why would you want to go through all that schooling? Start...
Read more →In a recent edition of the monthly newsletter I receive in the mail from my family’s HMO, a letter from a reader asked, “Do we even have school nurses anymore? And, what do they do?” School nursing has evolved from the temperature-taking, bandage-applying friendly face we remember from our childhood...
Read more →808 million people travelled internationally in 2005. Americans made almost 62 million trips abroad in 2004, which translates to about 1 in every 5 U.S. residents. With the increasing number of people travelling internationally, the risk of diseases carried across national boundaries also increases....
Read more →All nurses are precious and they work hard to save lives. Yet, some perhaps work even harder because they work not within the safe confines of a hospital in urban America but out there in the battlefield, braving not only fatigue and despair but bombs and bullets as well. We are talking about the Ar...
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