Barriers to Diversity in Nursing A recent Nurse-Family Partnership discussion outlined in Nurse.com sought to identify barriers to creating a more ethnically diverse workforce, as well as figuring out ways to create a more ethnically diverse workforce. Rob – Fotolia.com Several nursing leaders parti...
Read more →Several Million Healthcare Workers Needed by 2020 Minerva Studio – Fotolia.com The United States is going to need 5.6 million new healthcare workers by 2020, according to a new study be researchers at Georgetown University. All but 1 million of those new workers are going to require post-secondary e...
Read more →Sending Nurses Back to School jumdero – Fotolia.com More and more hospitals are requiring that their nurses have at least a bachelor’s degree in nursing, according to this article in the New York Times. Jennifer Matton, for example, is working as a nurse right now. However she is working at a hospit...
Read more →Nursing Shortage, or Job Shortage? Rob – Fotolia.com This article in Forbes questions whether nursing has been overhyped as a career. It concludes, however, that nursing is still extraordinarily strong, even if the ebb and flow of jobs has not progressed exactly as predicted. Many nursing schools in...
Read more →Retention: Appealing to Different Generations Minerva Studio – Fotolia Generational theory “explains that the era in which a person was born affects the development of their view of the world”. People born in the same era tend to have similar value systems, which drive attitudes and behavior. This k...
Read more →Should Nurses Practice Alone? Image courtesy of DIAC Images via Flickr The question of whether nurse practitioners should be allowed to practice independently is being debated in Nebraska. Many nurse practitioners argue that there are many benefits to being able to work without physician oversight....
Read more →Identifying Nursing Retention Strategies auremar – Fotolia.com With each passing year the nursing profession loses a higher number of nurses to retirement than it can replace, and facilities have been actively working to identify retention strategies. While some nurses retire early to pursue other c...
Read more →Nursing Tops Career Bets 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...
Read more →Nurse Practitioners on The Rise 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,...
Read more →More and more men are taking “pink collar jobs” like teaching and nursing, fields that traditionally have been dominated by women. While the economy definitely has a part, the trend began well before the crash, and is being driven by a variety of factors including financial concerns, quality-of-life...
Read more →The Impact of Violence Against Nurses and Their Employers Junial Enterprises – Fotolia.com When people talk about violence in the workplace, they don’t often think of the healthcare field. While post offices are the most stereotypical place for violent events, (lending us the phrase “going postal”)...
Read more →How Young Nurses Are Invigorating the Profession Samuel Borges – Fotolia Young people are deciding that they want to go into nursing in record numbers. There was a 62% increase in the number of nurses ages 23 to 26 entering the field between 2002 and 2009. And there are waiting lists at many nursing...
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