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 →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 →Nurses in Chicago Push for Robin Hood Tax There was a large protest in Chicago today, coinciding with the NATO meeting there, designed to draw attention to a proposed tax that has been dubbed the “Robin Hood tax.” It would be a .5 percent tax on banks’ transactions, with the money going to help cove...
Read more →Pediatric Nursing 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 opportuniti...
Read more →It’s National Nurses Week Photo of statue of Florence Nightingale by Tony Baggett – Fotolia.com It’s time to celebrate nurses and all that they do. It’s National Nurses week! The week runs from May 6th through May 12th, which is the birthday of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. Na...
Read more →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 →Nursing Shortage in Southern Minnesota Andy Dean – Fotolia.com One thing that has become clear is that there are regional trends in nursing jobs. For every article that says that the nursing shortage is over, I’ve found another one that mentions a specific region that is feeling the crunch. In a sto...
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...
Read more →Nursing Programs Drawing Students Over 40 As nursing continues to be a strong profession, more and more people are turning to nursing for the first time in middle age. Some of them get into it after they’ve been fired from non-nursing jobs. Others are re-entering the workforce after a period of bein...
Read more →California Grads Having Trouble Finding Jobs Perhaps more California nurses should consider moving to Alaska? While Alaska is seeing a shortage of nurses (at least in specialized fields), many recent California nursing school graduates are having a hard time finding a job. A survey of newly licensed...
Read more →Certification Signals Expertise Is specialty nursing certification necessary? What are the benefits? Must an RN be certified to compete for jobs? These are some of the questions addressed in this article on Nurse.com. There is no question that specialty nursing certification has become increasingly...
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