Tips for Travel Nurses on Going Green Travel nursing can be exciting, challenging, and rewarding, but it can also be a little rough on the environment. The San Francisco Chronicle's website has a list of tips for reducing your carbon footprint. These suggestions are geared towards travel nurses, tra...
Read more →The Changing Role of Today’s Nurses 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 t...
Read more →Alexander Raths – Fotolia.com Baby Boomers a Driving Force Behind Demand for Nurses In its biannual Employment Outlook report, the U.S. Department of Labor stated that the healthcare and social assistance fields would experience the highest growth for new jobs, with more than 5 million new workers n...
Read more →Nursing Shortage Over, For Now Jaimie Duplass – Fotolia.com A study indicates that the nursing shortage is over, but that it will likely come roaring back. By 2020, it might be more difficult than ever to fill nursing vacancies. An article in the Detroit News indicates that the the number of full-ti...
Read more →More Men Becoming Nurses © Minerva Studio – Fotolia.com The nursing field is still dominated by women, but more and more men are joining their ranks. The stigma is fading, and the opportunities are beckoning. For students like Trevor Potts, interviewed in an article in the South Dakota State Univers...
Read more →A.C.O.s Offer New Healthcare Option An article in the New York Times explains a new type of health care practice called accountable care organizations, or A.C.O.s. The article takes the case of Fannie Cline as an example of how A.C.O.s work. Mrs. Cline, a 69-year-old retiree, was struggling to manag...
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 →A Nurse Ethicist Explains Her Specialty ©-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 explai...
Read more →Registered Nurse is Best Job of 2012 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 healthc...
Read more →New Nursing Education Recommendations Image courtesy of University of Salford via Flickr The face of the nursing profession is changing as as healthcare morphs into a new paradigm of care for the twenty-first century. The number of nursing positions in hospitals has declined and there has been a shi...
Read more →Advanced Certification Offers Options to Nurses 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.” T...
Read more →Nurses in California Have Considerable Political Influence An article in the Sacramento Bee examines the role that nurses have in the political sphere in California, especially in terms of their ability to use strikes effectively. There have been a series of strikes or threatened strikes recently, s...
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