News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
Alexander Raths – Fotolia.com A nurse will typically lift 1.8 tons in the course of a normal day, according to this article in USA Today. Not a day as the guest star in the circus freak show — just a regular, ordinary, eight-hour day at the hospital. As a result, nurses have suffered back injuries a...
Read more →Yuri Arcurs – Fotolia.com For years, we heard that a nursing shortage was imminent, projected to reach monumental proportions by the second to third decade of the new millennium and threatening to bring the U.S. healthcare system to its knees. However, many feel that there is now, in fact, a nursing...
Read more →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 participated in the discussion, includ...
Read more →Nurses make up the largest group of health care providers, working in many different venues, from doctors’ offices to biotech firms. They regularly score very high on trustworthiness, and they have a huge impact on how health care is delivered and defined. But it’s a tough job. Especially when they...
Read more →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 education, according to this article on Nurse.com....
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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 hospital that has the bachelor’s deg...
Read more →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 increased their enrollments due to pr...
Read more →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 knowledge can be valuable in terms of staff ret...
Read more →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 careers, it appears that there are ways to...
Read more →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”) other locations that are usually considered to be more vio...
Read more →The average age of nurses is currently 46, according to this article in USA Today. Many baby boomers have retired or will be in the next decade or so. Nursing is a very physical job, and the requirements of the job such as lifting patients and standing for long periods can become too much for many o...
Read more →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 story for the Mankato, Minnesota Fox netwo...
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