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Notable Nurses
Betty Smith Williams
Betty Smith Williams helped found the National Black Nurses Association twenty years after the previous organization for Black nurses had voted itself out of ex...
Notable Nurses
Betty Neuman
Betty Neuman built her model around a question about reserves: not what is wrong with this person, but how much do they have left to withstand what is coming. B...
Notable Nurses
Imogene King
Imogene King's theory says something that sounds obvious and is routinely ignored: nursing works when the nurse and the patient are pursuing the same goal, and...
Notable Nurses
Callista Roy
Callista Roy built one of the most widely taught frameworks in nursing out of a question she was set as a graduate student: what does nursing actually act on? B...
Notable Nurses
Patricia Benner
Patricia Benner established what changes as a nurse gets good, and the answer is not that they know more rules. It is that they stop using rules. Background Ben...
Notable Nurses
Ida Jean Orlando
Ida Jean Orlando produced the observation that every American nursing student is now taught to act on: that a nurse's first reaction to a patient is an assumpti...
Notable Nurses
Mildred Montag
Mildred Montag designed the two-year associate degree in nursing. More American nurses have entered the profession through it than through any other route, and...
Notable Nurses
Agatha Hodgins
Alice Magaw proved that nurses could give anesthesia. Agatha Hodgins turned it into a profession with a school, a curriculum, an organization and an examination...
Notable Nurses
Alice Magaw
Alice Magaw administered more than fourteen thousand anesthetics at the Mayo brothers' hospital without a death attributable to the anesthetic, and — the part t...
Nursing Certifications
AMB-BC Certification
The AMB-BC is the ambulatory care nursing credential from the American Nurses Credentialing Center — the certification for nurses working with patients who are...
Nursing Certifications
CRRN Certification
The CRRN is the rehabilitation nursing credential, awarded by the Rehabilitation Nursing Certification Board. Eligibility A current, unrestricted registered nur...
Nursing Certifications
Hospice and Palliative Certifications
The Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center certifies across every licence level in the specialty, which is unusual and reflects how hospice teams actually...
Nursing Certifications
GERO-BC Certification
The GERO-BC is the gerontological nursing credential from the American Nurses Credentialing Center — the clinical certification for nurses caring for older adul...
Nursing Certifications
PMH-BC Certification
The PMH-BC is the psychiatric-mental health nursing credential for registered nurses, from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Eligibility A current, acti...
Nursing Certifications
Nurse Leadership Certifications
Four credentials cover nursing leadership, from two issuing bodies, split by level rather than by setting. From the American Nurses Credentialing Center NE-BC —...
Nursing Certifications
NPD-BC Certification
The NPD-BC is the nursing professional development credential from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. It certifies the nurses who develop other nurses in...
Nursing Certifications
CPHQ Certification
The CPHQ — certified professional in healthcare quality — is awarded by the National Association for Healthcare Quality and is described by its issuer as the on...
Nursing Certifications
Case Management Certifications
Case management has three certifications covering overlapping ground, and choosing between them depends mostly on which side of the transaction you work. CCM Th...
Nursing Certifications
NI-BC Informatics Certification
The NI-BC is the nursing informatics credential from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. It is the recognized certification for the specialty that sits be...
Nursing Certifications
CIC and the Infection Prevention Credentials
The Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology awards the credentials for infection prevention. All four are multidisciplinary — most holders are...
Nursing Certifications
CDCES Certification
The certified diabetes care and education specialist credential is awarded by the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education Specialists. It is one of...
Nursing Certifications
CRNI Certification
The CRNI is the infusion nursing credential, awarded by the Infusion Nurses Certification Corporation. Eligibility A current, active, unrestricted registered nu...
Nursing Certifications
Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Certification
The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing Certification Board is the principal certifying body for the specialty. Certification is available in each of the three...
Nursing Certifications
Obstetric and Neonatal Certifications
The National Certification Corporation certifies across obstetric, neonatal, and women's health nursing. Its structure is unusual: core certifications for regis...
Nursing Certifications
CPN and the Pediatric Credentials
The Pediatric Nursing Certification Board awards the specialty's principal credentials, from staff nurse to advanced practice. CPN The certified pediatric nurse...
Nursing Certifications
OCN and the Oncology Credentials
The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation runs eight credential programmes and has more than 40,000 currently certified nurses. It is one of the most devel...
Nursing Certifications
CMSRN and MEDSURG-BC
Medical-surgical nursing has two competing certifications, awarded by different boards, aimed at the same nurse. Both are legitimate and accredited, and neither...
Nursing Certifications
CPAN and CAPA Certification
The American Board of Perianesthesia Nursing Certification awards two credentials, and they divide the specialty by phase of care rather than by where the nurse...
Nursing Certifications
CNOR Certification
The CNOR is the perioperative nursing credential, awarded by the Competency and Credentialing Institute and described by its issuer as the only accredited certi...
Nursing Certifications
CEN Certification
The CEN is the foundational specialty certification for registered nurses in emergency care, awarded by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing. Its is...
Nursing Certifications
PCCN Certification
The PCCN is the progressive care nursing credential from the certification arm of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. It covers nurses caring for...
Nursing Certifications
CCRN Certification
The CCRN is the critical care nursing credential, awarded by the certification arm of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. It is one of the most wi...
Nursing Certifications
Specialty certification is voluntary recognition by a private board that a nurse has met a standard beyond licensure. It is not licensure, it is not granted by...
Nursing Careers
Clinical Ladders
A clinical ladder is a structured programme that recognizes and pays for advancing expertise at the bedside, without requiring a nurse to become a manager. It e...
Nursing Careers
Moving States as a Nurse
Nursing licences are granted by states, so moving is a licensing event as well as a job search. Three things have to be handled, and the order matters because o...
Nursing Careers
Returning to Practice
Nurses leave and come back — after raising children, after illness, after a career elsewhere, after burnout. The route back has three parts that have to be deal...
Nursing Careers
Leaving the Bedside
Leaving the bedside is not leaving nursing, and the distinction matters because the two get conflated in every workforce conversation. The share of registered n...
Nursing Careers
Changing Specialty
One licence covers every nursing specialty. Nothing in law stops a medical-surgical nurse working in an intensive care unit tomorrow — the barrier is entirely c...
Nursing Careers
Nursing Interviews
A nursing interview is usually two conversations: a recruiter screening for eligibility and availability, and a manager — often with staff nurses on the panel —...
Nursing Careers
Nursing Resumes
A nursing resume is read twice by different people looking for different things. A recruiter checks whether you are eligible and available. A nurse manager chec...
Nursing Careers
The New Graduate Job Search
The first nursing job is chosen under two pressures that pull in opposite directions: get somewhere good, and get somewhere now. It matters less than it feels l...
Nursing Careers
One licence opens a very wide set of jobs, and nursing careers move sideways far more often than up. About 20 percent of registered nurses changed setting in a...
What Patients Say About Nurses
Every hospital that takes Medicare surveys a random sample of discharged adult patients about their stay, and the results are published by hospital, state and n...
How Many Nurses Each State Trains
Every degree-granting institution in the United States reports the awards it confers, by programme, to the federal education statistics agency. That makes it po...
Nursing Education
PhD in Nursing
A PhD in nursing is a research doctorate. It prepares nurse scientists: people who design and conduct original research, secure funding for it, publish it, and...
Nursing Education
The Doctor of Nursing Practice
The doctor of nursing practice is a practice doctorate: a terminal degree oriented toward applying evidence in clinical and organizational settings rather than...
Nursing Education
Master's Degrees in Nursing
A master's degree in nursing is the entry credential for advanced practice and the working credential for most non-clinical nursing careers. What it is worth de...
Nursing Education
Direct-Entry Master's Programs
A direct-entry master's programme admits someone with a bachelor's degree in another field and produces a master's-prepared registered nurse. The names vary — e...
Nursing Education
RN to BSN Programs
An RN-to-BSN programme takes a licensed registered nurse with an associate degree or diploma and completes the bachelor's degree. It is the largest single flow...
Nursing Education
LPN to RN Bridge Programs
A bridge programme moves a licensed practical nurse into registered nursing with advanced standing, granting credit for the practical nursing education and lice...

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