By : Jeff Morrow

There are hundreds of career avenues for nurses, but here are five career paths that show an especially high social need and can offer nurses both financial and career satisfaction.

When you work as a home health care nurse in private homes, you prepare meals, offer basic bedside care, and emotional comfort. You track vital signs such as blood pressure, respiration, and pulse. You can help family members learn basic nursing tasks. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Stephanie Larkin

No workplace has escaped the touch of technology, including nursing. Nursing is still, and will always be, a field where technology has had a huge impact on the way that nurses do their job. While some of the technological advances have made the nurse’s job easier, others have been implemented as a price saving measure, and still others are used to improve patient safety. Read the rest of this entry »

Pediatric Nursing, Is it Right For You?

By: Stephanie Larkin
Pediatric nursing, or the field of nursing that relates to treating children, is a specialized and sometimes stressful field. Pediatric nursing is not for everyone. Before you decide to specialize in pediatric nursing it is important to understand some of the drawbacks to the field, as well as the benefits. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Rita Henry

By the year 2020, the United States will face a nursing shortage of 800,000 unfilled registered nursing jobs – and very few of those jobs are in traditional hospital settings. These days, a registered nursing job is as likely to take you into a laboratory or someone’s living room as it is to put you at bedside in the recovery room. If you’re just starting your career in nursing, or looking to make a change, take a look at some of the non-traditional settings that have registered nursing jobs available. Read the rest of this entry »

By Grant Eckert

Travel nursing is a wonderful way to merge the nursing profession that you love, with a fondness for travel, meeting new people, and gaining new experiences. You can travel to and work in different locations and medical facilities around the country as a travel nurse or as a travel nursing professional. By joining an agency for traveling nursing professionals, you can gain the experiences of meeting people and seeing the landscapes of different areas and develop a broader range of nursing skills by working in the top notch medical facilities scattered throughout the nation. The travel nursing profession offers you the opportunity to share your skill and compassion as a nursing professional with people from all over. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Stephanie Larkin

If you are considering an advanced education in the nursing field, you probably have a lot of questions about where this occupation could take you. Not all nurses are the same, and choosing just one area for a specialty can be extremely difficult. From long-term care to emergency room nursing and everything in between, learning about different options available is crucial to your search for the nursing specialty that is best suited to your strengths. Here are some tips to help you determine which area of nursing to specialize in: Read the rest of this entry »

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By: Grant Eckert

If you’re interested in becoming a nurse, you’ve most likely looked at nursing schools and the cost associated with attending them. Although you know you would be getting a rewarding degree, the fact remains that you are still going to have to pay for the educational costs. Read the rest of this entry »

by: Robyn Knapp

In the nursing profession, more now than ever, the ability to think critically is essential. The responsibilities of a Registered Nurse have increased over the years. In correlation with this increase in responsibility comes the additional increase in educational prerequisites and core requisites required to achieve a degree in Nursing. The ANA (American Nursing Association) Standards has set forth the framework necessary for critical thinking in the application of the “nursing process”. The nursing process is the tool by which all nurses can equally become proficient at critical thinking. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Michelle Phillips,Rn

Certified Nursing Assistant Education

A certified nursing assistant (CNA) is a member of a nursing team who provides basic patient care working under the supervision of registered nurses. The nurse assistant performs routine care and treatment of patients, assisting them in their daily tasks. The duties performed may include keeping track of the patient’s all round health, bathing them, serving them meals, taking their temperature, blood pressure, respiration rate, pulse rate, etc. and making observations on the patients and reporting about their condition to supervising nurses. Read the rest of this entry »