Yes You Can Find Nursing Jobs, LPN and RN Jobs in Today’s Market!
by: Bill Stevens

Looking for nursing jobs, LPN jobs or RN jobs?? No better place to start than right here!Not even 10 years ago, enrollment into nursing programs were called crazy for a number of reasons- the job was (is still) difficult, and there was a shortage of jobs for all of the RN training school graduates out there. Read the rest of this entry »

by: Linda Raye

Nursing is today a very bright career option given its wide application and multifaceted nature. Though nursing has always been to support health needs of the people, but being an inseparable part of doctor-patient relationship, it has undergone many alterations effected by the changing needs of the people and the society at large. 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: 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 »

By: CS Stephanie Larkin

There are a variety of reasons why there is a shortage of nurses, and just as many reasons for why the shortage is expected to grow. The cost of health care is astronomical, and continues to get higher. One way that hospitals are dealing with the rising costs of health care is to increase the duties that everyone performs. Jobs that used to be handled by a physician are taken care of by nurse practitioners. In addition, nurse anesthetists do much of the work that anesthesiologists did, and registered nurses are required to perform a variety of functions, from administering medicine and taking vital signs to helping a patient to the restroom. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Vickie Saleni

Forget the stereotypical nurses dressed in all white, catering to doctors’ every request. Today’s nurses are leaders, technology gurus, and patient care managers, thanks to LPN to BSN (Licensed Practical Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing) programs that prepare them for professional success. Read the rest of this entry »

By: Linda Raye

Whether the US economy slows down or perks up in the near or long term, what is now widely considered as one holding great promise is the demand for qualified nurses in the country for at least the coming 6 years. There is however the fear of growing shortage of good nursing teachers, which means that the gulf between availability of nursing jobs and that of qualified nurses is likely to grow bigger in the years to come.

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