With nursing, there are plenty of options when it comes to climbing the ladder. If you are at the start of your nursing career, then you have most likely considered advancing even further, whether that’s to become a nurse anesthetist or a family nurse practitioner. Getting there can be a struggle, however, as you will need to further your education.
Attaining a nursing master’s or doctorate takes a lot of hard work, and it is...
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There's no denying 2020 has been a challenging year, both in terms of health and an economic recession . But 2021 is just around the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- At the end of a year when medical workers have braved exposure to the coronavirus to provide lifesaving care, Americans have become more likely to laud the honesty and ethics of nurses, medical doctors and pharmacists. Still, nurses remain the undisputed leader, as they have been for nearly two decades.
Nurses earn a record 89% very high/high score for their honesty and ethics this year, four percentage...
Montana State University has been selected to lead a two-year study about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses, the largest group of U.S. health care workers, focusing on changes in employment, earnings and the supply of nurses. The study is being funded by grants totaling $430,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Johnson & Johnson Foundation in partnership with the Johnson &...
Enrollment at UT's College of Nursing is at an all-time high, as the dean says the pandemic is inspiring more people to start careers in healthcare.
NOXVILLE, Tenn. — A nationwide nursing shortage isn't new.
Many states need help. Hospitals as close as the Tri-Cities need to hire hundreds of nurses to keep up with patient demand.
But here in East Tennessee, we're in pretty good shape.
"The...
Students aren’t shying away from a nursing career in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lakeview College of Nursing officials say they’ve had an increase of about 10 percent in overall enrollment from the fall of 2019 to the fall of 2020.
“Our new student enrollment has also increased by 22 percent from the fall of 2019 to the fall of 2020,” according to Amy McFadden, coordinator of...
Thanks in part to a $120,000 grant, the Nile Sisters Development Initiative Thursday expanded LearnMore , a vocational nurse assistant training program to help underserved communities prepare for in- demand health care careers.
According to the local displaced-persons-focused nonprofit, the grant was provided by The San Diego Foundation COVID-19 Community Response Fund , and will allow the program to offer...
Nurse leaders Joanne Disch and Mary Beth Kingston share insights about how to overcome challenges and continue to push nurse leadership forward as a valuable voice in the healthcare industry.
Nurse leaders are no strangers to overcoming challenges. Drawing from their experiences, Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN, board chair for Advocate Aurora Health; and Mary Beth Kingston, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, executive vice president and...
The pandemic has been an all-hands-on-deck situation for health care. That has meant channeling the brainpower and energy of those who are just starting their careers in medicine: medical students.
Medical students have contributed in the clinical realm, through volunteer work and through embracing challenges in the digital health realm. That has been evident in the work done by Sling Health , an innovation incubator led by medical...
GORHAM, Maine — The coronavirus pandemic shut down in-person learning last spring, but 40 students in the University of Southern Maine’s accelerated nursing program still received their diplomas on Friday. They picked up their degrees — and were “pinned” — in a drive-thru ceremony on campus, in front of the Costello Sports Complex.
The tradition of conferring pins to nursing graduates goes back 150...
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Two state legislators want to force Virginia’s K-12 public schools to hire more registered nurses – especially now during a pandemic that’s ravaging people across the United States.
And here’s all I could think: You mean, we don’t already have RNs in in every school? What kind of nonsensical, sanctioned penny-pinching is this?
The Chesley Trio has long since graduated from high school, so I wasn’t...