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How To Maximize Your Potential As A Traveling Nurse

It never fails to surprise me how many nurses express their frustration with the world of travel employment. Most often, they wonder why they aren’t finding the assignments they want and deserve; they wonder why placements can take so long; and they wonder why their agencies aren’t doing more to help. It’s understandable nurses feel like this. Finding the right…

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The Lowdown On Earning Your Bsn Online

Earning a BSN online is one way to advance in one’s career. Many colleges offer online programs to those who are interested in pursing academic interests without upsetting their day to day lives. For nurses who work long hours and work different shifts, an online program is the answer for those who want to pursue a BSN. These programs usually…

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Insights Into The Nursing Faculty Shortage

Registered nurses are trained to care for patients while also assessing medical conditions, and administering treatment and medications. They are employed in hospitals, physician’s offices, long term care facilities and as home health aides. Nurses are becoming an increasingly important part of the healthcare system due to rising costs and growing demand. With the increasing need for nurses in the…

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Nursing Schools A Nurse S Touch

Nursing is all about people. While nurses also need to know a little about medicine and diseases, it is more important for them to be involved with knowing how the disease affects the person, the person’s life and the person’s family. While nurses are both male and female, there tends to be a smaller portion of male nurses in proportion…

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Digging Up Evidence On Forensic Nursing Degrees

Nurses have always worked with victims and perpetrators of violent crime, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the term “forensic nursing” became a widespread description of this work. Forensic nursing combines clinical nursing practice with the law enforcement arena. It involves the investigation and treatment of victims of sexual assault, elder, child and spousal abuse, unexplained or accidental…

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Forensic Nursing Careers

Forensic nursing combines clinical nursing practice with the law enforcement arena. It involves the investigation and treatment of victims of sexual assault, elder, child and spousal abuse, unexplained or accidental death, trauma and assault. It also involves the investigation of perpetrators of these crimes. There are an estimated 7,500 nurses who recurrently fill forensic-nursing roles, which includes those who work…

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Continuing Education For Nurses

The following article relates not only to nurses but also to those aspiring to enter the noble profession of nursing. We hope you will get some insight into this field. Although we have used the female reference for nurses throughout this article (“she”, “her”), this is done purely for convenience and in no way reflects the gender status of nurses…

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Nurse Educators In Critical Demand

Nursing is the nation’s largest health care profession, with more than 2.7 million registered nurses nationwide, and nursing students account for more than half of all health professions students in the United States. Applications to attend nursing schools continue to increase nicely but did you know that thousands of students are being turned away because of an acute shortage of…

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New Recruitment Rules For Nhs Nurses

The UK’S National Health Service is the largest organisation in Europe and it is recognised as one of the best health services in the world by the World Health Organisation yet there is a keen need to be improvements to cope with the demands of the 21st century. One of the big changes imposed by the Government is that the…

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Nursing The Next 10 Years A Brief Overview

General Outlook for Nurses The outlook for individuals considering entering the nursing field is excellent. Registered nurses, or RN’s, make up the largest number of health care workers in the country. In addition, registered nurses will make up one of the fasted growing population of workers in all occupations over the next ten years. Many registered nurses begin their career…

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