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by Rita Henry
By the year 2014 - just eight years away - there will be 3.6 million new jobs available in the medical profession, and the bulk of those jobs - about 60% of them - will be open to those with nursing degrees of one kind or another. The Read More...»
By Josh Stone
The medical field has always offered great career opportunities and provides not only job security but favorable incomes. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Registered Nursing is the number 1 Career in the Top Ten Occupations with the Largest Job Growth.
Nurses promote health, prevent disease, and help Read More...»
By Gary P Bryant
It looks exciting. The jet-powered helicopter screams across the sky, heading towards Harborview Medical Center with another critically-ill patient on board. Friends and family will probably say later that "he's lucky to be alive". The reality is that the person is alive because of the skills Read More...»
Nurse Practitioners expand the horizons of the nursing profession by providing a unique blend of nursing and medicine into their scope of practice. Initially, the University of Colorado answered a much needed call to more accessible health care for children by developing a Nurse Practitioner program in 1965. Read More...»
If you're interested in a new direction for your nursing career and are interested in ensuring that patients and their families receive quality, cost-effective health care, then you might want to look into Case Management Nursing. Case Management Nursing focuses mainly on planning and managing all aspects of patient Read More...»
Global Health concerns us all, and Community Health Nursing has risen from humble beginnings to the forefront of shaping worldwide health policy and administration. Community Health has been practiced in one form or another throughout the ages in various manners ranging from the edicts of a village shaman to "wise Read More...»
By Bill Sterzenbach
The nursing profession has witnessed tremendous changes in the last five decades. In this continually changing environment, it is important to study the trends in nursing jobs in order to determine a successful career path.
Today the demand for Registered Nurses or RNs has increased considerably, because of two Read More...»
By Alexa K. Apallas
In an uncertain economic climate, job security is a valuable commodity. But many careers that previously seemed recession-proof Read More...»
By Donna Cardillo, RN, BS
How many times have you said "I'm just a nurse" or "I'm only an RN / LPN." When I hear someone say this I'm always tempted to say, "As opposed to what? Someone with a better job, better profession, better skills?"
Nurses are multitalented individuals. We have Read More...»
by Vickie Milazzo RN, MSN, JD
When an attorney takes on a medical-related lawsuit, the attorney is confronted with enormous volumes of medical records crammed with esoteric terminology, inexplicable shorthand and indecipherable handwriting. Yet his client's (plaintiff or defense) future depends on the attorney understanding those records and using them to Read More...»
Baby Boomers are turning sixty this year. Of the 3.4 million babies born between 1946 and 1964, 2.8 are still very much alive and projected to live another twenty years -- at least. Baby Boomers currently make up over 26% of the total United States population, and their aging is Read More...»
by Sara Ellis RN, BSN
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 Read More...»
By Sara Ellis, RN, BSN
The drastic shortage of nurses for the next decade is well documented. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that an additional 450,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) will be needed to fill the present demand through 2008. By the end of the decade, 1.7 million nurses will Read More...»
Forensic Nursing is one of the fastest growing nursing specialty fields thanks in part to rising interest brought about in recent years by several popular TV shows such as CSI. Real life Forensic Nursing isn't exactly the same as what's portrayed on television though, so here is some additional information Read More...»
By Rita Henry
According to the Occupational Outlook guide, the nursing profession is among the fastest growing of all career paths. Within nursing, the single specialty expected to grow by leaps and bounds is gerontology.
The aging of the baby boomers has increased the average age of the typical patient. According Read More...»
The film "Erin Brockovich" told the true story of an inexperienced legal secretary who stumbled across some references to chromium contaminated water while researching real estate documents for her law firm. Her inquisitive mind led her to interview members of a community affected by chromium-contaminated drinking water near Pacific Gas Read More...»
