Nursing Career

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Tips for Advancing in Your Nursing Career

As a registered nurse, you’ve committed your time and energy to make people feel better. You have made an impact in your field to treat patients with attentive care and establish positive connections with them. You have also supported and managed teamwork with your healthcare coworkers as you’ve

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Memory-Boosting Tips to Help You Succeed in the Medical Field

After completing years of memorizing terminology, details of what makes a healthy human body, numerous medical conditions, treatment procedures, you're now working in the field. While working in your healthcare setting, you need to put what you’ve learned into practice. However, how can you possibly remember every

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Tips for New Nurses Starting During the Pandemic

You’ve completed your training, and now it’s time to enter the nursing workforce. Entering the healthcare workforce is already intimidating because you need to remember all the medical information and techniques you've learned from schooling. You need to act confidently in front of patients to earn

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Tips for Becoming a Better Nurse

Being a nurse is a great career because you’re part of a growing profession in the medical field, and you also get to see your efforts have a tangible, positive effect on your patients every day. The thing about this is that many other career-minded people are taking note

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Cardiac Arrest vs. Heart Attack vs. Stroke

Most people have heard of heart attacks, strokes and cardiac arrest. What they often don’t know is what the difference is between each of these serious medical conditions. If you are heading into the health care field, you’ll need to know much more than the lay person in

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Where (and How) to Get a Nursing Scholarship

Knowing you want to become a nurse is one thing. Actually making that happen is an entirely different ballgame. To put it plainly, nursing school isn’t cheap. Depending on what type of nurse you aspire to become (CNA, RNA, LPN, RN, etc.), the price tag can range anywhere from

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ACLS Standards: Post-Cardiac Arrest Best Practices

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), 475,000 Americans die each and every year due to cardiac arrest. What’s more, about 90% of people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (approximately 350,000) will lose their lives as a result. Conversely, nearly 45% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims

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New Nurses: How to Develop Strong and Marketable Leadership Skills

New Nurses: How to Develop Strong and Marketable Leadership Skills For nurses who are just starting their career, the thought of rising into a position of leadership can seem like a far-off goal. But while climbing the ranks certainly takes time and often additional education, it’s never too early

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How to Advance Your Career from CNA to RN

There comes a time for many Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) when climbing the ladder to become a Registered Nurse (RN) just makes sense. Whether you’ve hit the point where you’re ready to learn more and advance, you’re motivated by the additional opportunities and bump in pay, or

Medical Career

5 Tips for Protecting Your Nursing License

Let’s face it. We’re all human, which means we are all prone to making the occasional error. The problem is, when those errors occur in a medical setting and it’s a nurse committing them on the job, it can lead to a whole bunch of problems, up

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Best Practices When Submitting Nursing School Applications

Spring has officially sprung, which means hopeful nursing school applicants are already hard at work, polishing off their interview skills and trying to find whatever leg up they can to increase their odds of being accepted into the program of their choice. Obviously, grades play a pivotal role in determining

Nurse Tips

8 Must-Know Medications for ICU Nurses

According to the CDC, each year nearly 137 million people in the U.S. alone visit an emergency room. Of those ER visits, 12.3 million will end up admitted to the hospital and 1.5 million will result in admission to a critical care unit. The very lives of

Nurse Tips

Social Media Rules for Nurses – Covering All Your Bases

Let’s face it. Social media has become an integral part of our lives, both personally and professionally. But while individuals in some industries may enjoy free reign when it comes to posting publicly, those in the health care industry must adhere to much more stringent rules. In fact, the

Nurse Tips

8 Ways to Stand Out as a Nurse

Congratulations! All the hard work you put in to complete nursing school has finally paid off. Whether you’re entering your first year or you’ve been plugging away for a while, the next logical step is carving out a name for yourself. After all, you’re certainly not the

Nurse Tips

10 Tips for Surviving Your First Year of Nursing

As a newly certified nurse, you may have thought the toughest road you had to face in your new career was finishing school. While that was certainly a challenge, many seasoned nurses will be the first to tell you that it’s the initial year in nursing that can be

Medical Career

10 Hardest-to-Fill Jobs in Heath Care

Most people are well aware of the fact that there is currently a significant shortage of nursing professionals. But, nurses aren’t the only health care industry role that is becoming increasingly difficult to fill. In fact, experts are already predicting a shortage of nearly 11,000 doctors and surgeons

Nursing Career

How to Calm Your Nerves and Nail Your First Nursing Interview

As an aspiring nurse, you may feel you’ve already mastered the art of managing your emotions. When it comes to patient care, you are calm, confident and capable. But for many new nurses, that ability to manage stress and anxiety does not necessarily translate over to the interview process.

Nursing Career

The A to Z of Head-to-Toe Assessments

Working in the medical field requires a great amount of memorization and recall – a particularly challenging feat when you are faced with managing an emergency situation. In these instances, every second does, indeed, count. The ability to quickly and accurately determine a patient’s status ensures the proper care is

Nursing Career

5 In-Demand Careers in Health Care that Don’t Require a Degree

The health care industry can be both lucrative in terms of salary potential as well as rewarding from an emotional standpoint. Many people shy away from a career in the medical field, however, because they believe it’s not possible to be successful without a college degree. There are many

Nursing Career

8 Steps to Bring Your Nursing Career to the Next Level

Nursing can be a very rewarding profession that offers a number of great benefits, including flexibility and job security. Nurses can be found in a wide variety of settings, from hospitals and doctors’ offices to nursing homes, long-term care facilities and even schools. But as with any career, there often

Nursing Career

What’s Your Style? 5 Nursing Leadership Styles

Being a good leader is important in any industry, but in the healthcare field the stakes get exponentially higher. That’s because it can indirectly impact the level of patient care that providers deliver. Think about it. People perform better when they are happy and feel valued. Satisfied employees are

Nursing Career

Career Options for Registered Nurses in 2018

Thinking about becoming a registered nurse? There’s never been a better time to enter this field, particularly given the many career opportunities that are currently available to qualified nursing professionals.

Nursing Career

Nursing Continuing Education Credits: Frequently Asked Questions

One of the requirements of being in the nursing profession is ongoing education. This ensures that you remain up-to-date and knowledgeable about any and all industry changes so that you can continuously deliver optimal care to your patients. Let’s take a look at a few of the most commonly

Nursing Career

6 Ways to Further Your Nursing Career

You became a nurse because you care about helping others. You also care about yourself, which is reflected in the commitment and drive you have for improving yourself, both personally as well as professionally. Whether you just entered the field of nursing or you’ve been practicing for decades, there

Nursing Career

RN vs. BSN – What’s the Difference?

In real life, nursing is much more complicated than what you see on TV and in the movies. There are various different levels of a nursing career as well as different credentials. To clarify things, we recently shared a blog post that highlighted the differences between an LPN (licensed practical