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Job Journal
May 2, 2010
Arianna Jordan |
Nursing Careers come in Many Settings In sorting out your options for a nursing career, start with where you'd like to work.   |
Job Journal
April 23, 2006
Julia Hollister |
Prospective Nursing Students Need Patience Demand for nurses is growing, but so are training-school waiting lists. There is hope, however. |
Job Journal
June 24, 2007
Julia Hollister |
RNs Take Their Pick of Perks, Pay & Programs In short supply, RNs enjoy signing bonuses and generous perks. |
Job Journal
July 3, 2005
Julia Hollister |
Nursing: The Pulse of California Healthcare Desperate hospital recruiters up the ante with signing bonuses for RNs and LPNs. In fact, many hospitals, under pressure to lower costs, are using licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) in place of registered nurses wherever allowed. |
Job Journal
December 2, 2007
Julia Hollister |
No Quick Cure for Nursing Shortage Classroom congestion makes RN shortage resistant to a quick cure. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005 |
The Nurse: Melanie Weigeshoff Why the "laptop-on-a-stick" is a hard-pressed R.N.'s best friend. |
Job Journal
November 5, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Nurses Attract Generous Job Offers `Stat' The exploding demand for RNs is creating unprecedented opportunities. |
Job Journal
August 15, 2004
Pat Wooten |
Rx from an RN: Of course, nothing can substitute for actual on-the-job experience. But there are simple and inexpensive ways to thoroughly research nursing as a profession. Includes links to some useful websites. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2009
Weinberg et al. |
Original Research: 'It Depends': Medical Residents' Perspectives on Working with Nurses We sought to determine the quality of the nurse-physician relationship by examining the communication and interaction between nurses and residents from the residents' perspective. |
Job Journal
May 25, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Personal Attendant & Home Care Aide With health care costs rising and the population aging, the need is growing for skilled personal at-home care. |
Job Journal
February 6, 2005
Rich Heintz |
Golden Years Approach for Boomers... and Healthcare An aging population ensures longevity for most healthcare careers, and employment potential in a wide range of healthcare fields should be virtually unlimited. Here is a sampling of some of the more popular choices. |
Job Journal
September 24, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Health Careers Present a Bright Prognosis Quick, affordable training can buy you job security in these healthcare careers. |
American Journal of Nursing
May 2011
Pusateri et al. |
Original Research: The Role of the Non-ICU Staff Nurse on a Medical Emergency Team: Perceptions and Understanding We sought to determine the nursing staff's familiarity with and perceptions of the Medical Emergency Team at one hospital. |
Job Journal
January 18, 2009 |
Career Snapshot: Registered Nurse Registered nurses have a wealth of career opportunities to choose from. |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2011
O'Lynn & Krautscheid |
Original Research: 'How Should I Touch You?': A Qualitative Study of Attitudes on Intimate Touch in Nursing Care This study sought to elicit the attitudes of laypersons on intimate touch provided by nurses in general and male nurses in particular. |
Job Journal
November 21, 2004
Rich Heintz |
Prognosis Positive The medical field is embarking on an astonishing hiring binge. |
Nursing Management
March 2010
Becker & Schmidtke |
All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2002 |
Newsletter Awards Are Available to Increase Numbers of Nurses and Quality of Nursing Services... AHRQ Partnership Will Help Turn Research into Improved Care... CDC Report Reveals Significant Decline in Prevalence of Teenaged Smoking... etc. |
Job Journal
October 23, 2011
Arianna Jordan |
Is a Nursing Career Right for You? Healthcare is a high-demand career direction, and nurses are among the industry's key players. Their jobs are diverse, demanding and very rewarding, but definitely not for everyone. |
Nursing Management
February 2010
Chuck Fort |
So good it's unreal: The value of simulation education The advantages of simulation in healthcare education are many. |
Nursing Management
April 2009
Sharon H. Pappas |
Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2012
Smeltzer et al. |
Original Research: Interactions of People with Disabilities and Nursing Staff During Hospitalization Inadequate primary health care and screening have been identified as serious issues for people with disabilities, but little evidence exists on the nursing care of this population when hospitalized. |
Nursing Management
August 2009
Jenkins et al. |
Nursing the spirit The concept of spirituality in nursing is deeply rooted in the history of our profession, yet it's often overlooked in nursing practice. |
Job Journal
December 17, 2006 |
Career Snapshot: Psychiatric Technician Working with a team of mental health professionals, psych techs forge the primary link with patients. Job Prospects: Good. |
Job Journal
August 3, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Nurse Practitioner Nurse practitioners are essential to meet the growing need for high-level healthcare. |
Managed Care
November 2001 |
Hospitals scramble for cutting-edge personnel Aging baby boomers, fewer people choosing the medical field, and early retirements are all helping to shift hospital demand from primary care physicians to specialists, pharmacists and nurses... |
Nursing Management
December 2011
Brenda Kulhanek |
EMR development...Always be prepared Implementing an electronic medical record system offers countless benefits: major healthcare savings, reduced medical errors, improved quality of healthcare, and improved health. |
Nursing Management
April 2012
Gloria Kersey-Matusiak |
Culturally competent care: Are we there yet? What exactly is culturally competent care, and how can you use it to lessen healthcare disparities among your patients? |
Job Journal
August 12, 2007
Julia Hollister |
Home Caregivers Home health aides take a lead role in hospice and companion care for the aged. |
Information Today
October 14, 2010 |
Nursing Reference Titles Joining Ovid Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, has announced a new partnership with the American Nurses Association, the U.S.'s largest nursing professional organization, to offer a collection of its professional reference titles through OvidSP and Nursing@Ovid. |
Nursing Management
January 2011
Dawn Chiarenza |
The CNO/ROI Factor of Accreditation In a time of healthcare reimbursement changes and budget cuts, CNOs seeking Magnet recognition must be able to emphasize benefits to organizational leadership-including return on investment. |
Nursing Management
July 2007
Coyle et al. |
Dealing with Disaster Terrorism and naturally occurring catastrophic events provide fertile ground for nursing emergency preparedness, including deployment strategies. Are you ready to respond? |
Salon.com
July 25, 2001
Diana Reiss-Koncar |
The war against nurses Assaults on R.N.s are at an all-time high, but many who complain or seek help lose their jobs as hospitals blame the victims... |
Managed Care
July 2001
Maureen Glabman |
Provider Shortage Puts HMOs In Bind Increasing demand for physicians and physician extenders is starting to strain the system. To a large extent, this is unexpected bitter fruit of managed care's labor... |
Nursing Management
October 2011
Edna Cadmus |
Your role in redesigning healthcare We need to rethink how we provide care and to understand the interconnectedness and the structure of healthcare by looking at it as a whole vs. the sum of its parts. As leaders we need to view the evidence as we rethink healthcare together. |
Science News
March 28, 2009 |
Science Past For March 28, 1959 Thoughts on patient resocialization in a mental hospital during the 1950s. |
Job Journal
June 18, 2006
Julia Hollister |
Nursing Assistants Job prospects in the U.S. for nursing assistants are expected to be excellent due to increasing demand for long-term care from a retired population -- which is expected to double in the next 20 years. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2008 |
Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances. |
The Motley Fool
February 22, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Intel Frees the COWs A new tablet PC for hospitals could lead to bigger dividends for Intel. |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2007
Dawley, Loch & Bindrich |
The Nurse -- Family Partnership An overview of an evidence-based home visitation program for at-risk, first-time mothers and their children. |
Entrepreneur
July 2002
Chris Penttila |
How's Your Health? When health care is healthy, it's the industry to be in -- and the current chaos in the sector may be the opening you need. |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2009
Tim Brown |
Change By Design In his new book, Change by Design, the CEO of design shop IDEO shows how even hospitals can transform the way they work by tapping frontline staff to engineer change. |
American Journal of Nursing
December 2011
Mary K. Walton |
Supporting Family Caregivers: Communicating with Family Caregivers A transformation is under way in acute care, at least in the United States, from provider-centered care to patient- and family-centered care. |
American Journal of Nursing
June 2011
Lisa M. Black |
Original Research: Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses' Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities In 2007 and 2008, 115 patients were found to be either certainly or presumptively infected with the hepatitis C virus through the reuse of contaminated medication vials at two southern Nevada endoscopy clinics. |
Nursing Management
September 2005
Richard Hader |
How do You Measure Workforce Integrity? Behavioral hallmarks such as honesty, high ethical standards, and maintained moral principles define workforce integrity. Here, learn methods for integrating them into management practices. |
Job Journal
June 17, 2007
Michael Kinsman |
Are Employers in Denial About Growing Labor Shortage? By 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates there will be a shortfall of five to ten million workers in the US workforce. Here's a glimpse of how this reality has made life better for workers at one forward-looking company. |
American Journal of Nursing
January 2012
Andrew D. Harding |
Increasing the Use of `Smart' Pump Drug Libraries by Nurses: A Continuous Quality Improvement Project Improving the quality of nursing care, as well as the organization's culture of safety and its financial discipline, are each further reasons to support the use of smart pump technology. |
American Journal of Nursing
June 2010 |
Rapid Response Teams Seen Through the Eyes of the Nurse This article reports on the findings of an evaluation project that explored the impact of rapid response teams from the perspective of the nurses who use them-to give voice to the experience of nurses. |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Dune Lawrence |
Rose Ann DeMoro Wants Hospitals to Scream Labor firebrand Rose Ann DeMoro of California is out to build a powerful new super union. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2006
Billy Fisher |
AMN: A Cure-All for the Portfolio The health-care staffing firm may only be in the early stages of a prolonged ascent. However, before purchasing shares of this stock, investors should take into account the stock's recent run-up in price. |
