To help meet the growing demand for RNs, Iona College in New York is about to join the ranks of schools offering a BSN program. This fall, Iona will provide students with two routes to obtain a Bachelor of Science
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Nurses receive some disaster training, but as one New York nurse recently remarked, “We learned about a pandemic in school maybe for one day. Like it was literally one slide in one class…” Remedying this problem is a key concern in
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Federal and state governments, national agencies, nursing schools, and hospitals need to create a better pandemic support structure for nurses, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. As nurses are expected to provide care
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“Time management has been my best friend,” says Nurse of the Week Cailly Simpson. Although she left nursing in 2017 to study law at Rutgers, when the pandemic hit, the 26-year-old immediately felt an instinctive need to help. While continuing
The benefits of certification can include “greater career success and satisfaction including higher pay, greater opportunity for advancement, and higher employability as well as higher self-efficacy,” according to a report by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nurses (BCEN). In
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When she was just four years old, Taylor had a hairsbreadth escape when her family’s apartment in New York City’s SoHo caught fire. After rescuing Taylor’s mother from the blaze, firefighter Eugene Pugliese rushed back into the building when the
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Nurse of the Week Danielle Fenn understands the vital role of communication in nursing. Fenn, an RN at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, is originally from Brazil, and during the COVID crisis she used her knowledge of Portuguese
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School may be closed, but nursing students have continued to learn while working on the COVID-19 frontlines. Most find that they are more dedicated than ever in the wake of the pandemic. Now in her third year at University of
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Nurses are generating a host of innovations to resolve healthcare pain points during the age of COVID. At the Nurse Hack 4 Health virtual hackathon, a project to make telehealth more accessible to rural Americans and a “GPS” that helps
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Nurse of the Week Ben Busey is no stranger to crises. In addition to working as an Urgent Care Nurse Manager at the Roseburg VA Medical Center in Oregon, Busey is also a part of the VA’s Disaster Emergency Medical
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