Nurses, like many professionals, build their confidence by learning, asking questions, and then doing. However, according to a Fidelity Investments® Money FIT Nurses Study, more than half of nurses surveyed (56%) say they lack confidence in making financial decisions. But Alexandra […]
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Four students from the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) School of Nursing have been selected to participate in the Veterans Affairs Learning Opportunity Residency (VALOR) program at the Marion VA Hospital. The students will rotate through each hospital unit as
Dr. Marilyn Wideman has recently been named Associate Dean of Online Programs at Kaplan University School of Nursing. After starting her career as a graduate RN from St. Luke’s School of Nursing in St. Louis, Wideman went on to earn
“There is a fabulously important role for the hyperbaric nurse to assist with care coordination,” says Nicholas Bird, MD, a physician with Duke Health in Durham, North Carolina, and the former chief medical officer and CEO of Divers Alert Network.
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The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) will celebrate its last class to receive a bachelor of science in nursing on July 22, marking 30 years of offering the degree and celebrating more than 5,000 graduates who have begun their
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Philip Urtz took to Facebook to thank his wife Jessica, a stroke nurse who regularly works 14-hour days. His tribute to her begins with, “This is my wife Jessica having dinner after a 14 hour day. She comes home from
A critical portion of what Vathany Chea learned in the nursing program at Fresno State University in Fresno, California, didn’t occur in the classroom, but rather in the School of Nursing’s Mobile Health Unit that provides free health screenings. The
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With the help of an $870,000 grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst will be developing a program to train student nurses in screening, brief intervention,
The use of telemedicine first came about as a popular solution for medical access in rural areas, but a new pilot program from Rutgers is focusing on underserved populations in public housing. When telemedicine is used appropriately, it has a
Janet Patterson, 64, has worked as a nurse for over a quarter of a century. After graduating from Santa Rosa Junior College, she worked in adult telemetry/step-down ICU, helping to implement a number of new programs at her hospital, including
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