Many have spent time addressing the misuse of social media by health care professionals. True, there are dangers of using social media without a policy in place, but my guess is that there is no lack of policy at your […]
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Nursing schoolwork can be incredibly overwhelming. Here are 10 tips to help you successfully study in nursing school. 1. Get organized. During the first week of the semester, take some time to organize your school calendar with important dates. This
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In an effort to immunize children in Ecuador and Guatemala, two members from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) recently completed a global mission trip to the two developing countries. Nurse Practitioner and AANP member Dr. Kathy Wheeler went
While student loan debt has become a real problem among American adults, a recent study from the Urban Institute shows that college debt falls disproportionately on borrowers of color. In fact, 42% of African Americans ages 25 to 55 carried
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An ongoing lack of qualified nursing faculty is impacting the nation’s ongoing nursing shortage as nursing schools across the country struggle with expanding fast enough to accommodate student demand. According to a survey conducted by the American Association of Colleges
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Every year more than 400,000 serious injury cases are reported in the United States due to clinical malpractice, according to the Journal of Patient Safety. Nurses are an essential part of the health care system and patient support structure; however,
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Ask nursing students how they spend their free time and you’ll likely be met with quizzical looks. Nursing students don’t actually have much free time and the little they get is often shoehorned into a few minutes between odd working
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The Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville (SIUE) School of Nursing has partnered with Baptist Health Madisonville (Kentucky) to allow Baptist Health nurses to obtain baccalaureate degrees in nursing in as little as one year from the comfort of their own
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Mentors can be some of the most important people in your life. Perhaps one—or even more than one—has helped you during different times in your nursing career. You know the value of mentorship, and now you’d like to be one.
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Texas Lutheran University (TLU) has been aiming to achieve several goals in the field of maternal-child nursing, and with the help of a new $50,000 grant from the RGK Foundation, their goals will now be possible. TLU received the grant
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