The health care crisis resulting from the current nursing shortage continues to worsen across the country. Some experts have estimated that more than 1.7 million new nurses will be needed by the year 2020. In some parts of the country, […]
Linda Smith, BSN, RN, MBA, remembers the exact date and time that she decided to start her own health care college. It was 1:05 a.m. on July 31, 1991, when Smith says God called her by name. Smith, a native
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Deborah Dawson, MSN, RN, is a special nurse with a very special career. As a clinical trials research nurse for the Diversity Enhancement Program (DEP) at Ohio State University’s Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute–known
Even though it happened almost 30 years ago, Azella Collins, MSN, RN, can still remember one of the first patients she encountered when she was a young community health nurse working for a visiting nurses association. The man was living
Ronnie Ursin, BSN, RN, BS, figured there would be a lot to learn when he moved from his nursing job on a medical/surgical floor to a cardiac intensive care unit–and he was right. It was like night and day, he
For most people, an emergency room visit or a extended stay in a hospital’s intensive care unit is a trying, perhaps even frightening experience. So imagine going through the same ordeal while looking up into the faces of health care
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Peter Teboh, RN, MBA, MPH The ever-increasing nursing shortage and the need for more nurses of color who can provide culturally competent care to an increasingly multicultural population has prompted colleges and universities to create alternative pathways into the nursing
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Traditionally, the path to a PhD in nursing has resembled the proverbial long and winding road. RNs interested in continuing their professional education would go back to school and get a BSN degree, then work in the clinical setting for
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There is an urgent health care crisis affecting America’s communities at a distressing rate. As health care providers, we must generate a course of action to address this emergency. No, this is not another article about the nursing shortage. What
In 1952, during the American Nurses Association and National League for Nursing joint convention in Atlantic City, a group of over 1,000 student nurses from 43 states voted to establish a national membership organization that would provide America’s nursing students
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