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RN Talk
What is the current state of nursing today? Find out the latest on and about nurses and nursing, and join the conversation about ratios, shortages and anything else involving nurses. E’Louise Ondash, RN, answers all of your questions and provides some insight.

Body Scans: Preventive Medicine or a Precursor to Problems?

Maybe you’ve seen the fliers floating around your neighborhood, delivered with your newspaper, distributed at your church or dispensed at the local senior center. The headline on some iridescent colored paper, in bold black letters, might read something like “How do you know you don’t have a ‘silent’ tumor unless you look?”These typical scare tactics are used to hawk total body scans using

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Ask the Expert
Ask questions, get answers and find out all you need to know about this fascinating career alternative for nurses. Shalon Weddington, RN, MSN, a former travel nurse and published author on the topic, answers your questions.

Finding Services and Travel-Related Resources

I want to try travel nursing, but I am nervous about leaving home. If I go somewhere new, how will I know who to trust for my repairs and services?I know where to go for everything that I need. I have spent a long time figuring out what companies are reliable, who to take my car to for repairs etc. Any advice?I know this sounds scary, but you may find that you won’t actually need that many

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Campus Corner
Student nurse, Cassie Applegate, answers questions, responds to comments and offers plenty of insight for student nurses on all things related to nursing school.

NCLEX-RN Exam Jitters

Tomorrow morning I am driving by myself to the nearest city to take the NCLEX-RN exam. I opted not to take this trip with friends or family members, because I knew that I would need to focus and internalize my thoughts to the big test ahead. The whole nursing school journey I have made to this point has all been due to my own hard work and ambition. It seems fitting that I will once again be

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