America’s Nursing Schools Face Capacity Issues
Feb. 5, 2010 - The nursing shortage has been at the forefront of America's health care issues for several years. An aging, soon-to-retire nursing workforce and an aging baby boomer population with greater health needs are converging to create a situation of less supply and greater demand for qualified nurses. And health insurance reform, if and when it happens, could add millions more patients to the list of those needing services.
Hurst Review Services Joins with AACN to Launch a New Nursing Scholarship Program
Jan. 29, 2010 - Hurst Review Services, a leading NCLEX®-RN review course provider, is partnering with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to launch a new scholarship program for students in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs. Two scholarships in the amount of $2,500 each will be awarded to nursing students prior to the Spring and Fall semesters with the first scholarship application deadline set for January 31, 2010.
NCLEX Sample Questions: Glomerulonephritis and Tardive Dyskinesia
Question 1. A patient with a diagnosis of glomerulonephritis with fluid retention might have which of the following laboratory values?
1-MINUTE CLINICALS: Wound Assessment Tool
Need a quick and easy way to remember how to accurately assess a wound? Look no further: the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) has developed a pressure ulcer treatment protocol (2008), using a mnemonic to guide you through the assessment process:
NCSBN Board of Directors Raises the Passing Standard for the NCLEX
Jan. 7, 2010 - The National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. (NCSBN) voted on Dec. 10, 2009, to raise the passing standard for the NCLEX-RN Examination (the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses). The new passing standard is -0.16 logits on the NCLEX-RN logistic scale, 0.05 logits higher than the previous standard of -0.21. The new passing standard will take effect on April 1, 2010, in conjunction with the 2010 NCLEX-RN Test Plan.
New Nurses Feel Unprepared to Focus on Quality Improvement
Jan. 5, 2010 - Although nursing administrators and other health care leaders have placed a strong emphasis on quality improvement, many new nurses enter the profession feeling "poorly" or "very poorly" prepared by their nursing education programs to implement quality improvement measures, according to new research findings. In fact, 12.6 percent reported never having heard of the widely-used term now at the forefront of health reform discussions.