How to Choose the Right First Job
With graduation on the horizon for student nurses all across the country, it's important to begin preparing for the job hunt ahead. Luckily for new RNs, your skills are in high demand, with nurses desperately needed in all types of healthcare facilities —especially in the hospital setting.
First-Year Nursing Student Fears MRSA Exposure at Clinicals
Reader Cordelia asks:
My first clinical assignment tomorrow is to care for a patient with MRSA. I have a 5-year-old son and I'm concerned I might inadvertently infect my son with MRSA. How would you suggest I approach providing care for highly contagious patients such as this one? Also, how would you suggest I communicate these types of concerns with my nursing instructor, preceptor or manager in the future?
Unique Career Choices Open Doors for Nurses
While nursing once appealed only to those who wanted to provide bedside care, the profession has drastically changed and today provides a number of diverse career options. Nurses now have options that range from crime investigation to trauma care at 2,500 feet above the ground.
Student Nurses' Class Project Becomes a Law
What if your teacher asked you to influence public policy in your state? What would you do? Could you succeed? Those questions were pondered two summers ago by a group of graduate nursing students at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s School of Nursing. The students were challenged to develop some type of public policy and present it to a lawmaker.
One Minute Clinicals: Kidney Disease
Kidney Disease
According to a recent publication by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), most of the 26 million Americans who have kidney problems don't know it.
NP Student to Advise Air Force About Neonatal Care
Upon graduation as a master’s prepared nurse practitioner this spring, Capt. Heather Dahmer, RN, BSN, will serve for three years as a consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General, advising him about best practices for neonatal services and developing standards of care at Air Force hospitals.