career

Alternative nursing careers. We hear quite often as of late that although there’s a nursing shortage, it’s still difficult to obtain employment. Well, maybe it’s due to boxing ourselves into what we think we’re supposed to be doing as nurses and perusing the limited job openings at area hospitals. We’ve mentioned quite often on RN.FM…

Ready to quit your job as a staff nurse, or are you thinking about nursing options after graduation? Looking for ways to branch out, but want to keep working with amazing people? It might be worth considering a career as a travel nurse. You choose where you want to go to fill a hospital’s short-term…

Are you among the many in the workforce employed in a job that you don’t like? And, are you in a situation where you feel you’re digging in further year after year and the likelihood of a transition is becoming more difficult? You feel trapped or that it’s too late to make a move. Well,…

Have you ever started on an educational or career path having your sites set on that ONE “thing” that you were going to pursue and you couldn’t imagine doing anything else? Well, there seems to be quite a bit of passion in nursing school among the students about what area of nursing they want to…

New grad status: Simple advice for succeeding at your first job. You’ve graduated, passed your nursing boards, and landed your first job as a nurse. Congratulations. Your first nursing job is not only about being able to perform the job, but also about making the vital connections with your co-workers and corporate culture to improve…

Nursing as a profession is older than many people believe. The deaconess Fabiola played a role in ancient Rome – she established the first Christian hospital in Rome. In fact, in ancient Rome, nurses – almost always female – ran hospitals and did home visits. Midwives existed in the earliest societies. However, the preferred “nurse”…

Nurses have always been dedicated to the support and delivery of optimal patient care, and informatics nurses are no different – they simply use information technology to achieve their purpose. Integrating 21st-century technology into the healthcare industry is a monumental process, as complex as it is imperative, and necessitating the development of an entire industry.…

  Even in a troubled economy, medical careers are always in demand. However, hospitals with stretched budgets can’t always afford to hire all the full-time staff they need, or sometimes the full-time positions are in areas to which many qualified nurses simply aren’t able to move permanently. Whether you’re pursuing a PhD in nursing degree…

In February 2013, U.K. doctors and researchers published a study finding the happier a hospital’s staff is, the more quality care provided. If you work in a hospital or have a degree in nursing education, you won’t find this to be a surprising observation, considering how stressful working in the medical field is. If the…