Choosing the Right Avenue for Your Nursing Career
New nurses have a variety of choices and decisions to make when it comes to selecting an avenue for their nursing career. From working in large teaching facilities to practicing in smaller rural and community hospitals, it is important to choose the setting that most closely matches your needs, career goals and personality characteristics as a new RN.
New Graduates Can Plan Financial Security Starting Now
Bills.com's six steps to starting financial life on the right foot
When finals are over, the dorm room is packed and friends are on their way to that first step on the career ladder, today's college graduates are in the perfect position to start their personal financial lives on the right foot, said Ethan Ewing, president of Bills.com (http://www.bills.com/).
Older Nurse Graduates Find Their Niche
Many of today’s students entering nursing schools are older than in years past. It is now common for schools to enroll students in their 30s, 40s and even 50s. While many of those entering nursing as older students are looking for a second or third career that offers job security, others are joining the ranks to fulfill a lifelong dream.
Online Mentoring Programs Provide Support to New Nurses
Between the nation’s nursing shortage, heavy workloads and a lack of guidance and support, many new nurses end up leaving the profession within their first year on the job. But new nurse mentoring programs are popping up all across the country with the intention of providing guidance, support and advice, while preventing new nurses from leaving the profession.
Residency Programs Offer Benefits for RNs and Hospitals
“There is a big gap between completing nursing school and being ready to work with patients,” according to Charles Krozak, RN, MN, president and managing director of Versant, a company that has developed an outcome-driven RN residency program.
Hyperbaric Nursing: A Growing Specialty
Hyperbaric medicine, also known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO), could use more nurses. The treatment best known for wound healing with other off-label uses is now offered in between 750 and 1,000 U.S. hospitals.