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Careers In Focus

To become a private duty nurse you have to become an RN or LPN first. After becoming qualified for home care nursing jobs, you'll be able to provide individual care for patients who require nursing services in their home.

Physicians prescribe private duty nursing for patients with injuries, physical or mental conditions warranting additional coverage, and certain other illnesses. RNs and LPNs can build an independent [...]
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Every year on May 6th we kick off National Nurses Week. Then we wrap it up on May 12th, which happens to be the birthday of Florence Nightingale. This event has been created and put into place to recognize nurses from the past, present, and future, as great contributors to society and humanity overall. May 8th, 1998, was designated to be National Student Nurses Day. [...]
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Advice for Nursing Students
There are several things to consider when beginning nursing school. Becoming a nurse requires a commitment to hard work and starting out on the right foot will make a world of difference in your school experience. One important consideration for any nursing student is to establish a strong support system. This includes family members, as study time certainly takes away from family [...]
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Do you enjoy helping others through providing quality patient care as a registered nurse as well as exploring new and exciting destinations? Well, consider joining thousands of nurses like you who get to explore the country while earning a comfortable living. The industry continues to flourish and traveling nurses now have a day dedicated to them – Travel Nurse Day.

Travel nurses have earned this special [...]
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Here are some interview tips for nurses and candidates to help answer nursing school interview questions.
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To complete my Masters in Nursing Education, I recently finished a clinical instruction with soon-to-be graduated BSN nurses. The students I instructed were very talented, smart, energetic, and ready to face the reality of caring for patients.

But they all had one common concern...

How do they get BSN jobs in the first place?

The current state of the economy has not been conducive for many new nurses [...]
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The New Zealand health system isn't immune, and I bet the States isn't either, or the Australian. You see, we've all got something in common. We've either got an indigenous people, or at the very least a group of people who migrated to our respective countries before us white people did. This means you probably have a racist healthcare system. At least that's what the [...]
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I recently watched Fox News for the first time. I was disgusted by how biased and uninformed their reporting was. Here's the scenario, it painted all nurses in a bad light.

A 14-year-old girl rings up an abortion clinic and says she wants an abortion. She lets slip that her partner is 30 years old. The girl asks the nurse, "Will you tell my parents?" The [...]
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A nurse never wants to face a HIPAA violation.

I've never experienced the ramifications of such a violation personally, but I have seen the aftermath when others have been suspected.

Often the violation stems from one of man's greatest assets: curiosity.  We're geared for acquiring knowledge; yet some things we might be better off being unaware of completely.

Once on the unit I was working, a staff [...]
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What was I thinking?

What is the point of getting my Masters? After one class and I was ready to tell the tutor where to go.

"You haven't learned how to think critically," said Mrs. Crump.

"Ah, I'm still not sure what you mean by thinking critically," I said.

I'd been working in an east London hospital on an agency shift. I'd been left with eight acute [...]
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