National Nurses Week is celebrated annually by nurses, nursing organizations, and healthcare facilities form May 6 to 12. This event, which coincides with Florence Nightingale’s birthday, is a great occasion to give gifts for nurses. Nurses mostly receive small presents from…
Learning and earning a nursing degree online is fast becoming popular among adult learners. Here are 3 questions that people commonly ask and their corresponding answers. Is an online nursing degree recognized? Online learning in nursing meets the rigorous standards of quality…
When Valerie Williams earned the BSN in 1987, it was not necessarily the frequently travelled path. Her mother, in fact, was the one to encourage Valerie to pursue more than an Associate Degree of Nursing, the standard at the time.…
I recently received the 2012 Nurse in Washington Internship (NIWI) student registration scholarship. I exercised my first amendment right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances” and traveled to Washington, DC on February 26-28, 2012. I joined nurses…
I was recently asked to speak to a group of nurses about professional development. I asked how much time I would have with them, hoping it would be an 8-hour day. But I was told I would have only one…
We’ve all been hearing about advancing our nursing education and why a BSN degree isn’t entirely enough. Does it really matter if we have an MSN degree? Yes. Let me tell you the top ten reasons why: Bragging Rights. You don’t have…
Pam Cormier has a way with children, which is perhaps what led her into pediatric nursing. She started her career at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston in 1991, and over the next 14 years, she worked her way up to manage the…
After Nicole Marks earned her BSN from the University of Montana in 2000, she never thought she’d have a desire or a need to return to school. The daughter of a nurse, Nicole joined her current employer, Providence St. Patrick Hospital,…
What is the status of job outlook for nurses right now? Some reports say there is an epidemic of nursing shortage presently going on. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing enumerated on their Nursing Shortage Fact Sheet several indicators of this problem. One indicator…
For nearly two decades, Rita Haxton has worked in nursing leadership and executive roles. While she got her start on a telemetry unit and in critical care, Rita quickly made her way into management. “I found out very soon in…