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Recent Posts
All I Want for Christmas is My Nursing Degree
“All I want for Christmas is my BSN…my MSN…my PhD…all I want for Christmas is my nursing degree!” So what’s stopping you? Whether it takes one year or four years to acquire that coveted nursing degree, the sooner ...
Emergency Room Nursing Through the Holidays
The holiday season may be a time of cheer and goodwill for some, but it’s also a dangerous time. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, about 12,500 patients are treated in emergency rooms for holiday decorating incidents. C...
RN to MSN Bridge Programs: Taking the Fast Track to Success
Why wait to get your Master’s of Science in Nursing degree when you can take the first step on the path right now? You don’t need to plod through a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing program first; just choose a Bridge program and kill two birds...
New Horizons for Paramedics
Ever since the 1970’s Emergency! series, TV shows about emergency health care providers have popularized the field for ordinary Americans. Today’s generation of middle school students may not know the difference between a paramedic and an emerge...
Three Ways New Nurses Can Beat the Recession
The web is teeming with dire reports of mass layoffs and rocketing unemployment rates. Although nursing may not have been hit as hard as other professions, it’s still scary to contemplate the recession-pocked job market that awaits after gradu...
Going Into Private Practice as a Nurse
Burned-out nurses cite many reasons for quitting: stress, lack of respect from other health care professionals, and poor working conditions are a few of the most common. Rarely do nurses say that they just got bored with nursing or that they stopped...

