When people consider job opportunities for nurses, they usually think about the same handful of possibilities: hospital nursing, assisting a private physician, or perhaps teaching at a nursing school. But here are five options that are often overlooked. Clinical Research Associate (or CRA): This career path could find you working for contract research organizations (CROs) [...]
Aug 10, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post
Looking for that perfect career, one that helps others while keeping you employed in something you enjoy doing? Maybe nursing is for you. By definition, nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in [...]
Studying for a nursing career sound glamorous in some respects because your motive is usually that you want to help people – therefore you are becoming a nurse. But what kind of person wants to be a nurse? In other words – what are the characteristics of a good nurse?
May 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
When you picture a nurse you like to think of someone that is compassionate and caring and listens to you without complaint – these are qualities that are essential for a nurse but there are many more if you want to be well perceived by your patients. A nurse is someone that takes care of [...]
Nadeen was a young woman intent on becoming a nurse. It’s something that she’d been planning since her freshman year in high school. Unfortunately, she made the mistake of not starting looking for a good nursing program until the second semester of her senior year. She finally got accepted into a nursing program, only to [...]
Apr 20, 2011 | 2 comments | View Post
If you’ve decided that you want to be involved in nursing, but don’t want the impersonal hospital setting, then a good alternative is that of the home health aide. These compassionate individuals provide all of the care that someone with disabilities needs, in order to live a normal life at home. How, though, do you [...]
Apr 15, 2011 | 2 comments | View Post
Elsewhere on this blog, we’ve discussed what a licensed practical nurse is and what she does. Now let’s talk about why you might want to be an LPN, and how to do so. First, pursuing a career as a practical nurse is smart because it offers you job security. The U.S. Department of Labor says [...]
Apr 12, 2011 | 5 comments | View Post
Your nursing in career will start with your nursing education. That means that first, you’ll need to find a program that fits with your personal needs, schedule, and your future expectations. We can divide nursing programs into two categories: accredited ones and non-accredited ones. An accredited nursing school is one which has been reviewed by [...]
Mar 28, 2011 | 7 comments | View Post
Our increasingly dysfunctional world has at least one positive side: It has created a fast-growing career field for those interested in a job in a mental health profession. This is as true for the mental health nurse as it is for the psychiatrist. Getting onto that career path, of course, means passing the PMHN (Psychiatric [...]
Sep 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
When schools and companies want to determine how well a person will be able to adapt to new circumstances they frequently use aptitude tests. Aptitude tests gauge a person’s ability to apply knowledge they already have to handle situations they may have previously never encountered. An aptitude test may identify a certain skill set that a person [...]
Jun 26, 2011 | 7 comments | View Post
Test anxiety is a common phenomenon among students, especially since it can often determine whether you have to retake a class or not. Not all test anxiety is bad though. In fact, a healthy amount of test anxiety can actually encourage you to study harder and at least shows that you care about doing well [...]
Jun 15, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Once you’ve made the decision to pursue a career as a midwife, the next task is figure out the correct path to take toward your goal. No matter how you do it, though, three elements will be required: you’ll be expected to pass the midwife exam, you’ll be expected to have proper accreditation, and depending [...]
In the healthcare world, CHES stands for “Certified Health Education Specialist Exam.” It’s an exam which serves as a tool that measures a person’s possession, interpretation and application of knowledge in seven specific areas that are required of health educators. See the Official CHES Site. Passing the exam means that the person has at least [...]
Aug 25, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
Although the majority of people who become nurses do so because they like providing direct care to their patients, others prefer a more indirect route–the area of patient education. A career as a certified diabetes educator, or CDE, allows you to do just that.
Mar 29, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post
The growing career field of nursing has intersected with the information age in the 2000′s to create a fulfilling opportunity called nursing informatics–a branch of health informatics.
The Internet has been a godsend for job searchers. It makes it possible to find jobs that fit your skills, all across the country. But the Internet does more than that. There are also plenty of websites that help you with the actual preparation of your resume. Here are the 10 best that we’ve found [...]
Jul 02, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
Last year, “Rachel” graduated from her nursing program and immediately began complaining about how hard it was to find a job in nursing. Six months later, she had landed a position as a school nurse, while friends with other career goals were still looking. Reality had slapped her in the face: In this economy, jobs [...]
May 30, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
As with almost all other employment areas, applying to become a nurse has now been made easier thanks to the Internet. That’s because there are now now an abundance of places where you can fill out an online application, which will then be considered by those who do the hiring at various hospitals, clinics, etc. [...]
Many nurses want a change from the daily routine of being a nurse in a hospital setting or a doctor’s office and want to assume a leadership role and one that offers them more independence. Becoming a Nurse Educator is a career path that offers the opportunity to work in a school setting and teach [...]
May 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Our increasingly dysfunctional world has at least one positive side: It has created a fast-growing career field for those interested in a job in a mental health profession. This is as true for the mental health nurse as it is for the psychiatrist. Getting onto that career path, of course, means passing the PMHN (Psychiatric [...]
Sep 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
The growing career field of nursing has intersected with the information age in the 2000′s to create a fulfilling opportunity called nursing informatics–a branch of health informatics.
Once you’ve made the decision to pursue a career as a midwife, the next task is figure out the correct path to take toward your goal. No matter how you do it, though, three elements will be required: you’ll be expected to pass the midwife exam, you’ll be expected to have proper accreditation, and depending [...]
A Licensed Vocational Nurse or LVN normally works under the supervision of a physician or a Registered Nurse, but the duties and licensing vary from state to state. Generally the program is approximately twelve to fourteen months depending on the state for licensure and is a stepping stone to becoming a registered nurse. The LVN [...]
Oct 31, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
In this computer age, it stands to reason that more tests would utilize computer technology. And that’s exactly what’s happening. There are two main categories of computerized tests. The first is the CBE or computer-based exam. The CBE is much like a standard pencil / paper exam, in that the same questions are presented to [...]
High test scores can mean the difference between getting into the Nursing School you want. How do you really prepare for a test? For starters, thorough preparation begins long before you take the actual test. Nursing Entrance Tests like the NET, HESI, PSB or DET can be tricky if you are not prepared. Nursing Certification Tests are [...]
Jul 03, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Test anxiety is a common phenomenon among students, especially since it can often determine whether you have to retake a class or not. Not all test anxiety is bad though. In fact, a healthy amount of test anxiety can actually encourage you to study harder and at least shows that you care about doing well [...]
Jun 15, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Test anxiety is only natural because in most classes how well you do on your tests can determine whether you pass or fail the class. While studying the material and getting the facts you need well in mind is important, mental preparation for a test is equally if not more important than just knowing the facts [...]
Physiology and Anatomy questions are on the following tests: PSB, HESI, TEAS, CWS, NNAAP, NBCOPA, NP 1. An example of human homeostasis is _______________. Metabolism Adrenalin Hormones Fluid Balance 2. Human homeostasis is the ability of the body to regulate its _______________ in response to fluctuations in the environment outside [...]
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Multiple choice tests are simply a fact of life when it comes to test formats. Nursing Certification and Nursing Entrance Tests are basically all multiple choice and if it is your plan to go to one of the more well known colleges or universities it is imperative that you learn how to score well on [...]
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