With the baby boomers now rapidly approaching retirement age and more and more people living longer, our aging population needs nurses who are trained to understand the complexities of their needs. A career as a gerontology nurse is therefore one that can be rewarding and fill an urgent need. Read the rest of this entry »
Help an Aging Population as a Gerontology Nurse
August 30th, 2010Eligibility for the CHES
August 25th, 2010
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. Passing the exam means that the person has at least an entry-level competency in these seven areas. Read the rest of this entry »
A Psychiatric Nursing Career
August 20th, 2010
Few jobs can be more challenging than dealing with mentally ill patients so it takes a certain type of dedicated person who wants to pursue that avenue as a career. Assisting these mentally impaired patients with their medication and helping them to cope with their illness requires a strong-willed individual who is able to be effective under difficult circumstances. Read the rest of this entry »
A Nursing Educator is a Good Career Choice
August 15th, 2010With an aging population a career as a nursing educator promises a career path that will give you the opportunity to combine your knowledge of nursing with your desire to teach upcoming nurses. Many potential nursing candidates are unable to apply to some schools because of a shortage of nursing educators. Read the rest of this entry »
3 Career Options for Nurses You Might Have Overlooked
August 10th, 2010When 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) or pharmaceutical companies. While not popular in other parts of the world, in the West, particularly the U.S. and Europe, careers in this field abound. That’s because here, clinical research thrives and is widespread and drug companies also abound. Read the rest of this entry »
Have You Considered Becoming a Pediatric Nurse?
July 15th, 2010
If you like children and want to work with them you might want to consider becoming a pediatric nurse that will give you the opportunity to specialize in this area. A pediatric nurse is in direct contact with children every day and able to care and comfort them when they are ill or have another medical condition that takes them to the hospital. Read the rest of this entry »
Your New Career as a Nursing Instructor
July 12th, 2010
Many people in many professions feel that, buried deep inside of them, is a teacher, or a mentor, waiting to burst forth, to share the knowledge they have. This is as true for nurses as anywhere else. A significant number of nurses have the ability within them to train the next generation of nurses to be great in their field. These people should consider a career as a nursing instructor. Read the rest of this entry »
Nursing Career Option: Certified Diabetes Educator
July 7th, 2010
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.
With obesity a growing epidemic in the west, more people than ever are suffering from type II diabetes. To help deal with this epidemic, more nurse-educators are needed. A certified diabetes educator takes part in a career that is increasingly in demand. Plus, you have something of a choice: You can decide whether to work in a hospital setting, for a private physician, or with a public health department. Read the rest of this entry »
The Internet’s Best Resume Preparation Sites
July 2nd, 2010
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 (in no particular order):
20 Great Tips for Finding a Job in Nursing
May 30th, 2010
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 in all career fields are scarce, but jobs in nursing are more plentiful than on many other career paths.
Indeed, for the past decade, every study has reached the same conclusion: Nursing is expected to continue adding jobs at an impressive rate, especially as the population grows older and people live long enough to encounter more physical ailments. And what variety there is for those wanting to be a nurse! There are positions in burn care, ambulatory care, emergency rooms, developmental disabilities, home care, geriatrics, medical telemetry, intensive care, mother / baby care, oncology, pediatrics, operating room, psychiatric nursing, recovery room, psychiatric nursing, rehabilitation, school nursing, hospital floor nurse, and more.
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