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The Ultimate Guide to Nursing Entrance Exams

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

A nursing career continues to be an ideal profession that offers growth opportunities even in an economy that is still suffering. There is an ongoing need for nurses in a variety of disciplines in spite of the economic downturn. After all, people continue to have children, require surgeries and become ill, recession or no.

Nursing not only offers an excellent career path but gives you the flexibility to juggle family, school and other pursuits while still doing your job! Not many careers offer such a rewarding and satisfying profession while giving you that opportunity.

There are a huge number of specialties a nurse can pursue, but all nursing careers require basic training and all start with nursing entrance examinations.

Here is a complete run-down on all of the major Nursing Entrance Exams, plus exam tips, how to prepare yourself mentally for an exam and how to answer multiple choice questions.

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Nursing Career: Is It for You?

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

nurse2Looking for that perfect career, one that helps others while keeping you employed in somehting 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 the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.”

The number of nurses is as high as 2.5 million, the largest accounted workforce is made up with nurses in the clinical healthcare industry, which has be recorded and documented by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). (more…)

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What is a Nurse Anesthetist?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

medical2A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist or CRNA must have a Bachelors Degree and be a Registered Nurse with a minimum of one year of experience as an acute care nurse. It requires a graduate program that takes between two to three years to complete and although it is not a Masters Degree, you will be almost through a Masters Program with this program. (more…)

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Career as a Home Health Aide

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

nurseOne nursing alternative that many people find extremely gratifying as a career is working as a home health aide. These professionals do many of the same types of work as regular nurses–and even doctors–but in people’s homes. Primarily their clients are the elderly and those with long-term disabilities and / or illnesses. Home health aides are employed by either a health care agency or a hospital.

A home health aide provides many different services for clients. For instance, they might give baths or massages and change the client’s bandages if needed. They might help clients do exercises, get dressed, and get out of and into bed. Health aides also make sure their clients take medicine when they’re supposed to (although they can’t prescribe drugs). (more…)

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Nursing Offers Flexibility

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

n3The nice thing about a nursing career is that there is really a lot of flexibility in terms of your specialty or the type of nursing that you pursue and some specialties offer built-in flexibility in terms of hours or the ability to work from home.

For example, if you work for a home health care agency you can be on call to provide nursing services for patients who are at home. This allows you the ability to fix your own hours and work out of your home so that for people with children you can oftentimes work around your schedule to set the appointment times. (more…)

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Nursing Requires Care and Responsibility

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

pic7Being a nurse requires the responsibility and care of the patient and involves five steps no matter what type of nurse you are. These steps include assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of the patient because nurses are involved with just about all of a patient’s care.

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There is a Rising Demand for Legal Nurse Consultants

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

legalWith a huge rise in medical malpractice suits today, there is a growing need for experienced nurses who can work with attorneys, insurance companies and other organizations. Legal nurse consultants combine their nurse’s knowledge and skills with legal knowledge to offer advice in a myriad of areas.

Legal nurse consultants often work directly for law firms, insurance companies and government agencies because of the high volume of these types of cases that are often in progress at any one time. Many others work independently as contractors on individual cases and can demand fees of $100 to $100 per hour for testifying as an expert witness or for consulting fees. (more…)

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What is a Forensic Nurse?

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Forensic nursing is a relatively new type of nursing that has been identified through the need to preserve evidence with patients of violent crime. This type of nurse was not even identified until the International Association of Forensic Nurses was formed in the 1990s. The most well known type of patient might be one who has been sexually assaulted whereby the need for DNA evidence is required to bring the criminal to justice. One of these nurses would be called a sexual assault nurse examiner. (more…)

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What Does Being a Nurse Mean?

Monday, September 28th, 2009

pic8People who become nurses sometimes have no idea of what type of nurse they will be – only that they want to be a nurse and help people. A nurse is someone who will assist patients who need them at a very vulnerable time of their life because a nurse is usually the person who spends the most time with a patient.
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Becoming A Licensed Practical Nurse or Licensed Vocational Nurse

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Licensed Practical Nurses are very much in demand in lieu of America’s nursing shortage The program for becoming a Licensed Practical Nurse or Licensed Vocational Nurse is approximately one year or less Financial aid is available for this training program as well as many other sources of funding Licensed Vocational Nurses/LPN’s make only a few dollars less than Registered Nurses This is perhaps due to their scope of practice is less inclusive than that of Registered Nurses

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