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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With an aging population a career as a nurse 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.
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) [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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