Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN The COVID-19 pandemic has required workplaces and individuals to drastically change their lives, habits and how they do business. Perhaps no industry was more immediately impacted than hospitals and healthcare, and no workforce more …
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Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN The gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic hit home early for students in graduate nursing programs. Even as some schools shut down, and other programs shifted to entirely online courses, both nurse-educators and working RNs …
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Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN Odds are, when you decided to become a nurse, you picked a nearby nursing school and got your degree. Then you got your license in the same state you were already living in and …
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Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN American healthcare is facing a number of crises on multiple fronts, but none of them affect nurses quite as much as the current and growing shortage of qualified caregivers. The numbers are stark and …
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Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN The fact that NPs and other APRNs are in short supply these days has made the profession a lot more attractive and a lot more lucrative. The demand has been spurred by a national …
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Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN The almost constant demand for nursing talent around the country – and around the world, for that matter – means that any RN can take advantage of opportunities to pick up and relocate for …
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Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN You’re already well aware of the fact that the medical industry is facing a dire shortage of providers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects we’ll see a shortage of somewhere around a million nurses …
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Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN If you’ve been working in medicine for very long, you already know that the field has been a little slow on the uptake when it comes to adopting new technologies. And by slow, we …
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Reviewed by Abbie Jacobs, RN, BSN The fight to allow advanced practice registered nurses to practice to the full extent of their training, education and certification saw a major victory late last year when the Veteran’s Administration announced amendments to …
