Nursing Shortage – How Do We Improve Recruitment and Retention

Vital Insight Alert! The landscape of nursing is rapidly evolving, and recent statistics shed light on significant trends negatively impacting the workforce. According to the data from NCSBN (National Council of State Boards of Nursing), there’s a critical shift happening… Alarmingly, 41% of the RN total is comprised of nurses with a mean age of […]

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The 10 Highest-Paying Health Care Jobs

According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook report tabled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statics. There are about 2.3 million jobs that will be created in the U.S. economy from the health care sector alone. That is an expected 18% job growth within this sector. It is interesting to note that within that projected period. […]

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How Long Does It Take to Become a Registered Nurse?

Hey, do you know that baby boomers are fast exiting the workforce as a good number of them are approaching retirement? Yes, they are and one job sector where their exit will be most felt is in the health workers sector. Statistics show that by the year 2030, about a million qualified registered nurses will […]

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What Makes a Great Nurse Preceptor?

It is never a secret that new nurses are anxious whenever they enter the health care workplace to which they were assigned, for the first time.  All their years of studying in classrooms and spending hours as interns just fly out the window at that moment. Most of the time, they end up with their […]

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What Employers Think About Your Online Nursing Degree

  The stigma towards online degrees has improved in recent years. There was a time when people would look down on these degrees as being worth as much as the paper they were printed on. The problem is that originally, most online schools would give you the degree essentially for clicking a few buttons each […]

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For-Profit Nursing Programs – Are They Producing Great Nurses?

YES – Many for profit nursing schools produce fantastic nurses!!! For-Profit Nursing Programs are another option for students who are not keen on going through the tedious process of admission into their state universities and local community colleges. Students who want to be educated in these public institutions must go through hard entrance exams, lottery-style […]

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