Whether you are looking for a new field of work or just getting started, nothing is more satisfying or rewarding than working in the medical field. While you could spend years going to universities to receive your doctorate or nursing degree, these options cost significant amounts of money. If time and money are not on your side, then perhaps you want to look into becoming a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA). As a CNA, you are responsible for caring and providing great quality of life care for patients in nursing homes, adult daycare centers, hospitals, or home care. Best of all, there are multiple options on how to achieve your certification…
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Review: EasyNCLEX.com
Most nurses will tell you that once they passed the NCLEX they will do anything to NEVER have to take it again! Truth is, as long as they complete the required CEUs or inactivate their license until then, they won’t have to. If they let their license lapse, they will have to repeat the NCLEX. For student nurses, the NCLEX often represents unparalleled fear and anxiety. The NCLEX is a comprehensive exam to determine that a nurse has the skills and knowledge base to safely practice nursing. The questions are designed to test critical thinking skills, reading comprehension, basic decision-making, and clinical nursing knowledge and skills. Many nurse graduates have…
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Expanding the Role of RNs and Advanced Practice Nurses
By Vance Hobbes With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March 2012, some 30 million new patients have been able to access healthcare of which they were previously unable to. With health professionals already squeezed for time and unable to fit any more patients on their schedules, there must be some way of absorbing these additional patients into hospitals and clinics. How will this be possible then? An immediate solution to this problem is to open the opportunity for registered nurses and advanced practice nurses to take on some of the responsibilities previously exclusive to doctors. Now I am certainly not suggesting these nurses should take over…
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Wishing each of you and your families and friends the very best of safe and happy holidays. Enjoy!!! photo © Kathy Quan
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The Nurses Float in the Rose Parade
The Rose Parade from Pasadena, CA is a New Year’s Day tradition known throughout the world. On Jan. 1, 2013, Sally Bixby RN CNOR will become only the second woman in the history of the parade, and the first nurse to preside as President of the Tournament of Roses and Rose Bowl Game. In honor of this event and to honor the profession of nursing, the Nurses Float 2013 will be in the parade. The float is entitled, A Healing Place. A recent graduate from the Pasadena City College School of Nursing and a student at PCC will ride on the float along with other nurses from Southern California. Nurses…