| Nursing Insights |
| Jan 21-27 Hottest Topics |
Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!
Facilities are firing seasoned, higher paid nurses and utilizing younger less experienced nurses. This cost-cutting measure is putting patients at risk, working nursing and support staff to the point of exhaustion, and causing staff to leave the profession. How can we get administrators to see that these measures are not effective and can cost lives?
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A degree that fits your schedule
The BSN is widely considered a standard requirement for RNs seeking broader professional responsibilities and career opportunities. But for many, it can be difficult to find the time to continue your education. Alvernia University Online can help. Our affordable and flexible RN to BSN Completion Program allows you to learn your way. The CCNE-accredited program features online courses that allow you to study when and where you want, while learning from professors with experience in the nursing field.
allnurses 2015 Nursing Salary Survey
Jobs in healthcare ranked in the top of U.S News recent report of 2015’s 100 best jobs. Nurse Practitioners lead the way of healthcare workers in the overall number 2 position, while Registered Nurses are close behind in the number 9 slot. As nurses, we know how valuable we are to the healthcare system as a whole. We also know that we are respected by the public. Nurses have consistently ranked in the top position of the Gallup poll with Americans rating nurses as having the highest honesty and ethical standards.
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ABC's of Pediatric Respiratory Assessment: The Basics
Respiratory issues represent a significant proportion of pediatric illness and hospitalizations. Viruses such as the common cold, croup, and RSV, while often benign, can wreak havoc when, for example, they occur in infants who have tiny airways or in children with pre-existing conditions such as asthma or allergies.
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Why I Love IV Nurses
I worked night shift on a telemetry floor. Of course, all of our patients had to have IV access. It was standard policy and made sense should we need access in an emergency. Although the IVs were checked for patency every eight hours and changed every three days, it never failed that the IV would blow on night shift.
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The Smell of Death: An Era Gone By
This is the third in the series “An Era Gone By” looking this time at how disease modes of transmission are the same as the 1900s, but treatment and prevention has changed. We focus on typhoid fever, looking at signs and symptoms and compare treatments from then to now.
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Blood, Guts & Bodily Fluids?
Do you have any issues with any of this when you first became a nurse and then eventually became desensitized? Most things do not bother me but there are a few things that do get to me such as REAL funky odors and vomit.
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[Toon] Nxxxo failure to communicate
Nurses, it has been said time and again, go above and beyond the call of duty every day. All Nurses deserve an award. But, when one of our loved ones, especially our own children, hold us in high esteem, well ... it means more than what mere words can convey. What has one of your loved ones said about you as a Nurse that left you speechless and a little teary-eyed?
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