Category: Nursing

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing has tapped its chief operating officer, Philip Dickison, PhD, RN, to become its next CEO. 

Nurses face new challenges every day. The question is, how do they manage them? Are they obstacles or opportunities?

Here are the fastest growing jobs within nursing between 2021 and 2031, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Ohio Nurses Association is sounding the alarm on understaffing in hospitals through a new “Code Red” advocacy campaign.

Western Governors University, an accredited, online, non-profit school based out of Millcreek, Utah, said in a May 22 press release that it will open an 18,000-square-foot nursing prelicensure simulation lab in Kansas City, Mo., in late 2023. 

Eight students from a now-shuttered nursing program at Stone Academy in West Haven, Conn., filed a class action lawsuit May 3 against the institution claiming it violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act by misrepresenting the institutions’ s…

Hospitals across the country are responding to the recent surge in violence against healthcare workers by launching violence prevention campaigns to spread the message to all who enter: acts of aggression will not be tolerated here. 

Nurses with decades of experience have been there, done that, seen and heard it all. They are more than willing to share advice about what they wish new nurses could already know and feel today that would help strengthen their practice.

The late Andy Rooney once said, “Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others.” That said, in the nursing profession, there’s something new to be learned every day. 

National Nurses Week or Month has to be more than a luncheon, a poster contest or even distributing hospital swag. Celebrating the nursing profession means examining how nurses are “uniquely prepared” to be leaders when it comes to improving quality ca…