Posts Tagged Nurse
How to Become a Neonatal Nurse
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on January 25, 2012
If you are a registered nurse with some experience, you may be wonderinghow to become a neonatal nurse. You mayeven be a relatively new nurse who simply already knows her area of focus willbe neonatal. Either way, you want to know the steps you need to take the pathyou need to follow in order to reach your goals.Neonatal Nursing Education RequirementsThe nurse who works in a neonatal unit is a master nurse. She car...
Training Required for Becoming a Registered Nurse
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on November 1, 2011
Becoming a Registered Nurse (RN) is an exciting health care career thatexposes you to a range of medical conditions, practices, and health caretechniques. Becoming an RN is both a challenging and rewarding endeavor, withmany opportunities for leadership positions and career development.There are several different educational paths to take in order to become anRN, all of which are offered at nursing institutions thr...
Vindication for Nurse Prescribers – Cut Alcoholism Treatment Time in Half
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on October 19, 2011
Nurse prescribers face several challenges related to their prescribingpowers, including general opposition and lack of progression. However, newvindication from a pilot study on alcohol addiction in the UK shows how nursingprescription practices have provided improvements in patient care.Alcoholism, a pandemic problem in the UK, is responsible for a range ofhealth problems, including increased risks for depression,...
Calling a nurse ‘doctor’- A problem for some
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on October 4, 2011
The latest outbreak of obsessive semantics in the health care sector isthe storm over calling nurses with doctorates “Doctor”. Apparently MDsdon’t like the usage, and the result, as The New York Times reports, is prettyturgid stuff:Nursing leaders say that their push to have more nurses earn doctorates hasnothing to do with their fight of several decades in state legislatures to givenurses more autonomy, mone...
New California Bill Aims To Reduce Nurse Injury Risk
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on August 23, 2011
The fine art of patient-lifting doesn’t usually get a lot of attention inthe media. Nor does the fact that this very delicate operation often results ininjuries to the people doing the lifting. A new bill in California aims toredress that situation. The current state of affairs is to put it mildlycreating difficulties for the health care sector:According to the LATimes:More than 9,700 nurses filed workers’ comp...
Nurse Practitioners Getting a Bigger Role in LA Primary Care
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on April 5, 2011
LA County has taken the apolitical, hard headed approach to the need formore primary care givers. Ignoring the futile turf war between doctors and NPs,which has led to court actions and endless rhetoric, LA County is to expand itsprimary care program to meet demand.According to The LA Times:Read the rest of this entry »...
Comparison in the Role of a Licensed Vocational Nurse (lvn) and Psychiatric Technician (pt)
Posted by admin in nursing jobs oklahoma on February 15, 2011
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Nurse Practitioner Debate: Bureaucracy vs. Necessity – Guess What’s Happening
Posted by admin in careers oklahoma on February 8, 2011
The “debate”, aka series of tantrums from vested interests, over the role ofnurse practitioners is producing some interesting ideas and facts – thoughnothing substantive in the sense of providing results for the health of humanbeings. As the health system remains stuck somewhere in the 1940s, collapsingunder its own weight and chronic maladministration of public health policiesfor decades, doing anything abou...
Nurse Salaries For Different Nursing Fields
Posted by admin in nursing jobs oklahoma on January 26, 2011
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L&D Nurse Jobs
Posted by admin in nursing jobs oklahoma on January 1, 2011
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