Career
DNP vs. NP- What’s the Difference?
If you could further your nursing education at the highest level to advance your career, what path would you take? Some may consider becoming a nurse practitioner (NP), while...
Best Practices
Nurse Scheduling Nightmares
How two clever nurse managers found low cost options to streamline scheduling.
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Career
Advice To Management On The Occasion Of Nurses Week
Happy National Nurses Week, ModernNurse readers!
We know your jobs are hard ones. You get all of the kicks and...
Insights
No ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ for Boosting Patient Satisfaction
The factors that determine the level of patient satisfaction with pediatric care vary significantly depending on which departmental...
Career
More than 234,000 licensed nurse practitioners in the US
More than 234,000 nurse practitioners (NPs) are licensed in the United States, according to the American Association of Nurse...
Nurses Have Some Crazy Holiday Stories
Every nurse knows that holidays are far from sacrosanct when you work in healthcare. Patients in ICU can’t be left to fend for themselves....
Did you read it? — “Dear NICU nurse…”
It’s not uncommon for a nurse to witness patients at their very worst. Frightened, emotional and often in immense pain, patients (and their loved ones) come...
What Secrets Are Nurses Keeping From the Rest of the World?
Here’s a fun fact that most people don’t know about healthcare: Nurses see all, hear all and know all. We asked the nurses who follow our...
The Top 25 Inspirational Things About Nursing
For a nurse, inspiration is as important as breathing—we need oxygen for our souls. Just as we check to see if our patients are...
Be Inspired By “The Call of Nursing: Stories From The Front Lines of Health Care”
Every so often, we stumble across a book on nursing that we can’t wait to share with our readers. Our newest pick?
William B. Patrick’s
The...
Too Much Foot Traffic In and Out of Operating Rooms?
A "secret shopper" style study by researchers at Johns Hopkins analyzing foot traffic in and out of operating rooms suggests that for the sake...