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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...
Top 10 Nursing Lessons From Your Mentors
Every single nurse experiences a learning curve, and that transition from nursing student to practicing nurse can be a doozy! That’s why you need someone...
A New Way to Monitor Vital Signs?
We may one day be able to monitor patients' vital signs by having them swallow an ingestible electronic device that measures heart rate and breathing...
TED Talks: The Future of Medicine
Take this tour of medicine's future with some of the trailblazers charting its course. Once you've seen a transplantable human kidney created from a...
Did you read it? — “Why is the U.S. perpetually short of nurses?”
If you’re growing weary of all the chatter about the current and future nurse shortage, especially when so little is being done to trigger...
8 Benefits of Becoming a Nurse Educator
If you’ve always been fascinated by the idea of becoming a nurse educator, there’s a good reason. Whether you realize it or not, there...
What’s Your Hospital Holiday Tradition?
All Shift Nurses Have Been There
Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s rolls around and…guess who’s scheduled to work? While spending the holidays away from your...