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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...
Nurse Bling: Male Nurse Edition
Male nurses—your numbers are on the rise, and it occurred to us that you could use your own nurse “bling.” So we took to Etsy...
How the Chaos Theory is Combating On-The-Job Stress
The transition from the classroom to the workplace can be tough. Sure, the first round of learning pains is behind you, but so are the benefits of a...
Did you read it? — “Just credit where credit is due”
It was only recently that the phrase “just a nurse” was really taken to ask—and on a national level. But as author, nurse and...
How Do I Deal With Nurse Bullies?
Any nurse who has been rejected by a nurse clique or has been the victim of another nurse’s malicious gossip wonders, “Weren’t we all...
Bitten by a Turkey? There’s an ICD-10 code for that!
It's bigger, it's badder, it's more billable medical codes than you could ever imagine. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the newest iteration of the “International Classification of Diseases”!
The...
Top 10 Ways Nurses Boost Their Moods on the Job
More code browns than you can count? Patients driving you up the wall? Tired of being, well, tired? We feel ya! Nursing’s a tough...