What is it with nurses? Are there too few of them, with shortages looming? Or are there plenty to go around? Which is it? A decade ago, the specter of the baby boom generation approaching old age led to predictions of a looming nursing shortage. The AMA’s journal weighed in at the end of 2008 with a dire prediction from Dr. Peter Buerhaus, a...

Nursing is the largest healthcare occupation, adding more than a quarter million jobs last year alone, according to government figures. So why couldn’t Candice Dyer find a nursing job? Dyer, a June 2011 graduate of Chamberlain College of Nursing in Chicago, and several of her classmates spent upwards of five months searching for their first...

Job vacancy rates at some area hospitals are the lowest they’ve been in years, and nurse shortages — at least for now — have disappeared. In a sign of how much today’s employment landscape has changed, the area’s largest hospitals have less than 50 positions open for full- or part-time nurses, which is an average of less than 4 percent. The...

Hi all, Ive searched high and low in these forums, but really couldnt find any threads relevant to my situation. I am an RN (ADN) with a Bachelor of Science that I had prior to starting nursing school. I could not afford the accelerated BSN route 2nd degree option, so I had to do the ADN at the time. I am considering bridging straight to a...

Has anyone else gotten accepted to Graceland Univeristy's online RN-MSN FNP program. I got accepted to start April 30, 2012 just wanted to see if there were any others out there. So that we could keep in touch. More...

I don't have the greatest GPA and have been taking classes to raise it as well as looking into schools I can get into. I currently have my bachelors in Biology and so I am looking at accelerated programs. Marian University does not look like it is extremely difficult to get into, and they have been communicating with me extensively. Does anyone...

Quote: The idea is that people who use health care would each be assigned a universal patient identifier, or UPI. This unique number would link to a person’s health records. In principle it would facilitate transfer of a patient’s medical history between doctors, hospitals and, likely, insurance companies. PROS A UPI system, using...

I'm applying for online BSN to Pediatric NP/DNP for Fall admission. So far I have narrowed it down to University of Missouri and University of South Alabama. Any feedback on either school? Acceptance rates?? Any info would be much appreciated!!! More...

Hi there! I have a BS degree (not nursing) and an ADN in nursing. I am looking for an online program to complete my RN to MSN if possible. I could go the Rn to BSN to MSN route, but was concerned about some of the MSN programs not accepting the online BSN degree. I could use some help! I am lookng for the most affordable and quickest way to get to...

Hi nurses, I am a recent ADN grad in NY looking for an quick ,affordable but reputable online bridge program. I'm considering Utica College because they will take all my credits and is 100% online with no clincicals. They are $330 /credit. I am conderned about one or two posts that I saw online in the past that thought there was very little...

The feverish patient had spent hours in a crowded emergency room. When she opened her eyes in her Manhattan hospital room last winter, she recalled later, she wondered if she could be hallucinating: “This is like the Four Seasons — where am I?” The bed linens were by Frette, Italian purveyors of high-thread-count sheets to popes and princes....

Once again, we learn that the looming nursing shortage will all but guarantee jobs for all the nursing grads who want them. The article even offers advice on various ways you can become an RN. Note to potential nursing students: You may want to consult the All Nurses forum on this subject before acting on the information in this article. ...

Hello, I plan on attending TESC shortly wanted to start a new post because all others seemed dated. I'm throwing a lot of questions out there to hopefully help others as well as myself. Any advise on the program? What are some of the better instructors in each nursing subject? Anyone using the state tuition waiver if so how do you submit your...

From the Dallas Observer: Quote: The Dallas VA Medical Center nurse who told a lesbian Marine her depression was the result of "living in darkness" as a homosexual will no longer be working for the VA. We first wrote about former marine Esther Garatie back in November, after the Dallas Voice broke the story: Garatie went in for...