by Tera Tuten on January 24, 2012
Each year, there are thousands of medical conferences and more than a thousand conferences specific or related to nursing of note in the U.S.
Whether you get to pick a few, have a limited number you can go to, or get asked to weigh-in on which ones you could get sent to, it’s always good to have some conference buzz and meeting intel well in advance.
So, for a month-by-month snapshot of the lay of the land in 2013, check out our look-ahead at 15 important nursing conferences you might want to consider: [continue reading…]
by Tera Tuten on March 2, 2011
There are more than a thousand nursing conferences in the U.S. (depending on what qualifies to you as a conference) in 2012.
And while you may get to pick one each year or be mandated to go to many, just choosing can be a nightmare.
In the interest of helping separate the wheat from the chaff, here are our picks – based on prominence, content, innovation, and timeliness – of the top 15 conferences for 2012:
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by Tera Tuten on September 15, 2010
Whether you’re a doctor looking to change specialties, a nurse looking to re-train, or a med-school student who just decided they want to open up a camping store rather than start practicing medicine (wait…that was actually an episode of The Cosby Show)…
…Seriously, let’s say you’re a med-school student and decide at the last minute that you want to do something other than what you were trained for, or want to add a new skill set to your tool belt for a backup career, a new CV feature, or just to expand your horizons…
Whether you’re looking for a full-time change-of-pace or a minor side project, here below are 11 medical certifications you may not have thought of:
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by Tera Tuten on August 30, 2010
Wondering which nursing schools are tops to apply to, work at, or just get an acceptance to?
More to the point, wondering which list of top nursing schools to trust?
Don’t fret: We’ve got you covered.
After analysing more than 30 such rankings, we averaged the lists together, applying editorial common sense and other subjective judgements where of use and benefit in painting a more comprehensive picture of the nursing programs that stand-out.
Who’s top of the top?
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by Ryan Winter on September 22, 2009
By 2020, the U.S. government predicts that it will be short between 800,000 and one million nurses. (Close to 117,000 short in California alone.)
Before that – 2015 – the U.S. Department of Health projects that 400,000 new nurses will be needed just to fill vacancies left by retirees.
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by Jennifer Bradford on June 8, 2009
Nurses all over the world work countless hours caring for the sick and wounded, and have done so for years. Though Monastic nuns and prostitutes had performed the duties we commonly associate with nursing since the Middle Ages, many people consider Florence Nightingale the founder of modern nursing. Her contributions to medicine and statistics tremendously changed the way the world looked at nursing, a career once thought to be a “man’s job.” [continue reading…]
Each year, there are thousands of medical conferences and more than a thousand conferences specific or related to nursing of note in the U.S.
