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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Nurse Educators: Shaping the Future of Nursing, Nursing Articles: Free Nursing News, Nurseconnect.com

By Megan M. Krischke, contributor

June 6, 2011 - If you loved your time in nursing school, you enjoy sharing your knowledge with others, you thrive in a constantly changing environment, and you want to impact the future of nursing and increase exponentially the number of lives you are able to save, a career in nursing education may be calling your name.

“We are in the business of educating the next generation of nurses,” stated Judith F. Karshmer, Ph.D., APRN, BC, professor and dean of the University of San Francisco School of Nursing. “As a school of nursing faculty, our job encompasses attracting qualified candidates, working with our partners in practice to know what is the role and domain of nurse practice for both today and tomorrow. We partner with other nursing faculty and our colleagues across the campus to develop curricula that link undergraduate liberal arts and sciences to the art and science of nursing, and design curricula that are current and that reflect dynamic changes in the profession.”

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Tips for Your First Year as a Nurse - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

When I first got out of nursing school and was hired as a Medical-Surgical RN in a local hospital I began searching to find tips that might help me make the transition from student nurse to RN. I wanted a list of specific things I could do to help me learn to care for a greater patient load without an instructor there to back me up. I was disappointed that I could not find a lot of information regarding this crucial transition. I later composed the following list of tips and tidbits. I sincerely hope these prove to be useful to someone else who is in the same shoes I once wore.
1. Be early for work. If you receive report at 7:00 am be there at 6:30am. Most nurses appreciate you relieving them early and are more than happy to give you report. In the two years I worked as a Med-Surg nurse I worked over only twice and that was for a maximum of fifteen minutes only. I found that getting a jump on my day enabled me to start out ahead.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Make Way for the Millenials on ADVANCE for Nurses

Millions are already in the classroom and workforce, and their reinforcements are marching through the doors in vast numbers. They are the millennials, the latest generation to give the country a facelift as they try to blend in with the traditionalists, baby boomers and Generation Xers to do their part in moving society forward.

The millennials were born between 1982 and 2001.^{1, 2}The children of baby boomers, their generation was named for coming of age at the turn of the millennium.

Millennials are a symptom of drastic change, according to Paige Shaughnessy, PhD, CCC-SLP, graduate program director in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Allied Health Professions, at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, CA. "The changes in America socially, economically and politically were so drastic around 2000 and 2001 that in many ways it shaped a generation that is very different from the rest of us. We truly have to struggle to understand them."

The older generations can learn to work with the incoming workforce of millennials by making every attempt to understand their characteristics, values and expectations without sacrificing their own integrity.

Millennials have a wealth of defining traits. Thanks to their total immersion in technology from the time they were born, their cognitive characteristics and learning styles are unlike any seen before. They really are wired differently because they grew up using different parts of their brains, Shaughnessy told ADVANCE.

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Many local nursing grads find local jobs, Utah

A couple of years ago, finding a job as a nurse was a snap.

It's a bit harder now, but thanks to a healthy relationship between the hospitals in Utah County and the local nursing schools, local grads are still doing OK.

Utah had the lowest registered nurse vacancy rate in the country as of May, said David Clark, Intermountain's CEO for the urban south region. Much of that he attributed to the natural feeding system set up because of BYU, UVU, Provo College, Eagle Gate College, Ameritech and other programs that train qualified nurses.

Intermountain Healthcare is the largest health care provider in the state and thus the largest employer of nurses as well.

And he has no problem admitting that Intermountain is a little partial to the nurses who trained "right there in our backyard."

It's not that the process becomes easy, he said.

"They have to earn it based on their own merits," Clark said.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Integrating New Nursing Grads, Nursetogether.com

Do you remember what it was like to be a new nursing graduate? One day you were a student, and ‘poof,’ one day you were a nurse. Expectations ran high and responsibilities ran even higher. The cushion of ‘just being a student’ and having your instructor ultimately be responsible is gone in an instant. Do you remember the anxiety, fear and unsure feelings of those first few months?

When you are well into your own career and overloaded with your own patients, it is easy to forget what it was like in the beginning. But wait, we need your active participation to help us integrate our new staff, now more than ever! In a profession that is one of the most trusted and respected in the world, it is embarrassing that we have a phenomenon known as ‘nurses eating their young’ - the well known, but little talked about, epidemic of senior nurses making work life even more challenging for their young counterparts. I am hopeful that the general public is unaware of this, as it would be rather embarrassing for us!

Why do you think this exists? Do we feel that new grads must ‘pay their dues,' that because no one supported us, we don’t need to support them? Is it our own insecurities? Are we worried they have newer, fresher knowledge, and that they will want our jobs?

Whatever our reasons, whether conscious or not, many of us are hurting, rather than helping, our new nurses integrate into our institutions. With the shortage of nurses so prevalent, wouldn’t it be in OUR best interest to help these ladies and gentlemen through their first, and possibly most challenging, year in the profession?

Dr. Judy Boychuk Duchscher, RN, PhD, has made her life’s work helping new nurses transition into the workplace. Beyond this article, her compelling research and tools for integration can be found on www.nursingthefuture.ca.

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Nurse Recruitment and Retention: Can New Nursing Grads Find Work?

When I was speaking at a hospital, talking to recently recruited nurses, I heard their frustrations in not being able to work in the area of their choice.

Indeed, where once nursing grads could essentially get their first choices and select from several attractive job opportunities, some looking to enter our profession have had to settle for a position different from their goals.

Wise new grads will take this job, giving the best care possible as team player. When the recession ends and cut backs are eased, they can transfer into their position of choice.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Why Do 18% of New Nurses Quit Their First Jobs? Nurse Recruitment and Retention:

I just learned about the RN Work Project (www.RNWorkProject.org) that will track careers among newly licensed registered nurses.

With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation until 2016, they’ll study RN work careers for 10 years.

To understand the supply of and demand for nurses, it is critical that we understand the needs and challenges of new RNs. This study examines the first work settings of newly licensed registered nurses to learn what influences their first job choice and where they move afterward.

About 18% of newly licensed RNs leave their first nursing job within a year of starting, and 26% leave within 2 years. Of these, about 92% take another nursing job with a different employer.

This study is crucial for nurse recruitment and retention.

Please leave a comment below sharing your thoughts on what can be done to retain nurses.

(Tune in every Monday to LeAnn Thieman's Nurse Recruitment and Retention column the home page.)

About the Author: LeAnn Thieman, Nurse, Author and Speaker Hall of Fame is an expert in nurse recruitment and retention and author of Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul. To have her help hire and inspire your nurses, contact her at www.NurseRecruitmentandRetention.com

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Yes, nursing is getting better!

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Pssst! Have you heard the good news about nursing in the United States? There are many good aspects of our work that make us want to keep doing what we’re doing, but there is also evidence that the profession as a whole is “feeling pretty good” these days.

In September 2004, the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) published a study about the state of nursing in the U.S. and the nursing job market. This study was repeated in 2008, with results released in September 2010. Here are five important findings every nurse should know about.

1. More RNs are graduating and getting licensed.
Although there are some parts of the U.S. that have too many nurses, there are many other areas that have a shortage. The fear has been that as nurses get older and think about retiring or going to part-time work, this shortage will get worse. This fear has been intensified in the past few years by reports of a shortage of nursing instructors, the very people we need to educate the new nurses.

Well, there’s good news. According to the NSSRN study, there was an almost 8 percent growth in the number of licensed RNs in the U.S. between 2000 and 2004. This resulted in a new high of 2.9 million nurses. In 2008, the numbers were even better. The workforce grew another 5 percent, reaching another high of 3.1 million.

2. The median age of nurses is stabilizing.
Following the “new nurse” trend, the median age of working nurses isn’t rising as quickly as people feared. While there was a significant increase in median age between the first time this type of study was done in 1980 and in 2004, there was no change between 2004 and 2008.

In 1980, 52.9 percent of nurses were younger than 40. This number dropped to only 26.3 percent in 2004. The median age was 46—the same number found in the 2008 study.

3. More nurses are finding employment.
Again, there are some parts of the U.S. where nurses are having a rough time finding work. This could be due to many reasons—state and industry finances, population of the location or an overall glut of nursing graduates. The overall picture of nursing employment, however, is still positive. The survey found that in 2004, the rate of employment among actively licensed nurses was the highest since 1980, at a rate of 83 percent employment. By 2008, this rate had risen to 85 percent.

4. More nurses are earning more money.
Salaries are also rising across the country. While there are definite differences in pay scales according to geographical region, the trend is upward in salary and benefits. In 2004, the average RN was earning $57,785 annually for full-time work. This represented a growth of almost 14 percent since 2000. This was the first increase of that size in more than 10 years.
In 2008, the average RN salary rose to $66,973, an increase of almost 16 percent since 2004.

5. RNs are advancing their education.
Going back to school and getting an advanced degree in nursing isn’t always about moving up the management chain. Getting a master’s degree in nursing (MSN) is the way to become a nurse practitioner, for example. And by 2015, if all things go as planned, new nurses who want to go on to be advanced practice nurses or nurse practitioners will be required to get a doctorate in nursing to be allowed to practice.

An increase in education is quite noticeable over the past few surveys. Between 2000 and 2004, there was a 37 percent increase in RNs who went on to complete an MSN or a PhD in nursing. These numbers increased again between 2004 and 2008 by almost 47 percent. We went from having 376,901 MSN or PhD educated nurses in 2004 to 404,163 in 2008. This is a big difference from the first study in 1980, where there were only 85,860 RNs with these advanced degrees.

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Nurse Educators: Shaping the Future of Nursing, Nursing Articles: Free Nursing News, Nurseconnect.com

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Tips for Your First Year as a Nurse - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Make Way for the Millenials on ADVANCE for Nurses

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Many local nursing grads find local jobs, Utah

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Integrating New Nursing Grads, Nursetogether.com

Nurse Recruitment and Retention: Can New Nursing Grads Find Work?

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Why Do 18% of New Nurses Quit Their First Jobs? Nurse Recruitment and Retention:

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Yes, nursing is getting better!

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