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Maximize Your Income as a Travel Nurse: Useful Tips
My first experience looking for a job as a nurse and attempting to understand compensation variability within the profession was both intimidating and stressful. After graduating from one of the best undergraduate nursing programs in the country, gaining clinical...
5 Characteristics A Nurse Entrepreneur Should Have
Have you noticed that nurse practitioners are becoming more common in this country? We are providing patients with essential medical services. We, as nurse practitioners, are able to offer diagnostic and treatment services for a wide range of illnesses. While many...
Nursing Side Gigs: Boxing Coach
This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a boxing coach. By day, Cindy Bohmont, RN, SEN, Med, CCRN, CSD, works as a staff nurse in the Cardiovascular Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Mercy...
Climate Change: “Nurses are On the Move”
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments at Washington DC climate rally Just before a series of major climate change rallies were held in cities across the US, the journal Creative Nursing published a special issue on climate change. We spoke with special issue...
What’s the Difference Between Employer Provided Malpractice Insurance and Individual Professional Liability Insurance?
While working on the job, have you ever been concerned that a mistake or an accident could cause you to be sued? Even if that happened, you would be covered by your employer’s malpractice insurance, right? Well, maybe and maybe not. We interviewed David Griffiths,...
Addressing Language Barriers with Patients
A fundamental tenet of culturally competent care for patients is providing clinically and personally pertinent information to patients in a language that they understand. As the diversity of non-English language speakers increases in the United...
Working as a Nurse Psychotherapist
Pursuing jobs in the field of psychotherapy isn’t just for doctors; nurses can do it too. Benjamin Evans, DD, DNP, RN, APN, past president of the New Jersey State Nurses Association, has his own practice as a nurse psychotherapist in addition to consulting. He made...
Nurses are Taking the Temperature of the Gig Economy
The nursing Gig Economy is no longer about agencies. Now, you can gain a more flexible work-life balance by booking your nursing services a la Uber or Lyft! To learn more about the ways nurses can enter the gig economy, DailyNurse interviewed IntelyCare’s co-founder,...
7 Ways to be an Amazing Preceptor to a New Grad Nurse
The key to being an amazing preceptor to a new graduate nurse is to always remember what it’s like to be a brand new nurse. The idea that “nurses eat their young,” if true, is neither helpful to the new nurse nor to the patients that they care...
Penn State Donors Establish $10 Million Nursing Scholarship
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An anonymous Penn State donor couple has made a gift of $5 million to endow a scholarship for students with financial need in the College of Nursing. This is the largest single gift the college has received in its six-year history. In addition,...
The DNP Project: What Is It Exactly and Why Is It Necessary?
Anyone who is in a DNP program already knows about the final DNP project. But if you’re thinking about pursuing a DNP, you need to know more about it. Stephen Ferrara, DNP, FNP, FAANP, FNAP, Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs & Associate Professor, Columbia...
Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, and the Bedside Nurse
Nurses have always played a critical role at the bedside while bearing witness to numerous changes in technology. In the past 50 years alone, the advancements seem unfathomable to nurses of the not-so-distant past such as “test-tube” babies, medical lasers, the...
Will “Produce Prescriptions” Show Healthy Returns?
Federal, private funders bet food-as-pharmacy programs will deliver healthcare cost savings When low-income patients with high blood pressure fill their "produce prescriptions" at certain New York City pharmacies, they walk away with $30 in vouchers to spend on fresh...
Answering the Call: The Role of Nurses in Addressing Suicide Prevention and Mental Health
The importance of mental health in achieving overall wellness cannot be overstated. Mental health is defined as a state of physical, emotional, social, and psychological well-being in which the individual is productive, able to adapt to changes or adversity, able to...
When it Comes to Population Health, the Answer is Motivation
It was no great leap for Austin Regional Clinic to embrace the concept of population health, an approach that aims to improve the health of groups of people, particularly those with more medically complex conditions. Our medical group was founded on those principles...
Ovarian Cancer and PCOS Awareness Month: Your Role as a Nurse
As with any disease process, the role of nurses is to be ever vigilant about staying current on the latest advances with regards to ovarian cancer and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). As September is the awareness month for both of these...
Nursing Side Gigs: Healthcare 911
This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight the host of Healthcare 911. For the last four decades, Gail Trauco, RN, BSN-OCN, a grief mediator as well as the CEO of The PharmaKon LLC and Front...
Suicide Awareness and Prevention Among Nurses: A Q&A with Risk Specialist Georgia Reiner
In recognition of Suicide Awareness Month, Georgia Reiner, a risk specialist for Nurses Service Organization (NSO), shares her expertise on the subject of nurses and suicide prevention with DailyNurse. Q: What do you consider the most striking statistics on suicide in...
Here’s How One VA Facility Reduced its Nursing Turnover Rate
The Department of Veterans Affairs runs the nation’s largest health care system, but that doesn’t make it immune to the severe nursing shortage the U.S. is facing today. Not only are there not enough nurses, but medical facilities across the nation are seeing a higher...
Creating Your Own Business With Your Nursing Degree
You started out on your journey through nursing school starry eyed, young, and idealist; ready to save the world and make it a healthier place. You put in hours upon hours of studying, memorizing, and working hard on your clinicals, and finally you stand at your...
