Medicine  /  Nursing

  • How We Can Help Nurses Cope With Ptsd

    Posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. It is a severe and ongoing emotional re [...]

  • Healthcare Fields with Great Nursing Career Options

    A vast range of careers in healthcare has sprung up in America. There a quite a few factors that have triggered this type of growth like retirement of baby boomers that are the largest segment of population in the countr [...]

  • An Introduction to Critical Care Nursing

    Critical care nursing (CCN) is a growing field. Unfortunately, the number of available nurses is not growing fast enough to meet the demand. The shortage of critical care nurses can be seen in the increased incentive pac [...]

  • How to Choose Best Travel Nurse Agencies

    Are you interested in travel nursing jobs around the United States? Well, travel nursing jobs can be really worthy if you want to make your career in medicine with opportunities to see new locations and feel the differen [...]

  • Who Makes a Good Travel Nurse

    On some levels working as a professional travel nurse looks like the ideal job. It provides nurses with an opportunity to live and work in different parts of the country. They can interact with new people. Travel nurses [...]

  • The Professional Nursing Career

    Nursing is a profession focused on assisting individuals, families and communities in attaining, re-attaining and maintaining optimal health and functioning. Modern definitions of nursing define it as a science and an ar [...]

  • Drugs that Prevent Nausea and Vomiting

    A single or a few doses of phenothiazines and other drugs can be used for symptomatic treatment of nausea and vomiting. Phenothiazines and Other Dopamine Agonists Prochlorperazine (Stemetil). Triflupromazine (Siquil), Pr [...]

  • Nursing Continuing Education For the 21st Century

    One need only scan a newspaper or read a weekly magazine to be astounded by the number of stories about new medical breakthroughs, disease processes, emerging threats of disease, or innovations in medical and health care [...]

  • To BSN or not to BSN - That is the Nurse

    The Goldmark Report in 1923 was the first to recommend that the entry level of education for professional practice as a registered nurse should be a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN), and heated debate has rage [...]

  • The Nurse

    According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing the number of disciplinary actions for practice related issues such as failure to assess or intervene, documentation errors and medication errors for RNs has r [...]