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 s [...]

Healthcare Fields with Great Nursing Career Option
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 segme [...]

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 [...]

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 l [...]

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 w [...]

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 de [...]

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) [...]

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 innovati [...]

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 (BS [...]

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 m [...]