Resources & Guides for Nurses
Nursing is a complex but collaborative profession, and no one has to do it alone. Whether you’re looking for salary information, geographic data, or details on professional associations, consider us your reference guide. Below, we’ve collected the most helpful resources and guides for new, aspiring, and veteran nurses.
How NPs Help Children & Youth in Foster Care
Advocacy is woven deeply into the nurse practitioner role. It’s a part of the job that’s never finished. Advocacy can occur at a micro level, by advocating one-on-one for a particular patient, or at the macro level, by lobbying for policy changes; it’s often a mix of the two. For many NPs, advocacy is about an issue close to their heart, one connected to underserved patients who deserve additional support. For two NP experts, the issue is children and youth in foster care.
An NP’s Guide to Becoming a Travel Nurse
Travel nursing normally occurs in hospitals with critical nursing shortages and high-demand specialties. A travel nursing assignment allows nurses to build their skills and explore the country while increasing pay.
Ask an NP: What is the Nursing Process?
The nurse would start with an assessment, form a nursing diagnosis, and start their plan. Afterward, they would implement the planned nursing interventions and evaluate if they led to optimal patient outcomes.
Guide to NP-Led Research
The healthcare community is a partnership between scientific research and clinical practice. For most of modern history, both arenas have been dominated by physicians. But as the healthcare workforce has expanded and the interprofessional care team emerged, nurse practitioners (NPs) have proven to be vital in delivering healthcare services in America.
An NP’s Guide to Becoming a Home Health Nurse
Home healthcare plays a significant role in reducing hospital stays and costly readmissions. It is frequently used to help patients recover from surgery, injury, or acute illness. As a result, home health nurses play an important part in the patient care continuum and in compliance with treatment regimens that ensure better outcomes.
Beating Burnout as a Travel Nurse
Recent survey results show that a quarter to half of nurses feel emotionally drained, used up, fatigued, and burned out several times a week, or even every day (NCSBN 2023). Nearly a fifth of the current nursing workforce has stated their intent to leave the profession by 2027, with a significant portion of those statements coming from nurses under 40. With an aging population and an ongoing need for healthcare services, America can’t afford to lose this much of its vital nursing workforce.
Cultural and Linguistic Awareness for Nursing Professionals
Nurse practitioners and other nursing professionals operate in a diverse landscape of cultures and languages. Understanding a patient’s cultural background and language proficiency is essential to effective healthcare delivery. It fosters mutual respect and trust and enhances patient satisfaction and adherence to treatment plans. However, not all nurses are aware of the importance of cultural and linguistic awareness.
Nursing Continuing Professional Development & The NCPD Award
Each year, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) awards its Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) Premier Award™ to accredited organizations that demonstrate excellence in NCPD. Presented to one or more fully accredited programs each year, the award recognizes recipients for a two-year period.
The Nursing Code of Ethics
Nurses are expected to adhere to the morals of the profession and embrace them as a part of what it means to be a nurse. Having a code of ethics makes it clear what the profession’s primary goals, obligations, and values are.
Day in the Life of a Nursing Instructor
A nurse instructor requires experienced nurses to take their knowledge and skills in nursing and translate them into lessons that help student nurses. Their goal is to provide high-quality training for nurses that promotes safe and effective patient care.