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(It seems just as important as finding a new job now is protecting the job once you get it.  Take a few moments to read this.)

The chief executives of trusts and private companies may consider “red lining” through many a group of nurses just to save costs. As the biggest workforce in the healthcare community, nursing salaries are undoubtedly flashing brightly on the budget sheets. But it is wrong to just slash and burn this cost, because it is nurses who have one of the…

(This was a very interesting article I found while looking for news updates for nurses, and I felt it would be a good read possibly worth discussing amongst our RN2RN members.  Please feel free to respond!)

Good Grief: Nurses Cope With Patient Deaths

Rowena Orosco, RN, BSN, had been working at Johns Hopkins Bayview Burn Center in Baltimore for three years when a family with seven children was brought to the hospital after a fire destroyed their…

To a patient, it may look like a nurse is touching a wrist, changing a bandage, reading a chart and asking random questions. What she’s also doing is thinking.

That nurse is assessing, listening, gathering information, prioritizing and planning the next action — all within minutes — often without being aware of all that she’s doing.

Critical thinking is at the heart of being a good nurse.

“You start with the guidelines and theory that you know, and you build…

Nurses can now become expert witnesses, a field previously dominated by physicians.

Any nurse, regardless of education or specialty, interested in expanding their career options to be nurse expert witnesses will learn skills for this new career at a two-day legal nurse certification course

in Memphis, Sept. 25-26, offered by Jurex Center For Legal Nurse

Consulting.

Clarksville native Elizabeth G. Rudolph, an attorney, nurse and legal nurse consultant, founded…