Certified Nurses Day — March 19

Certified Nurses Day is a national day to honor and recognize the important achievement of nursing specialty and subspecialty certification. Certification is a milestone of personal excellence along the professional journey.

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The Best Healthcare Jobs In 2015

While many of the new jobs created since the recession are persistently low-paying retail and restaurant positions with no benefits and little chance of advancement, the growing health care sector offers career paths that lead to generous compensation and a secure future. In the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest ten-year projections for industry growth, dating from 2012 to 2022, it projected that the health care and social assistance industry will produce one in three of the new jobs in the U.S. over the next decade.

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8 Tips for Nurses to Protect Themselves from Flu

The winter months are typically thought of as the months for influenza outbreak. The viruses yield an increase in in-patient admissions and/or clinic assessments; and healthcare workers are in contact with patients, harboring these organisms on a regular basis. With that being dually noted, this article proposes strategies for healthcare workers to both protect themselves and to curtail the transmission of disease.

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5 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Nursing Resume

In a competitive job market, we have to do everything we can to make our resumes more attractive to hiring managers. This can be difficult for older workers, who fear that even if there’s no bias (subconscious or conscious) against job seekers on the mature side of 40, a resume may make them look “overqualified” for the positions they want.

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Legally speaking: Nursing leadership

One of the newest articles posted on nurse.com says, nursing leadership has no single definition. It has been characterized in relation to principles a nurse leader should strive for: commitment to excellence, focusing on employee satisfaction and building individual accountability. Other depictions target skills necessary to be an effective nurse leader — organizational management, communication, analysis/strategy and creation/vision.

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