Nursing Specialties

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The LPN work and salary review

LPN’s traditionally practice in the long-term care setting, but career options for LPNs are expanding. Take a look at the salary and career opportunities available for licensed practical nurses.

International Day of the Midwife

Around the globe, millions of women and babies die in childbirth each year. Enter the midwives!

Want to know other nurses’ salaries?

Want to know other nurses’ salaries?

Here are the survey results for California and Nevada nurses. See how salaries have changed in the past 12 months and how these nurses’ pay stacks up to yours.

Mentoring new nurse faculty

Mentoring new nurse faculty

Whatever you thought of your nursing instructors, they played an important role in getting you where you are today. See how one nursing society is nurturing the next generation of nurse educators.

States seek to expand NP role

States seek to expand NP role

Should NPs be allowed to practice without physician oversight? Should they be allowed to prescribe narcotics?

Equal pay for equal work?

Equal pay for equal work?

If a doctor and nurse perform the same service, who do you think gets paid more?

Finding where you belong

Finding where you belong

We’re all looking to find out where we “fit” in the nursing world, but what happens when we find out where we don’t belong?

Demand for nursing doctoral programs grows

Can you be a nurse AND a doctor? You bet!

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Some nurses earn more than doctors

Getting sick of your family telling you that you should have been a doctor? Show them this study!

A new specialty: Marching Band Nurse?

A new specialty: Marching Band Nurse?

We asked our Facebook Fans to share their stories on how they became nurses. This one killed us…the idea of teens keeling over left and right from heatstroke was so sadly comical that we had to feature it here on Scrubs Magazine.

How to help Haiti

Want to help Haiti?

Where Do I Go?

Do nurses always know what type of nursing they want to do? Is there a proper place to start? I often wonder what doors will open when I graduate from nursing school.

Future of nursing: NPs

Future of nursing: NPs

Today, more than 141,000 NPs are licensed to provide primary and specialty healthcare as well as prescribe medications and therapies, and are reimbursed by all types of insurance plans.

Choosing a nursing specialty

Choosing a nursing specialty

So now that you’ve graduated, hopefully passed your state boards, and now hold the title. What now? The irony is you already know where you want to work. You already know what ‘fits’. You already know what doesn’t ‘fit’.

To be? Or not to be?

To be? Or not to be?

Some students seem to have a divine revelation of what their RN destiny would and should be. Me on the other hand? I couldn’t figure it out…Med-Surg? OR? Peds? Psych? ICU? ER?