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The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses - Carolyn Jarvis
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Job-Seeking Nurses Face Higher Hurdle as Hospitals Require More-Advanced Degrees
Megan Goodman was a dean’s list student at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences who served on two student nursing boards before she earned her associate degree in nursing in May.
Since then, the 30-year-old Downingtown, Pa., resident still is seeking work after applying for more than three dozen hospital jobs. “Truthfully, an associate’s program is not really going to get you anywhere anymore,” she said.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans flocked to nursing schools over the past decade, drawn by the prospect of a well-paying job with a degree that takes as little as two years. But many have graduated only to find the goal posts have shifted, as hospitals seek nurses…
Resources
Is Nursing A STEM Field? Even Experts Disagree
While pulling together the America's Best Value Colleges list, we hit upon a surprisingly contentious question: Would a nursing program fall under the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) umbrella? Or are nursing and similar fields kind of their own thing?
Better-Educated Nurses Tend to Give Better Results
Hospitals with a higher proportion of baccalaureate- and masters-prepared nurses have reduced rates of death and complications.
Nurse Education Level Affects Death Rates, Study Says
Results of the Europe-wide study of hospitals and nurses, published in the Lancet medical journal, highlighted two factors that correlated with variations in patient mortality in surgical wards. One was the number of patients per nurse. The other was the percentage of the nursing staff educated at a university to bachelor’s degree level.
The Evolution of the Trained Nurse
“Perhaps it is most essential of all, apart from mastering the handicraft of her profession and having an intelligent understanding of symptoms, that a nurse should know how to behave.”
Job-Seeking Nurses Face Higher Hurdle as Hospitals Require More-Advanced Degrees
Growing demand for bachelor’s degrees comes partly in response to increasingly complex health-care system.
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