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Levels of Nursing Explained

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Position Description: To become an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), you must be an RN ready to take on more of a leadership role in patient care. While RNs typically focus on implementing a plan of care, APRNs focus on directing a plan of care. APRN Median Annual Salary: $63.48/hour,

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Future-Proofing Healthcare

Penn Nursing

Menu Button Feature Future-Proofing Healthcare How Penn Nursing’s PhD program is the key to unlocking innovative and equity-focused care and policy. As an ER nurse, Jennifer Gil , MSN, RN saw the return of plenty of patients who had made little progress. She wondered, too, about the connection between crowded ERs and nursesburnout.

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Small Patients, Big Discoveries

Penn Nursing

“We’ve adjusted and structured the curriculum to focus on the lifespan of a patient’s health,” says assistant professor Amanda Bettencourt, PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, Gr’19. Nurses Help NursingBurnout” is an omnipresent word in nursing today.

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Nursing at the Speed of Trust

Minority Nurse

For others, it’s the goal of becoming a nurse practitioner or advanced practice registered nurse ( APRN ). And when you get right down to it, many nurses will tell you they like helping people, so why not join a highly respected profession renowned for doing just that?

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Nurses Take Top Spot for Honesty and Ethics in Gallup Poll

Nurse.com

Nurses continued to care for patients with COVID-19 and address the fears that come with the diagnosis. The pandemic also exacerbated the challenges nurses already faced before COVID-19 and created new ones. Understaffed and unsafe work environments make it impossible for nurses to do the work they signed up to do.

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Critical Care Association President Wants Nurses to be Heard

Nurse.com

A self-proclaimed millennial, Amanda Bettencourt , PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, is serving a one-year term as president of the world’s largest specialty nursing organization, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). Amanda Bettencourt, APRN.

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Reducing Assessment Frequency: And Other Recommended Reading from AJN’s August Issue

Amercan Journal of Nursing

.” Their study explores associations between workers’ attitudes toward trauma-informed care, worries about workplace violence, and burnout through a survey administered as part of a public health initiative.