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6 Careers You Can Pursue With a BSN Beyond Bedside Nursing

Scrubs

What usually comes to mind when you hear the term nursing is bedside nursing, whereby a registered nurse working in medical fertility handles multiple patients. However, that is not the only career path for aspiring and current nurses. Here are the six careers you can pursue with a BSN beyond bedside nursing.

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Meet Kate Veenstra: From Bedside Nurse to Top Spot at UM Health-West

Daily Nurse

Kate Veenstra, DNP, MSN, RN, CNL, CMSRN, ACM, NEA-BC, was recently appointed as the new chief nursing officer at the University of Michigan Health-West. Veenstra started as a bedside nurse at the hospital in 2006 and has held many roles, from associate chief nursing officer to the most recent interim chief nursing officer.

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Beyond the Bedside: Nursing Career Specialties to Consider

NurseBuff

If you picture a person in scrubs, working in a hospital, like an episode of ER or Scrubs—you aren’t wrong, but nurses can do so much more. There are various types of nurses, each with their own distinct focus […] The post Beyond the Bedside: Nursing Career Specialties to Consider appeared first on NurseBuff.

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CHS adds 1K+ bedside nurses; contract labor down $260M

Becker's Hospital Review

based Community Health Systems added more than 1,000 bedside nurses as part of its centralized clinical recruitment strategy in 2023, executives said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Feb. Franklin, Tenn.-based

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From bedside nurse to top spot, UM Health-West names new chief nursing officer

Health Leaders | Nursing

University of Michigan Health-West has removed the interim tag from her title and made it official, announcing Kate Veenstra, DNP, MSN, RN, CNL, CMSRN, ACM, NEA-BC, as the new chief nursing officer.

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Improv to Improve the POW Camp?

Candy Campbell

Although I was retired from bedside nursing by the time COVID surfaced, like most nurses, I'd seen a lot of misery, pain, and death that I don't talk about.

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How virtual nursing is empowering care teams 

Becker's Hospital Review

As a bedside nurse turned nursing informaticist, I see firsthand the toll that demanding workloads, long shifts, and lack of leadership support take on our amazing nurses. It's about time.