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BSN Clinical Rotation Guide: What to Expect in Each Specialty

Registered Nursing

Clinical rotations form the backbone of your BSN education, transforming theoretical knowledge into practical nursing skills. As a nursing student, these immersive experiences across various healthcare specialties provide essential hands-on training while helping you identify potential career paths.

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Embracing the Future: AI’s Promise for Nurses and Healthcare

Empowered Nurses

Another example: Qventus’s system is calling hundreds of surgical patients to collect pre-op information—saving nurses hours and improving prep efficiency apnews.com. One nurse warned: “Turning over our thought processes to these devices is reckless.” · Lack of empathy: AI lacks the emotional nuance behind a patient’s sigh or tear.

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Unexpected Career Paths in Forensic Nursing

Registered Nursing

Related Nursing Careers to Consider: Missionary Nurse Travel Nurse 3. Medicolegal Death Investigator Forensic nurses can also work as medicolegal death investigators (MDIs), helping medical examiners determine cause of death in suspicious cases. Can forensic nurses really work for the FBI?

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Nursing Clinicals: What to Expect as a Nursing Student

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Augustine for Health Sciences’ (USAHS) School of Nursing , nursing clinicals are referred to as practicums because they provide students with a learning environment in which to practice their nursing skills on real patients, offering a bridge between the classroom and practice.

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Hawaiʻi’s First Nurse Midwife: The Groundbreaking Legacy of Alice Ting Hong Young

Minority Nurse

Young Becomes Hawaii’s First Nurse Midwife In 1935, the U.S. Congress passed the Social Security Act, which provided funds to enhance maternal-child health services by expanding public health nursesskills and education. It paid for her to go to the mainland for advanced education.

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What’s the future of AI-assisted nursing?

American Nurse

Documentation: The role of the medical scribe is already becoming outdated, replaced by the AI-powered medical scribe software in use today. The clinician simply approves the text and presses Enter to document the patient encounter. With all of the benefits of AI, I don’t worry that it will replace nurses.

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Why You Should Work as a CNA While in Nursing School

Diversity Nursing

However, Nursing students who have worked as CNAs have first-hand experience interacting with patients and do not have to spend their time in the clinical setting adapting to patient interactions. They can instead spend their time in the clinical setting developing other Nursing skills.