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BSN Clinical Rotation Guide: What to Expect in Each Specialty

Registered Nursing

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Rotation This unique rotation focuses on therapeutic communication and mental health interventions. Community/Public Health Nursing Rotation This rotation introduces population-based healthcare in non-hospital settings.

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Best Direct-Entry Nurse Practitioner Programs of 2025

Registered Nursing

Core graduate nursing coursework: After obtaining RN licensure, students progress into mastersor doctoral-level courses covering evidence-based practice, healthcare policy, leadership, and advanced pathophysiology.

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Best Online Faith-Based Online Nurse Practitioner Schools in 2025

Registered Nursing

Graduates are prepared for diverse mental health settings, with strong job prospects and high earning potential. #1 Students complete over 700 clinical hours with expert preceptors, focusing on critical care, trauma, and hospital medicine. Psychiatric-Mental Health concentration. Online MSN program.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. She’ll graduate with her doctorate in nursing practice as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in December 2023.

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The Case for Soft Skills in Nursing Education

American Nurse

Soft skills encompass a wide range of qualities such as communication, empathy, teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, and cultural humility. Not only does this leave new nurses unprepared for the complexity of the healthcare field, but it also negatively impacts our profession as a whole.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. Leadership should remain visible and accessible to both shifts. It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level.

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Nurses With DNP Degree Are Sorely Needed in Health Care and Education

Nurse.com

While the profession is not quite there yet, the DNP is a terminal degree that prepares the nurses for leadership, given the constantly changing demands of a complex U.S. They have a population health perspective, which allows them to collect, analyze, and report on epidemiological data. healthcare system. How to Become a DNP Nurse.