Nursing Specialties

Starting a nurse-owned business

Follow these tips for success. Takeaways  Nurses have unique skills—critical thinking, prioritizing, organization, and emergency management—appropriate for starting their own businesses.  Business success involves…

Becoming a nurse investigator

As a board of nursing investigator, you protect patients and the public. Takeaways:  Careers in nursing regulation are a meaningful way to contribute to…
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Test-taking tips

Use your critical thinking skills to ace your next exam. Takeaways: The key to successful test taking is accurately identifying what the question is…
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The wave of the future

Start exploring hot nursing careers. Opportunities abound for nurses Nursing is entering an exciting era, and nurses can expect to ride a wave of…
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Nurse-scientists and nurse-engineers

Nurse-driven device innovations and inventions can improve patient care. Takeaways: Several institutions already recognize the importance and power of a combining nursing with more…
Ready to change nurse specialties?

Ready to change specialties?

Make sure you know yourself and what you really want.   By Janet Boivin, BSN, RN Deciding to change your nursing specialty can require…

Coaching patients to better health

“How do I know when I’m supposed to get screening tests?” “What do these labs mean and why did my nurse practitioner change my…

Starting a nurse-owned business

Follow these tips for success. Takeaways  Nurses have unique skills—critical thinking, prioritizing, organization, and emergency management—appropriate for starting their own businesses.  Business…

Becoming a nurse investigator

As a board of nursing investigator, you protect patients and the public. Takeaways:  Careers in nursing regulation are a meaningful way to…
test taking tips ant

Test-taking tips

Use your critical thinking skills to ace your next exam. Takeaways: The key to successful test taking is accurately identifying what the…
wave future ant

The wave of the future

Start exploring hot nursing careers. Opportunities abound for nurses Nursing is entering an exciting era, and nurses can expect to ride a…
nurse scientist engineer ant

Nurse-scientists and nurse-engineers

Nurse-driven device innovations and inventions can improve patient care. Takeaways: Several institutions already recognize the importance and power of a combining nursing…
Ready to change nurse specialties?

Ready to change specialties?

Make sure you know yourself and what you really want.   By Janet Boivin, BSN, RN Deciding to change your nursing specialty…
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