Did you know that there are a total of 4,000,000 nurses in the United States only (approximately)? That adds up to 10 nurses per 1000 people, and if you ask me that is not a sufficient number! Statistics actually agree, and if you didn’t know by now, now you know - we are facing a serious shortage of nurses
HCPLAN: APM Measurement Effort - Commercial health plans, Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), state Medicaid agencies, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, and Medicare voluntarily participated in a national effort to measure the use of Alternative Payment Models (APMs) as well as progress towards the LAN’s goal of tying 30% of U.S. health care payments to APMs by 2016 and 50% by 2018.
Highlights key people, events and dates import to the progression of the Nursing field.
ATI testing - Encourage students to consider public health in your Week 4 celebration of Nurses Month. One of the best aspects of being a nurse is caring — not just providing care. Nurses emotionally care! They care about clients, about families, about communities, and about populations. Public and community health nurses must be able to: Build trusting, long-term relationships Problem-solve independently Analyze broad data to target local needs Communicate effectively with community members, interprofessional team members, government agencies and officials, and stakeholders.
Produced by Colorado Technical University - Highlights significant specialties of the Nursing field providing a graphic, definition, example medical certifications, and sources for further information.
50,000 healthcare informatics professionals will be needed in the next 7 years. That’s according to the University of Illinois at Chicago's Online Health Informatics Program, which published an infographic asserting that the industry needs new ways to provide improved care, sans errors.
A nursing care plan is an integral part of a nurse’s practice as it provides documentation of the patients current condition and treatment goals. Nursing students can utilize a nursing care plan template as an example to follow when creating their own plans.
Nursing informatics is a career field that finds solutions to improve information communications and management in nursing.
This infographic is especially helpful for those looking for ways to explain to non-nurses just how they got to where they are, or for those looking to enter the nursing field.
