By Deborah Martin, DNP, MBA, RN, NE-BC, FACHE Organizing your nursing credentials Nurses often joke about the alphabet soup of nursing credentials that can follow a nurse or advance practice nurse’s name. With all the different nursing and advanced nursing licenses, degrees, and certifications…
The Biggest Challenges New Nurses Are Facing Today In The Healthcare Galaxy “How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” -Florence Nightingale Being a “newbie” nurse during a pandemic has to be a surreal experience. COVID-19 has revealed much dysfunction in…
The 2020 Nursing Salary Survey gives a closer look at the career-altering pandemic and what it means for the profession When Elite originally released our 2020 Nursing Salary Survey, we anticipated another year of comparing salaries of LPNs, RNs, NPs, etc. and looking for…
Let me congratulate you on your accomplishments. As a nurse, I truly understand the sacrifices you and your families have made so that you can become a nurse. Nursing is a calling. You have been called upon to use your talents to make a…
Strategies to move past that inevitable first error New registered nurses confront a constantly changing and often chaotic practice environment. It may take several years for a new nurse to fully acclimate to the professional role. During that time, new nurses are more apt…
Nurses rely on core values to ensure quality care is provided to patients. As nurses, we are taught in school and in the workplace the ideal of “beneficence,” which is, doing no harm to our patient and being kind, honest and ethical. These become core…
Each quarter ADVANCE asks nurse recruiters, educators, career coaches and other experts to give advice on how to be noticed in a highly competitive job market. This time around we asked two experts about cover letters. A decade ago savvy applicants would always craft an introductory…