To be a nurse, or not to be, --that is the question. Nursing it is a job, a career, a profession and a way of life. It is all of these and more. Like few other, the profession of nursing offers a wide variety of specialties. From pediatrics to geriatrics, nursing impact is felt across the lifespan. Some specialty areas include burn care, medical telemetry, operating room, endoscopy, research and renal dialysis ... examine the practices they are similar to what we today know as community health nursing. Nursing in ten or twenty years will most likely look nothing like the nursing of today. New...

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... maintain their practices in rural America. Where does the problem begin? For nurses, the problem can be traced back to the nursing education. A serious shortage of nursing faculty is a main concern in many southern states and the District of Columbia. The combination of faculty vacancies and newly budgeted ... of these campaigns, but the immediate effects are nominal or non existent. Scholarships for nursing applicants are great incentives; however, there must be an applicant pool for the scholarships. Nursing has not been a glamorized profession to young people in America. Many view it ...

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... the doctor's handmaid, but an important part of the medical team. Although nurses are crucial, there is an increasing shortage of nurses. The nursing shortage is causing many nursing schools to close and hospitals to not admit patients. The nursing shortage might be due to the nurses" low income, advances in technology, and continuously being sued by their patients. The increasing shortage of ... a nurse. Nurses have never been appropriately compensated for their hard work. Many nurses are leaving the nursing profession to go into professions that offer better wages with an equal worklo...

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