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Free Continuing Education in Nursing

Networking for Career Advancement
Objectives:
The goal of this program is to enhance nurses’ skills in networking to keep their professional careers fit. After you study the information presented here, you will be able to – Identify four potential resources to contact for networking.
Outline steps for face-to-face networking.
Describe three self-marketing sales props for use in effective networking.

This course will be updated or discontinued on or before 12/20/2012
This course has been made available for FREE through a promotional arrangement with Jacksonville University until June 8, 2011.

* While participation in this educational activity is free to you, participant lists shall be made available to the sponsor of this module. By proceeding, you are agreeing to allow this organization to receive your demographic or survey information. If you do not want your demographic or survey information to be released to the sponsoring organization, you can take this course for $ 10.00 by clicking here.

Nurses’ Role in the Future of Health Care

By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.
Published: November 18, 2010
At the start of my surgical training, I helped to care for a middle-aged patient who was struggling to recuperate from a major operation on his aorta, the body’s central artery, and the blood vessels to his legs. As the days wore on, the surgeon in charge began consulting various experts until the once spare patient file became weighted down with the notes and suggestions of a whole roster of specialists.
The patient eventually recovered, thanks to the efforts of many. Nonetheless, one afternoon while walking around the wards with the senior surgeon, I couldn’t help but make a crack about the sheer heft of the patient’s chart; it was, after all, my job to carry it around while she visited with patients.
“Remember this for when you get out into the real world,” she said, taking the chart from me and letting it dip in a way that exaggerated its bulk. “When the ship seems to be going down, you’ve got to get all hands on deck.”
We might do well to remember that surgeon’s advice right now.
As we inch toward 2014, the year that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the centerpiece of the health care overhaul, takes effect, it has become increasingly clear that the ship known as our health care system is in the process of sinking. And it is not spiraling costs or an overreliance on technology that is weighing most heavily on the health care system, but the sheer volume of patients it must serve.
Currently overloaded with a rapidly aging patient population and their attendant complex medical problems, the system has yet to absorb the 32 million newly insured patients on the horizon. Moreover, over the next 10 years, a third of current physicians will retire, and the physician deficit will increase from just over 7,000 to almost 100,000, with shortages in all specialties, and not just primary care.
But like crew members frantically moving deck chairs, policy makers, medical center administrators, third-party payers and even doctors and patients have remained focused on one thing: the physicians. In all the discussions about adjusting the number of medical schools and training slots, rearranging physician payment schedules and reorganizing practice models, one group of providers has been conspicuously missing.
The nurses. Read more…

First Year Nurse: Wisdom, Warnings, and What I Wish I’d Known My First 100 Days on the Job [Hardcover]

Your first 100 days at a new job could be daunting—unless you go in prepared. First Year Nurse places the wisdom and warnings of hundreds of experienced nurses right at your fingertips. You’ll learn all about how to start off on the right foot; plan and prioritize; communicate with your colleagues; cope with challenging patients; keep your energy up (and stress down); and set a course for professional growth. Best of all, you’ll be inspired by the compassion, insight, and enth (more…)