http://www.rnbuilder.com/blog Gateway To Your Nursing Education Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:44:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Professional nursing organizations provide opportunities for nurses to branch out of their existing workplace to meet new people and learn new things. The health care and nursing fields are constantly evolving and growing, and keeping your eyes solely on the job in front of you can be detrimental over the ... http://www.rnbuilder.com/blog/nursing-career/professional-nursing-organizations/ Nursing has long been a female-dominated field, and it has undergone drastic changes in the past 100 years. However, images of those early nursing days (young women in white dresses and hats) have remained, whether as part of society's tendency toward sexual objectification or by patients who actually remember a ... http://www.rnbuilder.com/blog/nursing-career/nursing-attire-patient-perception/ Within the nursing field, opportunities for job promotion and advancement aren't as common as most people think. Most nurses work on a fairly level playing field, and although you might choose to specialize, chances are you won't actually adopt a supervisory role without a real effort to get there. One area ... http://www.rnbuilder.com/blog/nursing-career/nurse-case-manager/ With the exception of government-run and VA facilities, hospitals fall into one of two categories: for-profit and non-profit organizations. As the names suggest, for-profit hospitals are those that are run as a business, dedicated to turning a profit for the shareholders. Non-profit hospitals, on the other hand, take monies earned ... http://www.rnbuilder.com/blog/nursing-career/for-profit-vs-non-profit-hospital/ One of the things new nurses are commonly told is that they'll need to purchase malpractice insurance before they can start working at many hospitals and other health care organizations. In some cases, the employer (or state licensing board) requires the insurance; in others, it's simply good ... http://www.rnbuilder.com/blog/nursing-career/malpractice-insurance/