ADVANCE for Nurses
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ADVANCE for Nurses Hurry! The deadline for ADVANCE's Best Nursing Team contest has been extended to Jan. 25. Come on! We want to recognize your team!http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Article/Best-Nursing-Team-2010.aspx

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Does your team adapt well to changes and challenges? Does it thrive even in tough times? Does it have a passion for patient care? Let us help you shout it from the rooftops!
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In The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year by Michael Stein, MD, a New England internist who specializes in treating addiction, tells the story of his year-long treatment of Lucy, a young woman seeking care for addiction to opiates. Caring for people dependent on narcotics - Vicodin, heroin...
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In the movies, 2010 has been portrayed as a year of odyssey, finding answers to difficult questions and then finding a way to work together with others toward a common goal. That view sums up my entire list of New Year's resolutions this year, and if...(read more)
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ADVANCE for Nurses Navigating the Digital World: How to keep using social media once your coworkers become your "friends." http://tinyurl.com/yaqd36v

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ADVANCE for Nurses Nursing Know-How, Empathy Pull a Baby Through: Brooke and Kamryn Studdard arrived in this world on June 17, 2009, at Parkland Hospital, Dallas, TX, and both went straight into neonatal intensive care. Brooke went home after 5 days. Kamryn stayed - and stayed. http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Student-and-New-Grad-Center/St...udent-Top-Story/Nursing-Know-How-Plus-Lots-of-Empathy-Pulls-a-Baby-Through.aspx?rpid=14

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Tue at 7:14am
Sara
Sara
Great story.
Wed at 12:47pm
Charise
Charise
Amazing story, thanks for sharing!
Yesterday at 11:44am
Ericka

Ericka Well, im 18 and entered my freshman year of college with a cna certificate. im currently studying to be a neonatal nurse. 1 semester down, 7 to go... wish me luck!

January 4 at 6:36pm · Report
Sara
Sara
good luck...we all started where you are at now
Tue at 12:47am
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Yea Ericka! That's awesome! Best of luck to you! Check out ADVANCE's New Grad Center as you continue in your studies to help you prepare for being a new nurse. http://nursing.advanceweb.com/ResourceCenter/studentHome.aspx?RPID=14
Tue at 5:05am
Stephanie

Stephanie Raised all my children and now @ 39 I am finally beginning my first semester in pursuing my life long dream of becoming an OB/GYN nurse. It will take me quite some time but time is all I have now. Needless to say I am "Ecstatic" Woop Woop =)

January 4 at 6:21pm · Report
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Way to go Stephanie! That's great! ADVANCE has lots of articles/materials on ob/gyn and women's health nursing, so take a look! Best of luck to you...Woop Woop : )
Tue at 5:06am
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This week marks my eighth anniversary of Emergency Nursing.  It seems like yesterday I walked in there, scared out of my mind. I faced a mountain of knowledge to learn and skills to obtain.  But I did it.  And after three months, I was done with orientation and on my own.  Tho...
Christine Mitchell
Christine Mitchell
I started in July as a new grad going into Emergency Nursing. I felt exactly as you described, scared out of my mind and praying I was making the right decision. I also faced the mountain of skills to learn, including learning to chart everything we do on the computer at the same time. I am done with orientation and beginning the New Year filled ... See Morewith hope, dreams and fears as well. I hope that someday soon I will have the confidence and knowledge to share as others have done with me. I know it is a neverending process of learning, and as I have learned from your post, I'm sure that over the years there will continue to be many changes in nursing. At this point I look forward to gaining knowledge and experience.
January 4 at 11:15am
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Grab your passport! We're traveling across the Atlantic Ocean to pick up our guide -- guest blogger Malene Steen Nielsen Flagga of Copenhagen, Denmark. She will take us on an adventure to Vellore, India, to meet some nurses, many from the African nation...(read more)
Aida Cabrera-Moro
Aida Cabrera-Moro
Many of nurses here in US looking for work! I have a clinical group of 8 new grads from Molloy that I would highly recommend!! Prof. Moro
Tue at 2:55am
Adrienne Crunden

Adrienne Crunden someone please tell me why LPNs are so looked down on. aren't we all ateam? not everyone can be or wants to be an RN! give us some respect!!

January 3 at 5:34pm · Report
Carla Moncrief
Carla Moncrief
I give you much respect girl, let me tell you when I was going to nursing school I learned a whole lot more from the LPN's the RN's and I am still happy to take advice from an LPN any day, don't let those old bitter nurses bring you down!
January 3 at 11:15pm
Jan

Jan Just beginning my 1st semester as a nursing student. I'm 42 yrs old and really excited to finally pursue my life long dream! Hoping to utilize all ADVANCE for Nurses has to offer!

January 1 at 4:20pm · Report
Samantha Johnson
Samantha Johnson
Thats awesome. Just graduated Dec. 10th. Welcome to the world of nursing
January 4 at 11:11am
Terrie DeLacy Kelly
Terrie DeLacy Kelly
I graduated at age 48! You can do it! Best of luck! Subscribe to the the newsletter for student nurses on the Advance for nurses website.
January 4 at 4:22pm
Patricia Jenkins

Patricia Jenkins May you live with courage, passion, joy, and peace

January 1 at 3:09pm · Report
Valerie Neff Newitt

Valerie Neff Newitt Who's ready to get in shape? It's not a resolution, it's just a smart move.... Join ADVANCE colleague Kay Bensing, MA, RN, and myself as we launch a new ADVANCE blog, Sharing the Journey. We're still "under construction," but this little heads up will give you time to clear the junk from your pantry and prep for a fit... body and mind prior to our latter-this-month debut. NOTHING tastes as sweet as increased self esteem!

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January 1 at 11:18am · Report
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ADVANCE for Nurses Happy New Year from all of us at ADVANCE for Nurses! May 2010 be filled with health and happiness!

December 31, 2009 at 9:06am
Carol Seavey Seely
Carol Seavey Seely
Happy New Year!
December 31, 2009 at 11:39am
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ADVANCE for Nurses Got a Minute? ADVANCE has launched a fun, new Web feature. Check it out! http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Regional-Articles/Features/Got-A-Minute.aspx?prg=15

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