Through an extensive renovation, Illinois Wesleyan University has aligned the physical space of its School of Nursing with the growing need of laboratory and simulation learning for the training of nursing students. The century-old Stevenson Hall was transformed into a facility with a layout that closely...
Over the past decades, nursing has become a booming career - there are more than 3.1 million registered nurses in the U.S. alone. The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 16% growth in employment of registered nurses over the next 12 years,...
A residency is a postgraduate training program which allows the resident to perform as a licensed practitioner while under the supervision of an experienced teacher. Usually thought of as the domain of physicians and pharmacists, residencies for nurse practitioners are starting to trend. Although they...
As simulation continues to voraciously permeate the medical educational landscape, nursing students have been starting to benefit from the innovative learning stratosphere it provides. The methodologies traditionally used in nursing school has begun to shift from textbooks, lecture halls, heavily highlighted class notes, to a modern nursing classroom,...
Global standards in the healthcare industry have been recommended by thought leaders in medicine for decades who have said that worldwide uniformity could dramatically improve patient safety and increase the overall effectiveness of healthcare systems. While there are several organizations dedicated to uniting healthcare systems...
Primary healthcare is inarguably one of the most important specialties of medicine because of how many people it affects on a day-to-day basis. Since the passing of The Affordable Care Act in 2010, nearly 30 million previously uninsured people now receive health care insurance, dramatically increasing the number of patients who seek...
Student loan debt is a topic discussed often by the media and politicians, but no one really understands how frustrating student loans can be more than those suffering from the debt incurred. This applies to nursing students, as well as medical students. The NSNA New Graduate Annual Survey...
