Career Advice

The nurse’s voice is essential and critical to the governance of healthcare organizations. Nurses, after all, represent the largest professional group in healthcare, account for the greatest human resources expense, and-most importantly-are closest to patients and their families, physicians, and the community.

This book provides practicing nurses and those pursuing a nursing career a thorough understanding of the many career options available outside the hospital.

Business Basics for Nurses is a practical guide that informs and expands thinking for nurses considering or already involved in business.

Nursing has been consistently lauded as the most trusted profession, but it has a dirty secret: As colleagues and employees, nurses often do not receive the same care and kindness they give to patients.

Like the parts of a body, research systems interact and support each other. From clinical nurses testing a new protocol to nurse researchers at a university, professionals and students are now expected to understand the fundamentals of research.