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Nursing Blog, Chat, Forum, Nursing Career Jobs, Nursing Degrees, Programs, Nursing Homes, NursingMail.com, Nursing Scrubs, Uniforms, Nursing Schools, Colleges, Scholarships (Nursing), Traveling Nurses
Nursing Topics, A to Z: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Nursing Degrees, LPN-RN, RN-BSN, RN-MSN, Associate, Bachelors, Masters and more!
Free Downloads, Games, Software, and more!

See also: What Attracted You To The Field of Nursing (From Nurse Interviews).

Today's Registered Nurse — Numbers and Demographics, American Nurses Association (ANA):"Registered nurses (RNs) are the largest segment of the health care work force. 2,239,816 people living in the United States are educated and licensed to practice as RNs, and 1,853,024 are employed RNs. RNs come from every socio-economic class, every state, and every neighborhood in America. This diversity grants them a special understanding of the people for whom they care. What follows is a statistical portrait of today's RN, compiled from The Registered Nurse Population, Findings from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, March 1992, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration."
American Nurses Association
600 Maryland Avenue, SW Suite 100 West Washington, DC 20024-2571
1-800-274-4ANA, webmaster@ana.org
http://www.nursingworld.org/readroom/fsdemogr.htm

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Restructuring, Work Redesign, and the Job and Career Security of Registered Nurses, Position Statement, American Nurses Association (ANA):"The American Nurses Association (ANA) is committed to safeguarding the public, protecting and advancing the careers of professional nurses, supporting individual and collective efforts by registered nurses to protect their clients and enhancing the professional development and job security of registered nurses."
American Nurses Association
600 Maryland Avenue, SW Suite 100 West Washington, DC 20024-2571
1-800-274-4ANA, webmaster@ana.org
http://www.nursingworld.org/readroom/position/workplac/wkcareer.htm

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The Right to Accept or Reject an Assignment, American Nurses Association:"The American Nurses Association (ANA) believes that nurses should reject any assignment that puts patients or themselves in serious, immediate jeopardy. ANA supports the nurses obligation to reject an assignment in these situations even where there is not a specific legal protection for rejecting such an assignment."
American Nurses Association
600 Maryland Avenue, SW Suite 100 West Washington, DC 20024-2571
1-800-274-4ANA, webmaster@ana.org
http://www.nursingworld.org/readroom/position/workplac/wkassign.htm

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More Registered Nurses Working Part-Time and in Community-Based Care, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI): 1997 Figures, "(Ottawa) - The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and Statistics Canada jointly released figures today on the supply and distribution of registered nurses for 1997."
http://www.cihi.ca/facts/rn.htm

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Nebraska Health and Human Services System:"A Consumer's Guide to Nursing. The practice of nursing is a process that occurs during interaction between the nurse and the patient. This process begins with a thorough assessment of the patient's health care needs. The nurse assesses the patient's needs by interviewing the patient and the family to determine health history and current health status, by physically examining the patient, and by reviewing the patient's record including the results of diagnostic tests."
http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/crl/NrsgBro.htm

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Nursing: A Medical Emergency, and Opportunity, hits home by Ronald A. Reis and Karen F. Reis RN:"You’re an RN, and you’ve been at it, administering to the sick and wounded, for months, years, maybe even decades. You’ve got your hands full with 12-hour shifts, high turnover, an often less than supportive work environment, and a stressed-out health care system that is, in places, itself on life-support. What to do? How to keep going? How to make this job, career, meaningful again? How to get out of nursing what you went into it for? How to avoid adding to the national nursing shortage by short-circuiting your own involvement in a noble profession?"
Working Nurse, Working World Magazine
3600 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1526 Los Angeles, CA 90010
Tel:(213)385-4781, Fax:(213)385-3782, WorkingNurse@WorkingWorld.com
http://www.workingworld.com/magazine/viewarticle.asp?articleno=253&wn=1

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Patient Assessment: Roles of RNs and LVNs (California)
http://www.igc.apc.org/cna/np/np61998.html

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Registered Nurses, Occupational Outlook Handbook Home Page:"Registered nurses (R.N.'s) work to promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illness. They are advocates and health educators for patients, families, and communities. When providing direct patient care, they observe, assess, and record symptoms, reactions, and progress; assist physicians during treatments and examinations; administer medications; and assist in convalescence and rehabilitation."
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos083.htm

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Real Vermont Nurse Stories, Nursing Quiz:"Quick Quiz. Take this quick quiz to test your knowledge and see what you know about being a nurse."
Office of Nursing Workforce Research, Planning and Development
School of Nursing, University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405, phone 802-656-0023
http://choosenursingvermont.org/enter/quiz.html

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RNstudent.com:"RN schools have one thing in common: they are difficult to complete! Imagine the amount of nursing information you must learn to earn the RN degree you desire. it will become your life. Luckily there are many online nursing resources that will help you digest and understand the information taught by those nurses turned instructors. The problem is that this information can be hard to find because of the enormous amount of nursing web sites available. That's why we make RN school easier by pulling together the best nursing student resources into a convenient location. Here you will find original content as well as excellent links to other sites that will help you on your way to becoming a registered nurse."
tthomp5@columbus.rr.com
http://www.rnstudents.com/

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AS 08.68.395. Determination of Death By Registered Nurse (Alaska):
http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title08/Chapter68/Section395.htm

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What Do Nurses Do (Registered Nurse)? WhatDoTheyDo.com:"Nurses are often referred to as “Angels of Mercy” and with good reason. They assist doctors in caring for the sick, the injured and the infirm. however, aiding doctors is only a small part of their work. Most often, nurses are the primary care givers, administering medicines and doing tests and caring directly for the patients entrusted to them. Without nurses, it would not be possible to treat the many who require medical treatment or to care for the many whose conditions require monitoring."
http://www.whatdotheydo.com/nurse.htm

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Nursing As A Career, By Dale Jones RN, MSN:"The purpose of this website is to provide information about the career opportunities and educational requirements for individuals who are considering nursing as a career as well as those who wish to advance their career. In addition, there are numerous medical links for nurses, advanced practice nurses, physicians, and comsumers. These include links to Colleges which offer online degress in nursing, professional organizations, government health care websites, United States Boards of Nursing, Health care websites (A thru Z), as well as links to medical specialty sites. I have also thrown in a few items to break the routine such as Body Mass Index Calculator, Metric Conversion Calculator, and a javascript which calculates which day of the week you were born on....should you have forgotten!"
http://www.myweb.cableone.net/djonesfnp/

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