These important roles have titles that include Life Care Planner, Legal Nurse Consultant, and Nurse Navigator, just to name a few. They’re critical jobs to assisting patients and their loved ones without being hands-on in terms of care. If you’re interested in applying your skills in a different way, one of these nursing jobs could be ideal for you.

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The baby boomer population is ageing, which means the demand for care is increasing. Healthcare is a fast growing sector that is continually seeking motivated, skilled individuals to perform a wide range of jobs. The opportunities available today include nursing, technology, medical assistants, medical office operations, and so much more.

Millennials seeking a stable, rewarding career would be wise to consider the healthcare field.

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As the baby boomer population in the US ages, health care needs continue to rise and to become more complex, and the need for quality caregivers has grown more urgent.

Nurses are a critical element to a strong healthcare system, providing essential care to patients in hospitals, long term care facilities, and even in patient’s homes, to name just a few places. Nursing remains a strong career choice for those with the right combination of knowledge, skills, compassion, and expertise.

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Patients come from a broad range of cultural backgrounds, and the healthcare industry should also reflect that in order to best serve the needs of their clients. Nurses bring their own unique experiences to the field, and this only serves to strengthen it.

Diversity should and must be valued in nursing in order to ensure a strong system that represents patients from all walks of life and that is capable of serving their unique healthcare needs.

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For nurses who prefer a dynamic work environment and like to connect with their patients, this is an attractive job opportunity.

Nurses get to be out in the field, travel to each patient’s home and provide the specialized care that they need.

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Demand in a particular specialty also impacts salaries, as well as your location, so there’s a lot to consider.

The median income for a registered nurse is $67,490, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The actual income that you can expect to earn can vary greatly, and could always be more or less than the median.

The type of healthcare facility that you work for and the area where you live will have a significant impact on your salary.

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Though this might be stating the obvious, I need to be heard: there is not a formula for the perfect preceptor—perfect preceptors do NOT exist! Granted, precepting can be a thankless job.

I know nurses who precept other nurses for free, meaning zero compensation from the hospital they work for. In fact, many preceptors do not have the choice of whether or not they will precept during any given shift and are just thrust into the job!

Think of all the talking and teaching and time and knowledge preceptors are expected to part with–all under the usual pressures of getting the job done. Yeah, so while being an orientee can kinda stink, being a preceptor can induce burn-out.

Anyway, I came up preceptor personalities that I think most new orientees encounter:

1. First off is the “Teacher.” These nurses know it all and love sharing their knowledge with orientees. They are loved by their coworkers and especially management because they will take on any orientee under any circumstances and teach the newbie the ropes. The only issue with “the teacher” is that they are often perfectionists and can snap at any moment. Watch out because it will be a crack heard around the world and the fallout can be severe.

2. The second type of preceptor is “Out-of-it.” “Out-of-it” does his job and manages to make the orinetees feel like they are in the way 99% of the time. Nothing is explained, nothing is taught, and the orientees are often on their own. The “Out-of-it” preceptor’s best feature is that the orientees learn hands-on and, yes, make mistakes. As long as the orientees don’t kill anyone, they can learn a lot by jumping in and doing everything without direction. Of course, if the orientees have any sense, they’ll ask for another preceptor!

3. Another preceptor I’ve encountered is “Hands-off.” In other words, the orientee will keep her HANDS OFF the patients while this nurse is in charge, and this kind of preceptor will do EVERYTHING while not imparting one iota of knowledge.

4. One of the best preceptor’s out there is the “Co-worker.” This person will work with their orientee, make a plan to provide good care to the patient while teaching along the way, and provide hands-on experience because they encourage the orientee to do as much as possible. If an orientee gets a “co-worker” they should count their blessings and make sure to provided a thank-you gift at the end of the whole ordeal!

The reality is that a good or bad preceptor makes or breaks orientation for a new nurse. So what have I learned? As a nurse on orientation, it’s important that we give our preceptors a fair chance and try to work with them.  

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Seems like everyone at work has their phone at the ready – checking into it whenever they have a quick break (where allowed). And a new study from Columbia University School of Nursing shows that it’s often a good thing. Nurses using a decision support app on their mobile devices are significantly more likely to effectively diagnose weight issues, depression and tobacco use.

The study gave a group of nearly 400 RNs enrolled in the school’s nurse practitioner programs apps to use on their mobile devices. Some nursing students received the “evidence-based decision support tools” mobile app. The app was able to calculate body mass index scores, provide prompts about tobacco use and give questions for depression screening. Other nurses received a different app that only allowed them to record patient exam results.

The most significant advantage of using the decision support app came in diagnosing obese patients. Nurses using the decision support app had a diagnosis rate of 33.9 percent for obese and overweight patients, compared to 4.8 percent for nurses using the simple record-keeping app.

The decision support app also led to an 11.9 percent diagnosis rate for tobacco use, with 2.3 percent for nurses with the other app. The depression diagnosis rate for the decision app was 8.8 percent, compared to 0.2 percent with the other app.

Many apps are currently being developed specifically to help nurses both on and off the job. We recently reported on an app designed to simplify nursing schedules, as well as apps that every ER nurse needs.

Do you use apps or websites on your mobile device during your workday? Do you find technology helping your career or getting in the way? Let us know in the comments section!

Seems like everyone at work has their phone at the ready – checking into it whenever they have a quick break (where allowed). And a new study from Columbia University School of Nursing shows that it’s often a good thing. Nurses using a decision support app on their mobile devices are significantly more likely to effectively diagnose weight issues, depression and tobacco use.

The study gave a group of nearly 400 RNs enrolled in the school’s nurse practitioner programs apps to use on their mobile devices. Some nursing students received the “evidence-based decision support tools” mobile app. The app was able to calculate body mass index scores, provide prompts about tobacco use and give questions for depression screening. Other nurses received a different app that only allowed them to record patient exam results.

The most significant advantage of using the decision support app came in diagnosing obese patients. Nurses using the decision support app had a diagnosis rate of 33.9 percent for obese and overweight patients, compared to 4.8 percent for nurses using the simple record-keeping app.

The decision support app also led to an 11.9 percent diagnosis rate for tobacco use, with 2.3 percent for nurses with the other app. The depression diagnosis rate for the decision app was 8.8 percent, compared to 0.2 percent with the other app.

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Jonathan from Advanced Care this week is bringing you an inside peek into how an RN’s dream may be just around the corner. Often in the recruitment world, there are open positions, and available nurses. The system is simple: search for an RN meeting the qualifications and get him/her the next job he/she is searching for. Now, it is easy when a nurse is actively on the job market, when things have gotten to the point that he/she needs to be very proactive in order to secure a new employment immediately. The secret of recruitment is that while there may be qualified candidates actively searching, there are many qualified nurses who equally feel the need to find a new job- they just don’t know all the possible ways to make themselves visible.

This is where our team of recruiters comes in. We know when a good job comes in, and we know there are very good nurses out there who would be interested, but just don’t know how to tell us. We use various external and internal tools available to find RN’s that have at some point in the last few years done some action that has gotten them noticed. Many RN’s work very hard and just don’t have the time to be the one doing all the work to find a new job, so we come in to soften and ease in the process of transition.
I have had the privilege of working with many RN’s that were desperately searching for a better job, but had not gotten noticed, and therefore had been having a hard time finding a new opportunity. Here at Advanced Care, we try and seek out the RN’s that do not know how to find the best jobs, in addition to the ones that seem to know all the tips and tricks.

If you are interested in finding a better job, whether it is a better salary, benefits for you and your family, or just a better shift so that you can maximize your day, let us do most of the work and take that additional pressure off your shoulders, and carry it onto our own. Send us your resume and we will do the rest, and we will remember you for years to come.

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