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Texas Army Nurse Prepares for Next Chapter in Leadership with MSN

Post University

Moves to Georgia and Texas broadened Lisas experience, and in 2019, she went on active duty in the Army and landed at Brook Army Medical Center in the surgical trauma intensive care unit. Ill be retiring from the military at some point soon, and I wanted to make myself more marketable as a civilian nurse.

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CPNP-PC Exam Replaces Retired PPCNP-BC Exam

Board Vitals - Nursing

According to a joint statement by the PNCB and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC): “Due to a continual low volume of test takers and the availability of the PNCB certification, the ANCC Commission on Certification decided to retire the PPCNP-BC certification. Those are the details of this most recent exam change.

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Navigating the Travel Nursing Industry in 2025: What You Need to Know

The Gypsy Nurse

billion market in 2019 to a staggering $42.7 Many hospitals are struggling with staff shortages due to retirements, burnout, and an aging population needing more care. The Market is Stabilizing (Finally!) The travel nursing industry went from a $6.5 billion in 2022only to shrink back down by 40% in 2023. billion in 2025.

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The Strategies One Nursing School Used to Combat Workplace Incivility

Health Leaders | Nursing

However, the faculty admitted their desire for a civil environment where they could experience joy in the workplace, so in May 2019, five nursing faculty launched an effort to address incivility and identify and implement effective strategies to create a civil environment so faculty could experience joy at work, according to the study.

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Critical Nursing Shortage Jeopardizes the Health of our Communities, Pending NYS Bill Can Help

Daily Nurse

This has resulted in large numbers of nurses and other healthcare workers retiring or simply leaving the profession. These statistics help illustrate the magnitude of the problem: From 2019 to 2020, job vacancies for nursing personnel increased up to 30%, and the trend is expected to persist, with an estimated shortage of up to 3.2

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Rhonda Trotter Fulfills Dream of Becoming a Nurse – 35 Years Later

Daily Nurse

After retiring from the Postal Service in 2018, she enrolled in nursing school in January 2019. She eventually went back to school to get her nursing degree, but then both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer weeks apart, and Trotter stepped back again to take care of them.

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Conference Four Years in the Making

The Relentless School Nurse

Four years from our last in-person conference in March of 2019, we proudly hosted NJSSNA Spring 2023 this past weekend. .” We canceled our conference, rightfully so, and knew within days that we had made the most protective decision.