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The Case for Soft Skills in Nursing Education

American Nurse

Individual nursing students can take initiative in honing their soft skills by seeking self-directed learning opportunities, participating in extracurricular activities, and purposefully eliciting feedback on their bedside manner from preceptors alongside clinical feedback.

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Best Direct-Entry Nurse Practitioner Programs of 2025

Registered Nursing

Here’s a breakdown of the key stages: Pre-licensure nursing education: This initial phase includes core nursing classes such as pathophysiology, pharmacology, health assessment, and clinical nursing fundamentals. Upon completion, students are eligible to sit for the NCLEX-RN exam.

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Best Online Faith-Based Online Nurse Practitioner Schools in 2025

Registered Nursing

Graduates are prepared for diverse mental health settings, with strong job prospects and high earning potential. #1 Students complete over 700 clinical hours with expert preceptors, focusing on critical care, trauma, and hospital medicine. Psychiatric-Mental Health concentration. Online MSN program.

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Preventing nurse suicide: Nursing school and beyond

American Nurse

Strategies and support to improve mental health outcomes Suicide and mental illness have long been stigmatized, and although public awareness has grown recently, partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals hesitate to acknowledge their own mental health struggles or seek help.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. References Advisory Board.

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New nurses and clinical judgment

American Nurse

Evidence-based strategies for nurse preceptors The complex role of nurse preceptor requires a combination of clinical expertise and the ability to balance patient care with learning facilitation. That’s where the nurse preceptor comes in. See Teachable moments.)

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Executive Director’s Corner | CNA

American Nurse

I came to CNA with a clinical back- ground in the emergency department and over 15 years of experience in nursing education at the ADN, BSN, and graduate levels, as well as the past two years of working with the Government Affairs and Public Policy committee of CNA.

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