Nursing Education

Erica Carbajal – Becker’s Clinical Leadership Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health has launched a six-month residency program that offers new nurses specialized training and mentoring in their intended area of practice. Four details: The program recently welcomed its first cohort and aims to train around 750 nurses per year. New nurses are automatically enrolled in the

Jodi Helmer is a freelance journalist who writes about health and wellness for Fortune, AARP, WebMD, Fitbit, and GE HealthCare. Nursing is a competitive field. In 2022, nursing schools rejected more than 78,000 qualified applications, and the students whose applications were accepted faced demanding schedules and rigorous academics and clinical rotations. Is this a recipe

MDedge |Internal Medicine Jodi Helmer Only 12% of the nurses providing patient care at hospitals and health clinics today are men. Although the percentage of nurses has increased — men made up just 2.7% of nurses in 1970 — nursing is still considered a “pink collar” profession, a female-dominated field. “We’ve made strides over the

Florida State University recently launched the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium By Hunter Boyce – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Artificial intelligence isn’t just creeping into the health care workspace; it’s also entering the classroom. Florida State University has launched the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, and it’s bringing a first-of-its kind nursing degree along