Nursing Education

“There are programs graduating nurse practitioners with no experience, and that’s incredibly challenging for them, for the hospitals and for the clinics they go into,”

Publish date: September 4, 2024 By  Ronnie Cohen  KFF Health News One of California’s two programs for training nurse-midwives has stopped admitting students while it revamps its curriculum to offer only doctoral degrees, a move that’s drawn howls of protest from alumni, health policy experts, and faculty who accuse the University of California of putting

Mariah Taylor (Email) Becker’s Hospital Review Last year, a patient at Aurora, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center died after a hospital technician turned off their notification device, the Canon City Daily Record reported Aug. 15. The VA’s Office of Inspector General investigated the situation in spring 2023. It found a telemetry medical instrument

Paige Twenter – Becker’s Clinical Leadership Nursing profession advocate RegisteredNursing.org has ranked the best nursing licensing programs by their National Council Licensure Examination-RN pass rates. Passage rates among all RN programs — associate’s, bachelor’s, direct-entry master’s — were assessed. The organization weighted each school’s pass rates by the recency of the exam between two and

Ashleigh Hollowell (Twitter) –  Becker’s Clinical Leadership Nurse educators are notably in high demand, but the desire to become one has been generally low in recent years. Several factors are at play: nurse educators often receive lower pay than clinical practice, and qualified nurses typically must choose between clinical practice and teaching, experts shared with