Nursing FAQ

1. Future nurses start here

1.1 How to Get Started in Nursing?
1.2 Why be a Nurse?
1.3 7 Surprising Things You'll Learn About Nursing
1.4 How to Choose the Right Nursing School?
1.5 How to Pay for Nursing School?
1.6 How to Apply Your Healthcare Experience?
1.7 Write a Winning Scholarship Essay?

2. Launch your nursing career

2.1 Write a Winning Resume?

2.2 How to Ace an Interview?

2.3 How to Dress for Interview Success?

2.4 How Foreign Educated Nurses Can Practice in the US?

2.5 How Nurses Are Using Technology?

3. General information on nurses and nursing

3.1 What is nursing? What do nurses do?
3.2 How can I become a nurse?
3.3 Just how undervalued and underfunded is nursing?
3.4 What is the nursing shortage and why does it exist?
3.5 What are problems thwarting nursing recruitment and retention?
3.6 Are you sure nurses are autonomous? Based on what I've seen, it sure looks like physicians are caling the shots.
3.7 Magnet status: What it is, what it is not and what it could be.
3.8 How many nurses are there? How old are they? Do they outnumber physicians?
3.9 How is nurse migration affecting nurses and the nursing scarcity?

4. The value of nursing

4.1 What happens to patients when nurses are short-staffed? The value of good nurse-to-patient ratios?
4.2 Are nurses cost-effective?
4.3 Do physicians deliver better care than Advanced Practice Nurses?
4.4 Landmark JAMA study finds nurses to be autonomous, skilled, nation reels.
4.5 Learn about the value of school nurses. 
4.6 New ways to think about nursing
4.7 Workplace difficulty? Check out our suggestions