Oklahoma City University Online Nursing Blog
Nursing is a broad profession that can have an immense impact wherever you want to take it. While there’s no question that bedside nurses play indispensable roles in patient care, there’s a myriad of nursing careers that prioritize a nurse’s other strengths or interests.
Experience and instinct aren’t enough to help you make the right decisions in patient care. Understanding medical research and how it applies to current practice means nurses must be able to interpret statistics. Learn why understanding statistics is critical to becoming an accomplished nurse.
One of the best aspects of this field is the number of opportunities you have to move in a different direction, yet stay connected to the job you love. Have you considered working as a nurse manager? You still have the opportunity to work with patients in a clinical setting, and you also get to represent your team to your organization’s management.
Community-Based Public Health nursing students from OCU begin classes this fall. Learn more about the newest specialization for online MSN students.
Social justice is practically inherent to nursing. In fact, Provision 8 of the Nursing Code of Ethics declares that “the nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities.”
Public health nursing is an all-encompassing field affected by human and natural events alike. While the COVID-19 pandemic taught us that some things are unpredictable, the future of public health nursing is generally predicated on developments and trends in technology, science, politics or society’s shifts and popular culture.
Vaccines are often considered to be one of the greatest achievements in public health. Infectious diseases that once wrought devastating illness, death, and chaos among smaller communities and entire countries, are now considered much more manageable. Keep reading to learn about nurses’ role in the fight against disease with vaccination and immunization, the history of the field and more.
Now that you’ve made the decision to return to nursing school, you need to complete each step of your application–including procuring letters of recommendation. Our guide has advice for who, how and when to ask for recommendations no matter what your background.
Why is it important to understand health care trends? The direction that the health care industry is moving toward, which includes changes in the way things are done and disruptive new technologies, helps health care professionals to understand patients’ needs and how an organization’s business model can be updated to meet them.
Nursing is a profession that has been around for centuries, and it has played a vital role in health care throughout history. From the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Greece to the modern health care systems of today, nursing has evolved and adapted to meet the changing understanding of science and needs of society.