Healthcare Careers

Welcome to the Healthcare Career Category where you’ll find information on career management, jobs and professional networking for nurses, physicians and allied health professionals.

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Top 10 Details to Include on a Nursing Resume and 2021 Writing Guide

It’s difficult to write a compelling nursing resume in 2021. For starters, nursing professions encompass hundreds of skills and career details. Therefore, it’s difficult to determine which details you should include on your resume. Moreover, it’s difficult to differentiate your nursing resume from all the others with the same exact skills! In this article, we draw on over 40 years of combined experience as nurse recruiters to provide everything you’ll need to create exceptional nursing resumes for 2021. Read more

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5 Reasons You Should Join a Professional Nursing Organization Now

Whether you just earned your registered nurse (RN) licensure, are still studying to become a nurse or have been practicing for decades, membership in a professional nursing organization can benefit you in many ways.

Of course, there are countless organizations to choose from, as we’ll later discuss. Some, like the American Nurses Association, are open to all RNs and nursing students. Others, like Delta Gamma At-Large Honor Society, a chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, are by invitation only, based on nursing school GPA and other criteria. As a member school of Delta Gamma At-Large Honor Society, at Marquette University, we strongly encourage students of our Direct Entry Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) who are invited to join this prestigious organization and take advantage of all it has to offer them. Read more

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Getting Hands-on with Technology in Nursing Education

As technology advances, nursing programs, like Xavier University’s Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) program, are finding new ways to incorporate these advances to impact students for the better. Read on for some of the ways Xavier is helping today’s nursing students better learn the basics, practice their skills, and manage many aspects of their education electronically for greater understanding, convenience, and flexibility. Read more

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The Ultimate Guide to Nursing Resume Builders

Resume writing is a daunting task. This is especially true for nurses. They must contend with all of the standard challenges plus additional challenges that are unique to nursing careers. Fortunately, there are many resume builders designed to simplify the process.  However, it can be difficult for nurses to determine which are best suited to meet their unique needs. So in this article, we’ll take a look at the various options available in order to help you find a nursing resume builder that’s perfect for you. Read more

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The Nursing Job Search Book Every Nurse Needs

Landing your first job as a newly graduated Registered Nurse can be an arduous and intimidating endeavor. Sadly, the vast majority of nursing schools don’t offer courses specifically designed to prepare their students for the job search process. Instead, the vast majority of job search resources offered by schools as well as those available in the open market are general in nature. Unfortunately, these general resources do not address the unique aspects of nursing job searches and thus leave candidates woefully under-equipped. So in this article, we’ll take a look at a book written specifically for nursing job searches with a focus on landing that first nursing job. Read more

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Scholarships and Reimbursement for RNs: 5 Avenues for Obtaining the Funds to Accelerate Your Nursing Career

There are a plethora of decisions when it comes to nursing school—some of them manifest before you even show up to class and many of them come after graduation.

Before you start nursing school, you need to decide which undergraduate pathway will lead you to the take the standardized National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)-RN, and how you will pay for that degree. After graduation though, there’s still time to obtain reimbursement if the decisions you made prior to starting nursing school weren’t the most favorable to your bank account. We’ve outlined how you can obtain scholarships for nursing school before you start, and reimbursement for school related debt while you’re working as a registered nurse. The good thing is that you have plenty of financial support as an RN from private organizations to the government, and beyond. Read more

We Heart RNs World Record Video From Medical Solutions

To honor nurses everywhere, the good folks at Medical Solutions set a world record for the largest human formation of the letters “RN” surrounded by heart on April 21, 2016. They released a short video documenting the event which can be viewed below. Read more