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The current recession in the country motivated several people to change their current career course or forego another career in order to find a much stable career jobs that are quite suited to their financial need and as well to their chosen profession. With that, the health care field was been able to manage to get out from the worst storm of economic challenge and become one of the reason why there are several individuals who shifted their careers or even obtain another career course particularly choosing healthcare field. As of now, the nursing school of Salt Lake Community College had already become one of the popular choices among those individuals who are looking for stability in their career course. Nursing course program become a huge demand in the healthcare system in the country and even recession has nothing to do with opening several job vacancies for nursing field or profession in the different healthcare institutes especially to the different hospitals in the United States.

The current nursing shortage in the country created a huge demand for several individuals to gain a secure job employment as long they will be obtaining nursing course program. With that, it motivates several learners to forego a nursing career education. According to Dr. Joyce Barra who is the current division chair of nursing program at this S.L.C.C. stated that economic recession provides solution in easing up the nursing shortage in the country. Since, those people who haven’t gained any employment are returning to school and forego a nursing education whether as being part time or full time student. But Dr. Barra stated that things will be changing once the economy will be rebounding. With that, the college schools are now trying to admit several learners into their nursing program. Currently, the Salt Lake Community College got some budget in order to fund several faculty positions. As a result, they can only admit limited numbers of learners. As of now, the school is looking some other options in order to fill this need.

Last year, Salt Lake Community College had just started an online program just this last semester. Since, there are looking for some venue in changing the curriculum in order for those nursing learners who got a full time jobs be still be able to study as part time learners. Regardless of what kind of route that you’ll be taking, it’s quite necessary to first complete this number of prerequisites that includes the human anatomy and even chemistry. Once, the nursing campus schools especially Salt Lake Community had already accepted the requirements, there’s a need to wait for about two or three years in order to step foot into classroom setting lectures. Since, the coursework is combine two setting which is working inside the classroom and doing clinical work in the different hospital or serve as an assistant living facility.

Last Tuesday, the commissioner of state education department already sends memo to the entire school district in America especially the nursing schools in regards to the epidemic about swine flu virus. The memo provides information about some preventive measures in order to evade this swine flu from affecting the learners. Memo that been sent to the nursing and medical schools in the country contains some special information about swine flu virus and request of support of this health care learners to be part in controlling the developing of swine flu and even support the society to be more alert, and cautious about hygienic aspect in order to avoid any illnesses especially this contagious swine flu virus. This memo were already posted to the all school district in the country with certain or specific steps that can be done or undertake about this epidemic.

Commissioner Ken James together with the Health Department worked on for the drafting this memo in order to provide information to the public about this contagious diseases flu and the precaution that must be taken. In the memo, schools encourages their learners even school staff members or administrators to send them home if ever they got a flu like symptoms and got a fever that is over 100 degrees already. Aside of that, those individuals who got a respiratory illness just to stay home and most importantly it stated in the memo to avoid close contact to those individuals or someone who are coughing or even sneezing. Furthermore, it encourages everyone to do several hand washing. As of now, the different health care institutes that include the nursing schools and medical educational learning institutes join in the campaign about the preventive measure in order to avoid swine flu virus such as posting or hugging posters that contains about frequent hand washing, some hygienic activities, and how to wash the hands in a correct manner.

In the different hospitals in the country, the hospital administration provide several career training to their nursing staffs, doctors, and hospital staffs or personnel’s about swine flu virus and how to take care patients who got this virus and as well on how to take care of themselves in order to evade this virus especially if they are taking care patients who got the swine flu virus. Different preventive measures and hygienic activities are provided in order to ensure that the entire health care institutes or hospitals are already prepared in combating these swine flu viruses. This preparation that been taken are not to create any panics but as well to prepare everyone especially in the healthcare system to be more vigilant and be cautious in protecting their health and as well to the entire society.

Its been statistically estimated that about 1 million people or more will settle in their home for the next ten years to come due to old age especially that every years more and more individuals are getting older and reaching at the age of 65. With that statistical estimation, it’s very clear that the health care personnel are very much in needed especially the nurses and technological things in order to deal the health care needs of that time. Aside of that, its also projected that ten years to come is a shortage for registered nurses for about 6,000 of it. Its really a challenge for the State of Virginia to raise several more nurses profession in their society in order to deal the need of their state for the next ten years to come especially that nurses performs a very important function in the health care system. Several studies have indicated that hospitals that got well educated and well trained nurses got fewer concerns on their fields or occurrence of medication errors. As a result, patients stay for fewer days and lessening the cost of health expenditures.

With that, it’s very much important to remind and encourage the different nursing schools in the country especially in the Northern Virginia to educate and well trained their nursing students in order to be fully equip in doing their profession or assigned tasks in the different hospitals or health care institution and as well don’t need several nursing educational training especially now that some hospital in Northern Virginia are using their own resources and even sometimes connect with the local or state governments in order to trained further their hired registered nurses for career development in their job functions. Not only that, there are several hospitals that got some vacancy in their nursing staffs due to retirement and they can’t find some qualified nursing applicants to fill up the job positions. Since, most of the nurses that been applying are lacking some educational training of their field or profession as one important core member in the healthcare team.

With that, several hospitals in the United States especially in the state of Northern Virginia are collaborating with the different nursing school administration in order to ear out their concern about the nursing qualities that they are looking upon hiring newly nursing staffs in their health care institutions especially for the different hospitals.

Kelly McCartney is one of the nursing students in America. On her experience as being a nursing student, she didn’t expect it really entails a lot of training and studying that must be render in order to become efficient on its chosen career field. Like with her other friends and classmate, they also experience the same thing that Kelly experience especially that they are studying in one of the prestigious and quality State college in America which is the Saddleback College. In which, there are several subject programs that really requires much time to render in order to understand its concept and be able to apply in real life career setting especially when its time for them to undergo actualization of their learning which is the on job training in the different hospital or health care institutions in order to practice the aspects that they have learned in school setting and become efficient in doing their career jobs or professions in the future when they will be formally employed after they have finish their nursing education.

As of now, several young individuals and even adults are foregoing nursing program due to the high demand of this profession in the country. As a result, it can be seen that there are several enrollees in the different nursing schools in the country even online nursing schools or online schools that offers an online degree program of accredited nursing course. Most of these nursing learners who are foregoing online setting are those who can’t afford to it as fulltime nursing student in campus setting due to financial or schedule restriction. But these nursing online learners chosen to study these professions in order to support the nursing system in the country and be oriented fully about nursing career. In the school setting, aside of gaining quality educational concept; learners are quite trained in order to face real life scenario about nursing education with the support of simulation lab, computer system and animated dummy.

With these educational gadgets, the learners are practice on the concepts that they have discussed in their field courses that needs actualization especially in the pediatric care. Saddleback State College is just one of the prestigious schools in the United States that provides a good quality of education and training in order for these learners become a better and efficient nurse in the society specifically nursing health care field.

Travel nursing is now one of the hottest professions today in the US with a lot of students enrolling. This means the goals and mission of the school is effective and they were able to get support from a lot of people interested in the new nursing career in this part of America. Below are major reasons why travel nursing is now the hottest profession as far as nursing is concerned.

1. Travel nursing is a new career for registered nurses. This means the demand is really strong so that more and more students enroll in this particular career. Nurses and other Health care professionals allied with this profession have very important roles in the community. It is now an exciting and rewarding career options for nurses and other allied health care professionals.
2. Travel nursing allows students to go places. This is also one of the main reasons why more students have noticed this nursing opportunity in the US and other countries in Europe. The travel they experience is really great and they learn many things. Travel is the best education and travel nurses knew they would learn many things when they travel to places.
3. Travel nurses receive high-paying jobs. Most travel nurses receive bigger salaries because of the nature of their works in the community. They are always assigned in the far-flung areas service only by few nurses and professionals. This means the experience they can get is truly amazing. They start at over $6,000 monthly salaries for 4 to 8 weeks they are contracted. The most common travel nursing partners in America include the American Mobile Healthcare, Nurses Rx, Medical Express, and Preferred Healthcare Staffing.
4. Travel nursing as a profession is now considered in many schools world wide because of its massive marketing and promotion. Many registered nurses and students in other places are getting interested into shifting to travel nursing.
5. Bigger salaries and other benefits. This is also what is very tempting in this career is that it offers unlimited income opportunities for interested career professionals. You will be receiving a big salary plus the opportunity to work overseas. The lucrative pay include high monthly income, signing bonus, free housing, insurance coverage, clinical support and other programs.

Even if you are a registered nurse in the US if you have no enough knowledge about how you can make a very attractive resume to package your profession to prospected employers, you will still find it very hard to get a promising career opportunity. Remember that applying as a professional nurse in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and all other facilities that need nursing professionals you need to present a very attractive resume.

The following are major tips you can consider and I’m sure you can have the edge as far as employment opportunities are concerned.

1. Make a very attractive cover letter – The first thing you can do to package yourself as a registered nurse to possible employers is to prepare a very attractive cover letter. If you don’t know how to write a good introduction of yourself and your previous employment experiences you can hire a good writer to make it for you. I know you have many friends who can write English proficiently.
2. Have a good template of your resume. This is very important to make your resume very attractive and pleasing to look at. You have to impress the HR team who are going to scan your resume. Remember that first impression is lasting. This means by seeing your cover and resume template you can already amaze them and give them idea to properly scan through your experience. There are HR teams that no longer scan the content if they saw the cover letter as well as your resume template so ugly to look at. Don’t worry because you can scan for excellent resume templates online. There are many samples you can consider.
3. Make a comprehensive resume content. When you apply as a registered nurse you don’t to include unnecessary experiences in your resume that are not related to your profession. Direct t the point and list only related experiences to your nursing profession.
4. List your experiences from present backwards. You have to be organized in listing down your experiences. Place your recent job experiences on top of the list and then slowly going down to the oldest one. People who graduated online career education usually have very professional cover letters and resumes because they can easily appreciate many online samples.
5. Include a very recent photo of yourself. When placing a photo of yourself please don’t just simply cut photo from your old files and paste it. The proper way to include photo is to have your recent picture taken at the photo studio. In the photo studio you can dress up like a professional one because they have formal dresses you can use during the photo session. You should submit a very attractive photo taken by professional photographers. This is one mistake of many applicants because they just take their photo for granted and submit old ones. Remember you have to impress the company you are applying for a position.

Effective resume writing for nursing professionals is also important when one graduated from college and start looking for job opportunities. But even when you have finished college if you do not know how to make an effective resume, it could also ruin your job search activities. There may have been many opportunities but you are denied, simply because of your inability to write effective resume for yourself boasting your career jobs.

Here are some tips how you would be able to make your effective resume as a nursing professional. Remember, the making of resume vary from what degree you finish so that you can attract possible employers.

1. Content speaks – In writing a good resume many professionals say content really speaks rather than any other techniques. But how you would be able to have your best content possible? There are criteria you should consider before preparing for your best content. This means you should only focus the content in your resume of all the things only related to nursing. You should avoid putting unnecessary information such as other job experiences not related to your profession. This would not count for you and could only ruin your day. Job experiences that are not related to your profession have no weight as far as your supposed employer is concerned. They only need to know those that become part of your profession. If the content of your CV Resume is amazing you can easily find a job.
2. Resume templates – These templates are also very important in having a very professional CV Resume. This is because it would add glamour to your content. If you may have noticed, there are resumes that are uniquely designed while there are also some that are looking awkward for a nursing application. Nowadays, students have learned a lot as far as developing their careers in nursing. They can always make a good research online to have a boost in their careers. In the US, you should be a registered nurse (RN) before you can start looking for various opportunities in the health care professions. This means career jobs are easy to find in the US if you have what it takes to become a good employee of the government.

The nursing shortage experience in the US is now coming to its end with the massive creation of nursing websites. This will help encourage more students in the US to take nursing courses. This new website is design also to help nursing graduates find jobs easily.

My-Nursing-Career.com can easily provide list of nursing schools, nursing jobs as well as career advice from nursing professionals who are also experts in the field. There are also other career resources everyone could enjoy when they visit the website to get enough information. It offers all advertised nursing jobs online from three big resources such as HotJobs, Monster and CareerBuilder. This is what will make this website superior from other existing nursing career websites. Students can freely access the site if they too would want to get information about the nursing profession in many parts of the globe. Jeff Morrow, site marketer, said My-Nursing-Career.com is now felt in the worldwide web also provide access that paying employers posted in their website.

Netsurfers and nursing students and professionals can also find:

• Nursing education news updates
  This means students can also regularly visit the site as they would also provide more updates regarding the nursing profession, giving students more knowledge and resources. The website would soon become a one-stop-shop for everyone – the nursing employers, the schools, the students, the advertisers and especially to the nursing professionals.
• New information for nursing career offers
  New information for new nursing career offers is also expected in this website soon when it becomes a one-stop-shop for everyone. However, the focus of the website is still in the hot jobs because this is the main goal to provide more career opportunities to nursing professionals.
• Hottest nursing jobs in the planet
  Of course there would be listing of the hottest nursing careers in the planet for registered nurses. Among the hottest jobs in nursing today include travel nurses, legal nurses, forensic nurses and several others. You just have to click a particular state in the US and other parts of the globe and you can easily find list of available jobs. Of course if there is nursing online degree you can also find online opportunities for nursing jobs. All of these opportunities would become available soon according to reports from sources. This is a commitment the site would like to commit in the next few years as the site grows and become the center for all nursing professionals and students.

One of the best repayment programs for nurses today is the NELRP, an acronym for Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program. This very competitive program repays at least 60 percent of the registered nurses’ loan balance which qualifies for the program, in exchange for the service within two years which is already considered in a facility in critical shortage. The program participants may be considered to work a third year plus 25 percent additional for the loan balance that also qualifies.

NELRP is authorized by the Public Health Service Act based on Section 846 to assist in performing retention as well as recruitment of professional nurses that are serving underserved communities.

The program for registered nurses is now applied by many professionals as the student loan repayment is up to 60 percent of the loan balance that qualify. This means this is now one of the very effective programs for nursing professionals which have problems on repayment of their students loans while still in college. It is also an answer to the problems which is long been kept by professionals because of no available programs which can help them solve their loan repayment problems.

Registered nurses eligible to apply for the NELRP should meet the following requirements:

1. Graduate of a baccalaureate or associate degree in nursing from an accredited state’s school of nursing.
2. Have a loan in college which can qualify for the program leading to a diploma in nursing education
3. Finished a nursing program in which the loan balance applies
4. Should be a US citizen, national who resides in the US
5. Should be employed full time in a facility considered on critical shortage
6. Should be employed in a facility considered as non-profit
7. Have a permanent nursing license in the US as registered nurse especially at the state he wants to practice profession.
8. Submitted an application for NELRP and also signed the NELRP contract, forms and other documentation required.