American Nurse Education & Career Guide

2024-2025 EDUCATION AND CAREER GUIDE

• Nurse leadership: Pitfalls and solutions
  Consider these solutions to three common mistakes. Stepping into a formal leadership role is exciting. Whether it’s your first supervisor or manager role or an interim position with the potential to become permanent, the new responsibilities can feel empowering and overwhelming. Many of your finely honed nursing skills will serve you well as a manager,...
• Home health nursing
  Patient-centered care focused on self-sufficiency The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the term “home health” to describe a federal health insurance program that provides intermittent short-term care to help patients recover from illness and become as self-sufficient as possible at home. Professionals who participate in home health include nurses, physical therapists, occupational...
• Navigating the crossroads of nursing faculty practice
  Opportunities and challenges Faculty practice holds the potential to reshape nursing academia. The traditional roles of educators, researchers, and mentors remain essential to the academic mission, but the integration of faculty practice represents a paradigm shift that brings both opportunities and challenges. It creates a seamless connection between academia and real-world practice. Faculty practice emphasizes...
• Does money matter?
  The United States continues to experience a shortage of frontline nurses, and a critical nurse faculty shortage impedes efforts to educate nurses to meet clinical workforce demands. In 2021, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, U.S. nursing programs turned away 76,000 qualified prelicensure applicants due to a shortage of nursing faculty. Several...
• Shared governance
  Prepare nurses to lead. Shared governance provides clinical nurses with a voice and opportunities to engage within an organization. It allows them to step into leadership roles to strengthen the inpatient, ambulatory, or direct patient care units in which they work. Shared decision-making among clinical nurses and nurse leaders promotes active involvement from everyone. In...
• U.S. Navy nursing: Service beyond the shore
  USN nurses share their deployment experiences. Have you ever thought about a career as a U.S. Navy (USN) nurse? If so, you must consider that USN nurses hold two jobs—Naval officer and RN—and most are assigned to an operational platform for either their primary job responsibility or as a collateral role. USN nurses deploy with...
• Diversity Research Scholars: A path to finding our voice
  Nurses of color and those from other marginalized groups face several barriers to pursuing career advancement, including racial discrimination, few role models, and lack of support. However, exposure and mentorship can serve as a mechanism to address the mismatch between patient and nursing workforce demographics