nursing continuing education

NursingCrib on Coursepark: We Take Care of Each Other

April 12, 2012 By Trisha RN Leave a Comment

ANNOUNCING PARTNERSHIP WITH NURSINGCRIB.COM!

In this age of virtual education and interaction, the benefits of being a member of an online, international learning community are numerous.

NursingCrib has partnered with CoursePark Learning Networks and the Nurses Network to provide not only continuing education for nurses, but also a forum for community knowledge exchange.

The Nurses Network represents a group of highly qualified nurses from around the globe who came together to develop clinically relevant Nursing CE.

CoursePark is a web-based learning platform that has dedicated itself to the user, capturing both formal and informal learning. It is easily adopted, implemented, accessible anywhere/anytime, and provides a spectacular training mechanism for both new and veteran nurses.

Through our combined efforts, every member will have the opportunity to build a centralized Lifelong Learning Profile, complete an unlimited amount of Nursing CEUs (each come with a certificate of completion), and a Facebook-style Board on which nurses around the world can post questions and links, express opinions, interact on a personal level, and network! [Read more...]

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Professional Growth and Development: Posters, Part 2

April 12, 2012 By Rita RN Leave a Comment

In my last column about posters, I left off with what I considered a near-fatal error in my first-ever attempt: too much text. The color scheme was fine, fonts were appropriate, proportions were all according to the conference requirements. However, the lack of images coupled with an over-abundance of text made for a poster that was much too busy and too time-consuming to capture anyone’s interest. It truly was a case of TMI – too much information. I resolved to do better with my next one, if there ever was one.

As I mentioned last time, I was writing from the 2012 Horizons AACN Regional Critical Care Conference in Springfield, MA, for which I am on the planning committee. [Read more...]

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Success and Learning

March 6, 2012 By Jessica RN Leave a Comment

Want to be successful? Yes, that is a rhetorical question. I can’t think of anyone that will say honestly, “I want to be unsuccessful, defined by repeated failure.”

I follow many blogs, not all of them nursing-related. I follow cooking blogs, womanhood blogs, and financial blogs, among others. One of the financial blogs posted recently about “The Seven Attributes That Matter.” Apparently, the writer took several people he respected, whether alive or not, and wrote down attributes that made them worth looking up to, especially regarding their success(es) in life. He then condensed the list down to seven attributes that popped up most often in his profiles of these people.

Here is the list of attributes he found to be most common among his list of successful people:

1. Self-belief

2. Humility (to balance self-belief and self-reliance) [Read more...]

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Education vs. “Mad Skillz”

November 29, 2011 By Jessica RN Leave a Comment

It’s the age-old debate….experience over education, education over experience. Which one is better? When do they both become equally valuable or do they? Countless times, I’ve heard nurses say they’d rather have an experienced licensed practical nurse (LPN) care for them than a bachelor degree-holding nurse (BSN) with a year of experience or less under the belt. In some ways, I agree. So, if that’s the case, when does education become just as valuable as experience? Does it even matter?

It’s almost like we nurses look at one other through critical eyes, weighing each other in the balance before we decide to trust. Let’s face it…when you work closely with other people in a stressful environment, you want to be surrounded by people you can trust. We feel we have to conduct our own personal interview of sorts when we encounter a new co-worker to find out on what basis we will trust them. [Read more...]