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New way to pay for school?

As anyone in school knows, there are different ways to pay for school. You can qualify for grants or scholarships in order to avoid paying for school yourself. You can pay for school upfront, or you can take out student loans either via your parents or under yourself. For those who take out student loans, you're all too familiar with interest rates and how what you toke out can continue to grow in size over time. And this can leave you with debt for years to come, I know because I myself am at over $100,000 close to the end of my graduate studies due to compounding interest. In fact, student loans account for more U.S. debt than credit cards and auto loans since 2010 (Chiwaya, 2019). Yet there may be a new way to pay for school. Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Chris Coons (D-DE), introduced a new bipartisan bill to set consumer protections for income-sharing agreements, in the hopes that this will be another option for higher-ed consumers (Kr...
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Hangover — The Truth About Nursing Blog

Hangover — The Truth About Nursing Blog : Nurse understaffing remains widespread in U.S. hospitals, The Guardian reports A good February 2019 article paints a distressing picture of the state of U.S. nurse staffing, emphasizing the dangerous effects on patients and nurses themselves. The piece relies on nurses and a union representative who calls for minimum nurse staffing ratios for all units, which California is still the only U.S. state to require. Visit link for more information: https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2019/02/hangover/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=aa3aa86a-aec6-44c8-865c-477e2c22f068
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Identifying the problem: pain management

(Previously published) Identifying the problem: pain management Pain can be debilitating if not managed correctly, and yet that is what when nurses fail to lead and work with the interdisciplinary team to manage pain. Lack of proper pain control affects the patient as well as the staff, and can cost the facility money for continuous readmission. For this reason, nurses must understand pain and pain management, and know how to work with other disciplines to achieve this goal. Knowledge of pain and pain management In biology we learned that pain receptors, or nociceptors, are sensory receptors within the nervous system that detects injury to the body (Starr, Evers, & Starr, 2009). Damage can occur from different sources, but the body’s response to the injury is the same, inflammation. If injury occurs for a short duration, because the damaging agent is removed, the inflammatory response is acute and intense (Tortora, Funke, & Case, 2010). If the injury is continuous, be...
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Keeping Current

As a professional it is vital to maintain current evidence based practices as well as gain additional knowledge to be able to uphold a proficient practice and be a competitive in the current workforce. What ways can you keep up to date without causing a large financial burden? In some states nurses have to complete a certain number of continue educations to be able to renew their license. Even in states where it isn’t mandatory to complete CE’s it is of personal and professional benefit to learn changes in patient care and medical practices (Witt; Aug 2011). Some sites provide a yearly fee for unlimited CE’s, while some nursing associations and colleges provide free CE’s. Another way to keep up to date is by subscribing to nursing journals (Smith; Jan 1996). Some journal subscriptions may be pricey depending on the specialty, but non-specialty journals like Nursing Made Incredibly Easy and the American Journal of Nursing offer current issues and new practices at an affordable price....
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