Air Force Nurse Video From Google Highlighting Air Force Nurse Duty

Air Force Nurse

Disclaimer: This is clearly a commercial recruitment ad for the Air Force and military nurses. NurseSpot.com has not been compensated to run this video in any way. We are running it as part of an experiment with the new Google video service.

There is not much nursing-related content available to select from on Google video. While we are in no way trying to discourage interested applicants from joining any military service as a nurse, we just wish to make it clear that this is not objective news content.

We do think it provides a little insight into the lives of our professional Air Force and other military nurses. In this segment, 1st Lt. Cano explains his view of life as an Air Force nurse and the opportunities it offers.

Karate Nurse?

This video of a nurse demonstrating a bit of karate care is courtesy a new service from Google Video. Unfortunately, there is precious little in the way of caption information or context.

We can't tell if is she is talking about someone in her personal life or a patient – guesses anyone? It's clearly intended to be funny and not taken seriously. How funny it actually is lies with the viewer.

Do you have any amusing videos or stories to tell about your nursing career? Or nursing school days? As part of our new nursing podcast series we'd love to hear from you if you'd like to tell your story over the phone or share a video with our audience of nurses and nursing students. Just click on the contact us link to get in touch.

America is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to get worse as baby boomers age and the need for health care increases. Complicating the nursing shortage problem is the fact that nursing schools and universities across the country are having difficulty maintaining enrollment levels that remain insufficient to meet the projected demand for nursing care.

Based on a recent survey, it is common knowledge that there is a nursing shortage and this is viewed as a serious issue. The study revealed that 75% of Americans think that the nursing shortage is a very real and very important health care concern. The general view is that the nursing shortage will have a negative effect on health care services. The poll indicates that 81 percent of the population is acutely aware of the nursing shortage and fully 65 percent believe that the nursing shortage is nearing crisis levels.

An LPN to RN bridge online degree program is an educational program that a licensed practical nurse can take to earn a higher degree in nursing. This degree qualifies the student nurse to take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). The NCLEX is a required examination that all nursing graduates must take and pass to become a licensed registered nurse in the US.

Is the move from LPN to RN a feasible career direction for you to take? Yes. There is a growing scarcity of registered nurses. One that a World Health Report- 2003 (WHO) acknowledged: "The most critical issue facing health care systems is the shortage of people who make them work".

In the USA today, statistics show that there is a population on ratio of 773 nurses for around 100,000 patients (The Global Nursing Review Initiative-2005).

HOUSTON - Feb. 7, 2006 - Move over Donald Trump, there is a new business mogul in town and SHE is teaching nurses how to be more than just apprentices. She is teaching them how to become the CEOs of their careers and lives.

Inc.'s Top 10 Entrepreneur Vickie Milazzo, RN, MSN, JD has a growing legion of RNs turning to her to transform their traditional nursing skills into self-employment. "Vickie Milazzo crossed nursing with the law and created a new profession" as reported by The New York Times. She has trained more than 13,000 RNs to be Certified Legal Nurse Consultants.