Choosing a Career as a Nurse-Midwife

Choosing a Career as a Nurse-Midwife
Author: Jennifer Fields
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2000-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780823932931

Introduces careers in the field of midwifery, and offers information on the training and work of nurse-midwives.

Becoming a Midwife

Becoming a Midwife
Author: Rosemary Mander
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2014-05-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1135107602

What is the reality of being a midwife in the twenty-first century? What is it like to help and support women throughout pregnancy and childbirth and into motherhood? What roles can midwives play in society? This new edition of the popular text, Becoming a Midwife, explores what it is to be a midwife, looking at the factors that make midwifery such a special profession, as well as some of the challenges. The fully updated chapters cover a variety of settings and several different stages in a woman’s pregnancy, including stories from midwives working in hospitals and in the community, as managers, supervisors and educators, and as men, women, mothers and birth activists. All chapters are narrated by contributors who introduce their own theme, recount a vignette that throws light on their understandings of midwifery and reasons for becoming (or not becoming) a midwife and any subsequent career moves. Backed up by commentaries and drawing together these insights, the editors show what it means to be a midwife today. Suitable for those contemplating a career in midwifery and providing an opportunity for reflection for more experienced midwives, this thought-provoking book is an invaluable contribution to midwifery.

Nurses, Jobs and Money

Nurses, Jobs and Money
Author: Carmen Kosicek
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2012
Genre: Nurses
ISBN: 9780985755218

'Best Book Award of 2014' by Amazon Editors'. 'Nurses, Jobs and Money -- A Guide to Advancing Your Nursing Career and Salary' offers a sobering portrait of the nursing industry-and what nurses can do to advance their nursing career and salary in today's environment. Filled with proven techniques and real-life case studies, this book shows those in nursing exactly how to plan their career for optimal income and success. Written by a veteran nurse and healthcare professional who has single-handedly helped hundreds of nurses expand their careers, this book offers an honest look at the challenges facing nurses today, as well as refreshing solutions for attaining your next career goal. Whether you are a student nurse or a seasoned healthcare professional, you can use these tips, detailed scenarios and step-by-step guides on how to catapult your career to lucrative opportunities in the nursing profession. This quick read takes you outside the traditional realms of nursing and opens your mind to employment paths not taught in schools. No matter what position you choose to pursue after reading this book, you will be positioned to win!

Birth Settings in America

Birth Settings in America
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309669820

The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Choosing a College Major

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Choosing a College Major
Author: Randall S. Hansen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2007-10-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1440626391

How to figure out what you want out of college—and life. Choosing a college major is the biggest decision of one’s college experience, and there are many factors to consider. Here, you will discover which majors will give the best chances of finding employment, which majors are most likely to lead to the highest-paying jobs, what major best suits each personality, and what skills and background you need to realize your goals.

New Walk

New Walk
Author: Ellie Durant
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781780664705

A moving debut novel about midwifery, marijuana and abortion.

The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States

The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States
Author: Peter Buerhaus
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0763756849

The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends and Implications provides a timely, comprehensive, and integrated body of data supported by rich discussion of the forces shaping the nursing workforce in the US. Using plain, jargon free language, the book identifies and describes the key changes in the current nursing workforce and provide insights about what is likely to develop in the future. The Future of the Nursing Workforce offers an in-depth discussion of specific policy options to help employers, educators, and policymakers design and implement actions aimed at strengthening the current and future RN workforce. The only book of its kind, this renowned author team presents extensive data, exhibits and tables on the nurse labor market, how the composition of the workforce is evolving, changes occurring in the work environment where nurses practice their profession, and on the publics opinion of the nursing profession.

The Future of Nursing

The Future of Nursing
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309208955

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.