Nursing Career Information

Nursing Scholarships/Opportunities
Nursing Career Descriptions
Job Sites
Licensing, Certification, and Grad School
Nurse Practitioners

NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS/OPPORTUNITIES

National Student Nurses' Association: Scholarship Resources

DiscoverNursing.com: Nursing Scholarship Search
 

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NURSING CAREER DESCRIPTIONS

Nursing - What can I do with this major?
Excellent overview of career options related to your nursing major. NOTES: This is an Acrobat Reader file. If you need the Acrobat Reader plug-in, click here. ALSO, the file may be fuzzy on-screen. A printed copy will look much better.

Berkeley Career Exploration Links
Descriptions of possible careers and graduate school programs.

Explore Health Careers: Nursing
Provides a profession overview and details regarding the various degree options

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JOB LISTINGS
 

CampusRN.com
Search jobs (of which there are many); send a question to "Ask the Nurse"; read articles.

CareerNURSE
The link above connects to a newsletter/job bulletin with employment opportunities for nursing students.

Continental Nurses
This site features online job application and links to nursing associations specializing in travel nursing, permanent placement, and local nurse staffing for health care facilities.

AccessNurses.com
Source for travel nursing jobs, permanent nursing jobs, per diem nursing jobs and related nursing employment information.

Advance for Healthcare Careers: Nursing
Search for jobs across the nursing profession

NurseDegreeHunter - Nursing Jobs
Post your nursing resume and search for nursing jobs.

Nursing Jobs at NurseUniverse.com
Nursing jobs, free e-mail, message boards and chat rooms. Employers looking for nurses - or post your resume.

Nurses123.com
Source for nursing jobs across USA, research healthcare facilities, career related information and travel nursing.

Nursing-Jobs.US
Source for Nursing jobs throughout the US.

MedHunters.com
Healthcare jobs, articles on self-assessment, career strategy and healthcare professionals.

Monster.com
The more general database of  jobs, including nursing jobs.

HospitalWeb
State-by-state links to most of the hospitals that have Web sites. Though you will have to search at each hospital site for the job listings, this is a potential gold-mine of jobs not advertised anywhere else.

CareerBuilder
Classified ads from approximately 90 major U.S. newspapers.

NursingJobsHelp.com
Job listings and resources for a Nursing job.

Yahoo
A Yahoo page that links to over 4000 U.S. and 1400 international newspapers, most of which list their classified ads online.

NationJob Online Jobs Database
Lists nursing jobs openings, many in the Midwest.

HealthWeb - Finding a Job
Links to a number of health care job sites on the Web.

RN.com

WSU Career Services

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LICENSING, CERTIFICATION & GRAD SCHOOL
Although licensing allows one to practice nursing, certification is reserved for professional achievement in defined functional and clinical areas of nursing.

Guide to licensing by state
Offers advice and addresses, phone numbers, and valuable information to obtain a license from any state.

American Nursing Association's Constituent Member Associations Index
A listing of state associations of nursing for all states, commonwealths, and territories can be found here. Electronic links to these organizations are updated as they become available.

Masters in Nursing
Guide to Accredited Schools offering a Masters Degree in Nursing

National Council of State Boards of Nursing
Contains NCLEX examination information and an interactive NCLEX candidate diagnostic profile. It also includes position papers by the National Council, state nurse practice acts and nursing regulations, and resources for health care consumers.

Continuing Education Requirements by State
Each state's requirements for Continuing Education (CE) credits.

HealthWeb
Information about licensing, certification and relicensure.

AllNursingSchools.com
An excellent way to search for nursing programs by degree and location.
NOTE: Be sure to UNCHECK the "Show Featured Schools Only" option.

Graduate school of nursing rankings
From U.S. News & World Report.

Nursing school in-depth descriptions
Provides nursing schools or departments, on a voluntary basis, the opportunity to communicate details about their programs to prospective students.

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NURSE PRACTITIONERS
 

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Job listings (must be a member); publications and research; conferences; Continuing Education.

Nurse Practitioner Central
Provides CE listings, NP programs, and classes on how to make your practice more efficient and more successful. We offer access to resources including legislative contacts, Medicare information, press releases, and book & product reviews.

American College of Nurse Practitioners
A national non-profit membership organization headquartered in Washington, DC, the ACNP is focused on advocacy and keeping NPs current on legislative, regulatory and clinical practice issues that effect NPs in the rapidly changing health care arena. The College is the only membership directed organization for NPs - meaning the ACNP sets its annual agenda and policies based on the consensus of its members.

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