This website is about nurse careers. Nursecareers.com is a comprehensive career development resource for nurses, nursing students, and related healthcare professionals.
This website helps visitors quickly identify and locate resources that are applicable and important to the development of their nursing career. We have collected, compiled, and cross-referenced a wide range of career development information into a comprehensive and easy-to-use career development resource.
Background
The founders of nursecareers.com have over twenty-five years of experience recruiting nurses in senior leadership and advanced clinical practice roles. We worked nationwide with healthcare organizations ranging from small Critical Access, Community, and Regional Hospitals to nationally recognized Academic Medical Centers and large Integrated Healthcare Systems.
We recruited talented and highly qualified nursing professionals, including but not limited to:
- Chief Nursing Executives,
- VP, Clinical Services,
- Director, Nursing Services,
- Directors, various units
- Managers, various units
- Nurse Practitioners,
- Clinical Nurse Specialists,
- Certified Nurse Midwives,
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists,
- Nurse Educators, and
- Nursing Informatics.
As we interviewed thousands of hiring managers and candidates over the years, a pattern of shared success attributes by our most accomplished candidates emerged. These characteristics enabled those candidates to accelerate their professional growth, advance their careers, and contribute to their profession. These were traits and practices that grew from a shared set of professional development activities that included:
- Pursuit of a Graduate-Level Education,
- Professional Nursing Association membership,
- Nursing Conference attendance and participation,
- Earning Certifications, and
- Promoting the profession of nursing.
Thus, the idea of building a comprehensive, integrated career development website for nurse professionals was born.
About Nurse Careers
This site, nursecareers.com, organizes resources around the characteristics we found in our best candidates and hiring managers, making them available to a larger audience of professionals. This website actualizes what we learned during our twenty-five years of recruiting experience.
Each section of this website provides resources to help you identify activities and other resources enabling you to develop an advanced nursing career. These sections include:
- Advanced Nurse Careers – Job descriptions, education and certification requirements, and other resources for more than a dozen advanced careers in nursing,
- Obtaining an Advanced Education – Essential for any advanced leadership and clinical practice nursing position. Includes 18 tools to search more than 7,400 degrees from over 710 colleges and universities,
- Joining Nursing Associations – Professional development, peer networking, and advocacy with more than 1,800 associations,
- Attending Conferences – Network with peers and experts outside of your organization at more than 2,500 local, state, regional, and national Conferences,
- Earning Certifications – Update your specialized skills and expert knowledge,
- Becoming Licensed – Portability of licensing between states,
- Understanding Scope of Practice – Your potential for Practice Independence and Prescriptive Authority varies by state and is presented in color-coded maps and sortable lists,
- Interviewing – Candidates: Join the right organization – Employers: Hire the right candidate – Behavioral Interviewing; presented in nine downloadable guides,
- Compensation – Sortable wage and employment statistics by state and metropolitan area, and
- Observances – Professional Recognition and Health Awareness Calendars.
The ingredients necessary for your professional growth are here.