Two years after its groundbreaking debut, the Emergency Nurses Association’s (ENA) Emergency Nurse Residency Program (ENRP) has impacted 70 emergency departments nationwide.
The program now reaches new heights with enhancements designed to empower further and support emergency department (ED) nurses. The ENRP remains steadfast in its mission: providing critical education and resources for academic nurses and those transitioning from non-emergency settings to sharpen their clinical judgment, decision-making, and sociocultural adaptation to the fast-paced ED environment.
Beginning in fall 2026, Appalachian State University will welcome its first cohort of students to a hybrid Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree program, designed to educate family practice nurse practitioners and respond to health care provider shortages, especially in rural areas.
The DNP program, which received approval from the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors on Nov. 14, is the university’s first doctoral degree program in the field of health sciences.
Today’s healthcare organizations are coping with a growing shortage of nurses and crushing workloads exacerbated by an aging population.
A nurse is no longer responsible for a single patient in the ICU. An ICU nurse today may be caring for three to four patients at a time while training new staff and performing other administrative tasks like clinical data abstraction.
Without strategy change is merely substitution not evolution.
Workplace wellbeing is essential for organizational success. Yet, most organizations fall short, with extremely low wellbeing scores—and healthcare organizations are seeing the consequences through their struggles to retain nurses that want much work conditions.
The number of men in the U.S. with the job of registered nurse has nearly tripled since the early 2000s. Many come to the field after working in the military or in jobs, such as paramedics or firefighters, that exposed them to the work of nurses. "What I hear a lot from female students is, 'I've always wanted to be a nurse, I like helping people,' where the men tend to look more at job security and job stability," says Jason Mott, president of the American Association for Men in Nursing.