| You have completed nursing school and received | | | | advancement opportunities. A BS in nursing is |
| your certification. You got a job in scrub jackets | | | | essential for some jobs, such as case management |
| which permits you to use your new skills. Are you | | | | and supervisory positions. It also provides a |
| now supposed to start taking classes again? | | | | foundation for future graduate nursing studies. Some |
| Nowadays nurses are expected to take continuing | | | | nursing specialty programs available online include legal |
| education every year to re-qualify for their licenses, | | | | nurse consulting, for RN's who work for law firms or |
| no matter what their level. The number of hours you | | | | insurance companies. This program teaches nurses |
| must take varies from state to state. However, | | | | how to analyze and review medical records, perform |
| taking continuing education classes has never been | | | | legal and medical research, interview expert |
| easier. Local hospitals often offer on-site classes at | | | | witnesses, and aid attorneys with trial information. |
| no charge. Local universities, community colleges, | | | | Another program is forensic nursing, which entails |
| trade schools and also online nursing schools offer | | | | using nursing skills in criminal investigation. |
| classes all year long. If you elect this option, be sure | | | | Nurses in this twelve-month program learn how to |
| that the school you choose is accredited by the | | | | identify the causes of injuries and death, to collect |
| organization which issues your license. Another way | | | | evidence and to help victims to follow up care. Life |
| to obtain the requisite continuing education, which is | | | | care planning is a specialty involved in helping patients |
| more time-consuming and expensive but also more | | | | with major disabilities or chronic medical conditions in |
| fun, is to attend medical conferences. Medical | | | | their homes. Case management nursing is a specialty |
| conferences frequently offer continuing education | | | | involving monitoring medical, financial, and social |
| programs for the duration of the conference and | | | | aspects of health care services for patients and their |
| since medical conferences are often held in great | | | | families. Case management nurses learn how to |
| vacation destinations such as Hawaii or Las Vegas, | | | | perform assessments, to conduct research, to |
| you can enjoy yourself after classes at a beach or | | | | analyze data, to manage patients' health care and |
| poolside. | | | | services, and where to buy scrubs. Opportunities for |
| The online continuing education option is perhaps the | | | | case management nursing lie in public health |
| most practical for most people in scrub pants. You | | | | departments, worker's compensation and other |
| can study anywhere that there is internet access, | | | | insurance carriers, long term care facilities, and social |
| any time, at your own convenience. Online bachelor | | | | and human services agencies. The wide variety of |
| of nursing programs enable RN's to complete the | | | | nursing specialties available online, besides their |
| education requirements needed to re-qualify for | | | | flexibility and convenience, makes this continuing |
| licensing, as well as to enhance their skills in order to | | | | education option particularly attractive. |
| provide better patient care, and to qualify for career | | | | |