Nurses work in a sometimes stressful and physically demanding profession that requires lifting, bending and reaching. This is why nurse safety is so important. In an American Nurses Association health risk survey, about 42 percent of nurses said that their jobs involved heavy lifting and repositioning of patients. That leads to the most significant cause of injuries to nurses: back issues. The federal Occupational Safety [...]
The number of nursing jobs across the country will increase by more than 400,000 by 2026. Nowhere is that growth expected to be bigger than in Texas. The Lone Star State already employees more nurses than any other state, except for California. There were 212,230 nurses working in Texas as of May 2017, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. [...]
When Faith Wilson earned her associate’s degree in nursing at 23 years old, her goal was simply to finish the program. Now, nearly 20 years later, HBU’s nursing program has changed her perspective.
HBU's School of Nursing and Allied Health announces that it will host a site review for continuing accreditation of its baccalaureate nursing programs by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN).
