Georgia is on a mission to strengthen its pipeline of nurses. New nursing programs and initiatives are springing up around the state, and that’s good news for the health and welfare of Georgians. Greater demand is driving the change. More nurses are needed for Georgia’s growing and aging population, yet ...
Woven within our communities are strong, nurturing and selfless people. We call them nurses. They are the trusted professionals we turn to when we’re sick and hurting. But nurses don’t just practice at the bedside. They bring their caring, thinking, teaching, problem-solving, get-it-done qualities into our families, schools, churches, businesses, ...
The ajcjobs Top Atlanta Workplaces special section, which features only employee-nominated companies, shows which employers are getting it right and what distinguishes them from others – offering you a unique opportunity to place your advertising alongside the metro's best companies. The ajcjobs Top Atlanta Workplaces 2013 section will be delivered ...
If you’ve been job searching recently, you may already suspect what I’m about to tell you: A lot of what passes for job search these days is really just a waste of time.Careful — I’m not saying job search itself is a waste of time. There are jobs out there, ...
These past few years have been tough on workers, a fact that becomes abundantly clear when you read a pile of random résumés — as recruiters and employers often do.Where they used to encounter nearly identical documents, with each job leading to another in an upward progression, employers are now ...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution honored 10 of Georgia's best nurses at the seventh annual ajc jobs Nursing Excellence Awards event on May 2 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The winners are (front row from left) Amy Tipton, Alane Levy, Cindy Bales, Mackenzie Lovvorn, Penny Ndungu, (back row from left) Jennifer ...
Take a look around the halls of today’s hospitals and other health care facilities and you’ll find fresh faces. Young people are choosing the nursing profession in record numbers. Between 2002 and 2009, there was a 62 percent increase in the number of nurses ages 23 to 26 entering the ...
Amy Tipton firmly believes that God puts us where we need to be when we need to be there. In Tipton’s case, her nursing skills will be there, too. “You never know when you’ll have to step up and do what you’re trained to do,” said Tipton, RN, BSN, CCRN, ...
A visit to a health clinic in 2000 put Betsy Polstra on the path to working with patients who might not otherwise have seen a health care professional. The Johns Creek resident had long been involved with medical mission work abroad, but the day Polstra went to a clinic for ...
Penninah “Penny” Ndungu (pronounced Puh-nee-nah Dunn-goo) works with a diverse patient population in her role as assistant nurse manager on the orthopedics/neurology telemetry floor at WellStar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta. “We like to say that if you can work on this floor, you can work anywhere, because we see everything,” ...
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