Looking for a challenging position that draws upon your nursing knowledge, skills and insights and has the potential for broad impact? A career that applies your education, training and experience as a nurse to legal issues may be just what you’re looking for as a way to contribute. The career opportunities in health law are many and varied.

Simulation has always been a part of nursing education. For many years, there have been specific task trainer simulators for such skills as urinary catheterization, central line dressing change, intravenous catheter insertion, blood pressure measurement, nasogastric tube insertion, tracheostomy care, and many more. Male, female, pediatric, and geriatric full-body manikins also provide numerous opportunities to practice clinical skills. However, times are changing!

Lt Col Susan (Turbiville) Bassett, chief nurse mentor at Kandahar Regional Military Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan gives a clear picture of the antiquated state of nursing seen in this struggling third world nation. Since joining the Air Force in 1991,  Bassett has been stationed throughout the U.S. and overseas; however nothing ever compared, she says, with her current experiences while forward deployed in Afghanistan.

The most important part of a nurse’s education is the clinical work, which allows them to put their classroom knowledge into practice in real medical settings.  After all, when we end up in the hospital, we don’t want to be a nurse’s first patient! One nursing college is taking clinical experience one-step further, by offering its students the opportunity to provide healthcare in developing parts of the world through its co-curricular learning program.