A Master of Science degree in nursing (MSN) trains nurses in advanced nursing skills. With this degree, a nurse can choose to specialize in a variety of nursing areas. However, most choose to deliver routine healthcare (working in partnership with doctors). Much of the care delivered by advanced practice...

They wanted to quit. They couldn’t. They tried, dear God, they tried so hard to quit, but the withdrawal symptoms broke them, like a visit to hell. They needed therapy, professional help that might have saved them. But they didn’t find it. So they self-medicated, they used drugs to...

Nursing was your dream. As a child, you couldn’t imagine a nobler life of service to others. When you had your appendix out at age 11 that time, the nurses were like mothers, only better. They took away pain and left love in its place. And that was when you decided that nursing was all you...

A new era in medicine is rapidly overtaking us all. And perhaps it is really an ancient era, wonderfully reborn, just when we need it most. Nursing at the highest level has overtaken fields of care once absolutely dominated by M.D.’s. The Master’s degree in Nursing, the MSN, has brought...