September 2009 – Nurse Recruiter

Provide Emergency Care Abroad with Doctors Without Borders

Violence was escalating in the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, when Seattle-based operating nurse Louise Fang arrived in early 2007 to start her first of three assignments with Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Having recently retired from a US veterans’ hospital, Fang would now provide care at an MSF trauma center in the midst […]

Free Nursing CEUs

Many nurses speak disparagingly about free nursing CEUs as less than optimal training classes for new procedures or information pertinent to their practice as a nurse.  True, some of the free CEU classes offered by our employers seemingly have nothing to do with the type of nursing we practice, but in tight economic times, free […]

Jobs in Nursing

The many possibilities for jobs in nursing can be overwhelming to the new graduate as well as the veteran nurse.  I am constantly learning about nursing positions that I never knew existed.  A professor once said “imagine any industry, any business and I’ll bet you can find a way to work a nursing job into […]