When Tiarra Barrera-Hammond was in her early 20s, she’d just arrived in California and struggled to make ends meet. As the mother of two little children, she’d been living with her partner in Las Vegas, but she’d had to leave with nothing. “I was just trying to get away,” she explains, looking back now. It was tough. “I had no […]
Ja’el, a catheterization laboratory RN at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo Contest! Ja’el will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate. Send us your best photos for a chance to be the next winner of the Nurse Photo Contest! OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES NO ENTRY FEE […]
Nurses often save lives. Police officers often save lives. So it’s maybe no wonder that Mitch Heaney, who works in the blighted community of Highland Park (an enclave in Detroit), turned out to be a hero. After all, he’s a police officer studying to be a nurse. Heaney and his partner responded to an emergency call about […]
There was a time when legal barriers kept men from working as nurses and “nursing schools often refused to admit men.” It took a Supreme Court ruling in 1982 to change that, the report Men in Nursing Occupations recounted. These days it’s hard to imagine that it was ever so. Male Registered Nurses now constitute “a […]
Krystal Swift, a registered nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo Contest. Krystal will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate. Send us your best photos for a chance to be the next winner of the Nurse Photo Contest! OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES NO ENTRY FEE […]
NursingJobs.us decided to drop some bars to celebrate Nurses Week, please share with any nurses you know! Random Acts of Pizza for nurses coming up! This week, NursingJobs.us will once again be sending free pizza to nurses to celebrate National Nurses Week! For a chance to win a free pizza lunch or dinner for you […]
Brittney Taylor, a registered nurse working in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo Contest. Brittney will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate. Send us your best photos for a chance to be the next winner of the Nurse Photo Contest! […]
Congratulations to Eddie Johnson, the latest winner of the ongoing Nurse Photo Contest! Eddie writes: My name is Eddie Johnson. I’m 29 and an ER nurse in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida at Broward Health Medical Center. We have a very high paced, high acuity, short staffed, stressful job. It would be impossible to be successful or stay […]
The week of May 6 -12 has been “National Nurses Week” for over twenty years now, and this year too it will be a unique occasion to celebrate the role nurses play in delivering the highest level of quality care to their patients. To kick off the week, we’d like to highlight just a handful […]
That’s what Alexandra Robbins wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post last week (“Nurses make fun of their dying patients. That’s okay.“): “Humor has a place in hospitals, even if it’s dark, even if it’s derogatory — as long as it isn’t cruel.” Do you agree? And if you agree, how do you […]
