If you have been a nurse for a while, or even if you are just starting out, you have probably heard someone mention travel nursing at some point or another. And you may have questions. The first question, inevitably, is: what is travel nursing? Basically, a travel nurse is a kind of temporary worker. You […]
Why You Should Always Be Looking for Your Next Nursing Job If you ask your fellow nurses and friends for advice on how to advance your career and maximize your salary, you’ll probably get a lot of people suggesting strategies such as networking, finding a mentor, attending professional events, developing good relationships with healthcare facility […]
Congratulations to Nadya, the latest winner of our ongoing nurse photo contest! Nadya submitted an awesome photo of “four of the wonderful nurses that work on the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Bayview in Baltimore, Maryland” that was taken during Nurses Week in May 2016. Nadya will receive a $100 Amazon gift card. […]
NursingJobs.us is now NurseRecruiter.com! Shortly after founding NursingJobs.us it grew to become one of the top nursing job boards on the internet and it was due to this that one of the oldest nurse job boards online, NurseRecruiter.com, approached our company about acquiring them. We were happy to take on one of the trusted brands […]
Rachel Oliver Smith is a Registered Nurse at Brenner Children’s Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. She gets along with her colleagues well. But there is a special reason why she has a particularly strong bond with some of them, and with the hospital which employs her. When Rachel was just four years old, she was diagnosed with T-cell […]
There are probably as many as 300,000 male Registered Nurses in the United States – although, as we found out in our last post on #MenInNursing, what the exact number is really depends on whom you ask. What we know for sure is that the number has been steadily rising over the years. Just two generations ago, […]
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 […]
