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 […]
National Public Radio conducted an impressively in-depth, four-part report about the working conditions and health risks of nurses, full of worrying statistical data and heartbreaking personal stories. The short of it: “nursing employees suffer more debilitating back and other injuries than almost any other occupation — and they get those injuries mainly from doing […]
“Dream grounds for a dream hospital”: in this promo film from 1950 about a model Kaiser hospital, we see babies being slid through walls in “drawer-like bassinets”, suited husbands smoking endless cigarettes awaiting their wives’ childbirth, and hospital rooms with sliding doors that open up to a terrace with a swimming pool. Not to mention […]
Public opinion polling agency Gallup reported that 80% of Americans rate the honesty and ethics of nurses as high or very high. It’s not the first time the poll found such high appreciation for nurses either; we’ve mentioned it before. In fact, “Americans have been asked to rate the honesty and ethics of various professions annually […]
Over five years after the global financial crisis, jobs are still scarcer than they used to be in the United States – but not everywhere! In true American spirit, for example, thousands of people looking for jobs – or better-paying jobs – have been trekking north and west to “men camps” in rugged states […]
Back by Popular Demand Our Nursing Jobs Photo Contest! Send us a photo at contest@nurserecruiter.com for a chance to win $100! Calling All Nurses! Recently we at NursingJobs.us have been looking through stock photography to use for ours campaigns/ads however all we’ve continued to come across is the fake-looking models posing in halloween nurse costumes. Therefore we’ve brought back […]
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and what better to celebrate than with some sweet treats. We dug up this delicious ECG cookie recipe from Erica’s Sweet Tooth. The recipe consists of chocolate roll-out cookies with some royal icing with some ECG patterns. Chocolate Roll-Out Cookies 3 cups all purpose flour 3/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp […]
A heroic nurse stepped in to save an elderly patient from a Doctor that was about to cut into the patients vein with a scalpel in order to take a blood sample. Doctor Vincent Osunkwo received the job of senior house officer at Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise after he was the only one to apply for the position […]
