O*NET is a free, government-sponsored database with answers to any number of questions you might have about jobs and professions — useful, but not very exciting. But here’s something interesting: they also know what the most stressful nursing jobs are! Or… do they? Here’s their take. They’ve listed all occupations by stress tolerance, which they […]
Are you working through the holidays this year? Laboring through Christmas or New Year’s Eve? Braving the cold to take on shifts on the days in between, while people outside healthcare are enjoying a comfy few days off? Hey, we’re nurses — someone’s gotta do it! As nurse blogger Deb Aston once put it: “We reschedule […]
When Sister Aileen Trainor retired from her job at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon, she had worked in that very same place as a nurse in various roles for an astounding fifty-one years. Having started at St. Joseph Medical Center in nearby Bellingham in 1966 before joining Sacred Heart in 1971 — […]
Stop the violence against nurses! In our deep-dive blog post we tried to answer all the questions: What is driving this epidemic of workplace violence against healthcare workers? How did it get this bad? What have employers done — and why is it not helping? How have nurses tried to take the lead instead, and […]
That sinking feeling. “Not again.” Parents know it all too well, nowadays, when yet another school shooting hits the news. But now nurses increasingly do as well. Last week, 30-year-old Nestor Hernandez, who was already on parole for an eight-year aggravated robbery sentence, opened fire in the maternity ward of Methodist Dallas Medical Center in […]
Let’s start with a quick recap! Here’s an example we used before. At NurseRecruiter.com we have pricing plans for teams of all sizes. Let’s say you are paying to post up to 5 jobs, with up to 20 candidates included. Now let’s say you are posting your jobs… but you’re not actually getting 20 responses. […]
We’ve told you about the best ways to post your jobs manually, but what if you have a lot of jobs to post, or you regularly have new ones? Nobody likes filling out forms, and that’s why you can use job feeds and imports instead. We can periodically retrieve and automatically import your jobs from […]
Here’s how we laid out the bottom line when we told you how to increase your candidate acquisitions now: the clearer your job posts are, and the more complete the info is you provide, the more likely it is candidates will reply. And that’s not all: the better your match rate is, the more you […]
Are you getting enough bang for your buck? And by bang, of course, we mean candidates for your jobs! We think you could be reaching more of the nurses you need, right now, if you make just a few changes to how you use NurseRecruiter. It’s worth it! If your job posts reach more nurses, […]
15,000 nurses are on strike for the third day running in Minnesota, and it’s not just about money. For five months, contract negotiations covering nurses in over a dozen hospital systems in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and Duluth went nowhere, so the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) decided to go on strike. It’s not just any […]
