After working in a state-of-the-art pediatric emergency department for thirteen years, my career took a different path…sort of. I had triplet daughters that were starting Kindergarten and with no extended family anywhere near our city, I felt that I needed a career that would allow me to be on their schedule. That’s when I began […]
In the last few years of my mother’s life, when she was suffering from myriad chronic conditions that had greatly decreased her mobility, my entire family – but especially my mother, the patient – was thankful for the convenience and reassurance of having a weekly visit from an Registered Nurse, Annie. After my father passed […]
Most people outside the medical field – and a good deal of those within it – are not sure exactly what a nurse anesthetist does; some may have never even heard of it, or think of them as “assistants” to anesthesiologists. Nurse anesthetists have a long and storied history spanning over 150 years, and today […]
Whether you are a newly-minted R.N. or a veteran nurse, it is well-known that there are currently more Registered Nurse jobs than there are qualified professionals to fill them. If you’re on the hunt for your first nursing job or a new position, opportunities abound. But it’s important to find the right job. How does […]
If you are a nurse who enjoys the challenge of working in new environments, meeting new people and gaining experience in different areas of nursing, you may be suited for Travel Nursing. Travel Nurses are, generally, assigned to positions in a location for a period of 13 weeks. Often, they are asked to stay on […]
Any nurse who has worked in an urgent care setting will tell you that it is invariably the most severely ill/injured patients who say, I wasn’t even sure I should come in for this, (and this could be anything from kidney stones to an MI to a deep puncture wound) and are the most apologetic […]
About five years ago, when she was in her early fifties, my friend Nancy made a decision that surprised her family and friends. She was going back to school. And she was going to become a nurse. “A nurse?” more than a few people responded. “Why would you want to go through all that schooling? […]
Nursing can be an extremely rewarding and enriching career path. It can also be exhausting and overwhelming. What if you could start fresh every thirteen weeks, gaining new and valuable experiences, meeting new people in new places, earning excellent pay and benefits? You can. By taking a few minutes to fill out the Rapid Apply […]
In a recent edition of the monthly newsletter I receive in the mail from my family’s HMO, a letter from a reader asked, “Do we even have school nurses anymore? And, what do they do?” School nursing has evolved from the temperature-taking, bandage-applying friendly face we remember from our childhoods, and not all for the […]
While travel nurses may love the freedom, flexibility, and pay of their job, it can still be at times a very stressful experience. You’re dealing with new work situations far from your family and friends and far from your gym. What’s a travel nurse to do to beat stress while on the job? Yoga is […]
