Nurse Practitioners, do you have the best job in America? Shout out to all our Nurse Practitioners out there! Did you see this, and do you agree? Is #NursePractitionerLife the best possible life? Every year, U.S. News & World Report releases new rankings of the Best Jobs in America, and this year N...
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This post is not about Gaza (but it is about you) Last month, labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr was given the Sebastian Brun Compassionate Care Award by her employer, NYU Langone Health. It is bestowed every year to “a nurse who exemplifies what it means to provide compassionate care to patients a...
Read more →This is where nurse wages are highest — and where your RN salary is worth the most! New data about nurse wages just dropped last month, and we’re going to be real with you: we know a lot about nurse salaries in different states, but we weren’t prepared for how extreme the differences have become! On...
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When nurses strike — again! What can you expect when you go on strike? Or take a strike nursing job? It’s the largest health care strike in U.S. history! Now that 75 thousand healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike at hospitals and clinics across California, Colorado, Oregon and Washin...
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Nurses sound off about the states which still refuse to join the NLC — but there's good news from Pennsylvania! “Imagine the challenge of driving across state lines if you were required to obtain a [driving] license from every state in which you were going to drive.” It wouldn’t make any sense, righ...
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More states have joined the NLC — now it’s time for the big holdouts to get on board! The train keeps on rolling: month after month, year after year, more and more states are joining the Nurse Licensure Compact! Progress seems unstoppable. An impressive roster of NLC laws has been enacted and implem...
Read more →You could qualify for many more jobs! And it takes just five minutes. The best and easiest way to find your next nursing job — even before you need it! — is to register on NurseRecruiter.com. But even if you have already registered, there’s an easy way to find better nursing jobs, more quickly! Upda...
Read more →This Nurses Week, just pick a number! Many companies have turned Nurses Week into Hospital Week or, worse, barely celebrate your work at all. You’ll be lucky if you get a mug with their corporate logo — and they’ll ask you to help raise the funds for it first. But that’s not us! For the third year r...
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When nurses strike! What can you expect when going on strike… or working as a strike nurse? Coming to your hospital soon? More strikes will follow What can you expect when you go on strike? What can you expect from working as a strike nurse? Unless you’ve been taking the strictest of mental health b...
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They say these are the most stressful jobs in nursing. But what are the least stressful nursing jobs? 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: th...
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How can we stop the violence? 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 nur...
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Stop the violence against nurses! 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...
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