Nurses in Minnesota are on Day 3 of a massive strike — a sign of things to come? 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...
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Travel nurses were shocked by stories of a sudden drop in demand. Should you be worried? Imagine the shock: you’re half way down your drive from Florida to Wyoming for a travel nursing job, and you hear your contract has been canceled. No warning, no caveats: you simply thought you had a job, and th...
Read more →Gifts and donations: this Nurses Week, we asked you! Just like last year, we sent gifts to nurses across the country this Nurses Week. We sent out a bunch of different t-shirts, pretty flower badge reels, hip packs to keep your nursing supplies in, gift boxes of giant body cell plushies, designation...
Read more →These nurses are pulling no punches The New York Times published a video editorial which spells out the truth about what’s going wrong — terribly wrong — in nursing. And it pulls no punches! We Know the Real Cause of the Crisis in Our Hospitals. It’s Greed. Yes, “America’s nurses are overworked, bur...
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Are nurse employers getting it wrong? “They’re hiring new nurses for big $$, but their experienced nurses who run the units, save their asses in staffing gaps, and keep patients alive are leaving.” It’s a blunt way to put it, but Twitter user SarahToninFNP is not wrong. https://twitter.com/MomRobe/s...
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As nurse shortages soar, employers reach for the sign-on bonuses The job of a nurse doesn’t follow the schedule of other professionals. People don’t stop getting sick just because it’s summer — if anything the opposite, with Covid-19 numbers rising again. No long summer break for us! That sucks — bu...
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Let us send your favorite nurse a special Nurses Week gift! What’s better than a thoughtful Nurses Week gift? A thoughtful Nurses Week from someone who knows you well! That’s why this year, we want to try out something different. Every day we’re going to give out different nurse gifts… to nurses of...
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Would you take one of these COVID vaccination jobs? Over 1 in 3 Americans has received at least one shot, but now things get harder It’s a powerful symbol. Every day now, for weeks already, if you scroll down the New York Times homepage, you see the same thing. It’s a very plain graphic, with just t...
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Nurses Navigate Complexity in a Changing Healthcare Environment By Dr. Karen M. Scolforo, Executive Director of Program Development at New England College The Corona Virus 19 has presented unprecedented challenges to hospital systems across the globe, placing demands on medical professionals to addr...
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Can nurses work from home? Yes! These are your options It’s one of the most frequently asked questions we get in comments to our posts and advertisements. Do you have work-from-home nursing jobs? Does your site list telenursing positions for RNs, or any kind of telecommute jobs? Any remote nursing j...
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Everybody is competing for travel nurses right now — salaries are high, but we need to talk about mental health Coronavirus is not over. The crisis response jobs are still there, and they pay well! We can help you find those nursing jobs. But we have to be honest about the costs too. We need urgent...
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What’s the hold up? The PPE shortage that never went away It’s the issue that just doesn’t seem to go away. Even now, from coast to coast, too many nurses have to improvise with unsafe equipment. Reusing masks and face shields. Storing N95s in paper bags. Even where there is now enough PPE, worries...
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