Nurses just play cards, they said. Nurses will speak up when insulted, they found out. We’ll send you a free deck this Nurses Day to help make the point! “I understand making sure that we have rest breaks and things like that. But … I would submit to you that those nurses probably do get breaks! The...
Read more →Nurses are NOT Superheroes… To celebrate Nurses Week we made this video to say nurses are… NOT superheroes. That’s right. We know the line: you’ll see it in all the cringy marketing stuff this Nurses Week. But it’s trite when nursing is real, and nurses deserve something better! If you like it, plea...
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Nurse video contest: Become the next face of NurseRecruiter and win $1,000! Did you hear about our nurse photo contests? Well, we are upping our game and now announce our very first video contest! We are looking for a nurse to become the face of NurseRecruiter, and you can win no less than $1,000 if...
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From sea to shining sea, will nurses get the eNLC? This month, good news from Indiana and Alabama! The Nurse Licensure Compact has been making life for nurses easier since it was first launched in 1999, saving nurses who want to take up a job in another state the hassle of going through the process...
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These nurses won $250 in our photo contest. Will you be next? Last month, we asked you for your help after our designer sent us a new NurseRecruiter ad that was almost perfect, but was missing something very important: a photo of a real nurse… Fortunately, you came through and we received so many aw...
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The nurses who stood by Martin Luther King Jr. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman,” Martin Luther King Jr. told the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) at its 1966 convention. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers had...
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You agreed: short staffing is like drunk driving. So why did nurses who tried to do something about it in Massachusetts fail so badly? We came across a great metaphor about short staffing, finessed the wording, turned it into this image, and shared it on Facebook and Instagram. It was as if we’d ope...
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This nurse is officially the star of Christmas Eve! It’s Christmas Eve, and families around the country are coming together to celebrate the holidays… except you’re a nurse, and you couldn’t get time off. Problem? Not necessarily! “Nursing is a 24/7/365 job,” writes budding nurse blogger Deb Aston....
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At least four nurses won this week – and so did Stephanie! They saw the ferocious battles that engulfed Washington, DC. They witnessed the tense stand-offs over healthcare policy. And they decided that, as nurses, they had something to say and should just run themselves. We found at least nine nurse...
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At least one nurse is making a splash in these midterm elections. How many more are running? Up in Illinois, a Registered Nurse is making a splash in the midterm election campaign: 31-year-old challenger Lauren Underwood has a surprise 6-point polling lead in the state’s 14th Congressional district...
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Ten reasons for nurses to vote this November Have you voted already? Are you planning to vote? On this blog we’re not in the habit of telling you what to do. You’re smart, you know what is right for you – and we know you’re already dealing with enough people who feel they know what you ought to do....
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Your nurse blogs: The ultimate list of blogs by and for nurses in 2018! Tired of charting, but want to keep reading? Did we list your blog? Post our award on your site & link it back here! We believe we have created the definitive list of blogs by and for nurses. If it’s worth reading, it should be...
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