“I now work in the same jail where I once sat in a booking cell”: the inspiring story of a successful correctional nurse It’s true, correctional nursing suffers from something of an unfair stigma. But we talked with a corrections nurse who made a passionate case for the importance of the work — and...
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They say nursing is a calling. But when your mom is a nurse and you’re following in her footsteps, you don’t need to be told. You’ve seen it in action — from back when you were just a little kid! Some nurses always knew what they wanted to be. Some are military veterans. Some doggedly climbed their...
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She’s funny and brave, of course we picked her! We won't get tired of repeating this: in our nurse photo contest, every photo or set of photos we publish anywhere is a winner! Send in a photo of yourself in your work scrubs or with your colleagues, and add something about yourself. That’s it, that’s...
Read more →The five things we learned from you during Nurses Week No bubble wrap from us for Nurses Week! (Cause, yeah, that happened). Instead, we offered you a choice of gift cards that are actually useful… and picked 29 lucky winners! We weren’t the only ones handing out gifts, though. This is going to soun...
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Your time to shine: taking pride in our nurse photo contest winners! You work in veteran care or women’s health, in hospice or neuro. You’re weathering the stress of dealing with a Code Blue in the ICU, or traveling around the country administering vaccines. You’re an RN, LPN, or NP… and you’re prou...
Read more →Working for the devil We’re always going on about how travel nursing is great because it gets you into all kinds of different work settings. Good for your professional development, enhances your skills, yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill! But what if it actually gets you a proper Hollywood-style...
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What can we learn from Sister Aileen Trainor? 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...
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Eddie Johnson wins our photo contest again, and he has a message for all of us! One of the things we consider most valuable about this blog is that it allows us to share the important and inspiring stories nurses have to tell. Stories that are not heard often enough! Whether it’s accounts of heartbr...
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Thank you for celebrating Nurses Week with us! How did we do? Did you hear about the Nurses Week rock? Apparently, nurses at a hospital in California we won’t name here were surprised with a very ‘special’ Nurses Week gift this year: a rock. Well, more of a pebble actually. Seriously. It came with a...
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She helped protect children in emergencies around the world. Now she is our newest NurseRecruiter.com Scholarship winner! We are so happy today! It feels good to be able to help a nursing student on her way to fulfil her dream — and not just any nursing student! Because this is a future nurse with a...
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Nurses 1 — humorless bores 0. Meet our first group photo prize winners! Who still has a sense of humor, even when literally everything seems to go sideways? Nurses do! Proof positive: the entry we received a couple of weeks ago in our ongoing nurse photo contest. (All we had to change about it was t...
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We picked another photo contest winner, will you be next? With our ongoing nurse photo contest, we’re going to keep on going, and we will keep on picking new $100 winners! You can read everything about our contest, why we are doing it, and what you can expect, right here: Nurses deserve to be seen....
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