Light at the end of the tunnel? How a health emergency triggered mass lay-offs of healthcare workers It seems counterintuitive, and it’s really not how things should work: when a health emergency erupted in the United States, health workers started being furloughed and laid off en masse. How could t...
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We were not prepared for this. Not prepared to cry. Not prepared for an account as moving and revealing as this testimony by Stacey Phelps, a nurse from Alabama who volunteered to work in New York City to fight Covid-19. Earlier this month, when we asked you to send in your photos and stories “becau...
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In their own words: the nurses who shared their photos and stories in our Nurses Week contest! We can’t wait to let you know about the first winner of the nurse photo contest we launched this Nurses Week! But we want to do more than that here. We want to thank all the other nurses who stepped forwar...
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Support Our Scrubs: this year, Nurses Week calls for more than pizza Five years in a row, when Nurses Week arrived, we sent out pizza. Lots of it! Nurses around the country received free pizza deliveries from NurseRecruiter.com. But this year, everything is different. The Coronavirus crisis has torn...
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Your nurse blogs: The definitive list of nursing blogs in 2020! Whether you’re a nurse or a nursing student, you’ll want to read at least some of the nursing blogs in this newly updated list of Top Nurse Blogs! Did we list your blog? Post our award on your site & link it back here! We believe we hav...
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“This must end now”: Nurses mobilize to protest conditions at the border When we watch the news, when we see stories of people whose health and lives are in danger, when we read accounts of human suffering, does being a nurse make a difference? Do we bear a special responsibility? A responsibility t...
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Congresswoman opens up about childhood trauma: “It was a school nurse who saw the signs” “There but for the grace for God go I,” Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley started off when invited to contribute to a special Congressional hearing last week about Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Childhood Tra...
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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...
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“The insane difference a good nurse makes”: for the patient, it’s often the little things that count. Just ask Kate! We know it. Your colleagues know it. The doctors know it. You studied for years to be a nurse. You have an intricate grasp of treatments and symptoms. You know how to juggle key respo...
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All in a day’s work: The nurses who helped fight the floods When the Spencer Dam in Nebraska collapsed in the wake of the “Bomb Cyclone” that flooded swathes of the Midwest, an 11-foot wave gushed through the breach, swallowing farms and taking down entire buildings in its swirling currents. The tor...
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This nurse went well beyond the call of duty When Terry Slinde walked into Iowa Methodist Medical Center one Tuesday morning last month to meet the person who had donated a kidney to him, he didn’t know what to expect. All he knew was how grateful he was to the person who’d helped him live. Imagine...
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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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