“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 rallied behind the organisation and its predec...
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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. “Just like police officers, EMTs, and firemen/women,...
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A long while ago, we asked you to tell us about your personal nursing superheroes: the people who motivated and inspired you, or set an example you have tried to live by. This Thanksgiving, we’d like to share the story that perhaps moved us most of all. Thank you, Heather Wilson! “As a child, I neve...
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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 nurses who ran for office in the midterm elections this week, an...
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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 and “is now better known and better liked than the incumbent”. Nobody knows how the election...
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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 listed on this page! There is something for everyone. Whether you want t...
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Do you ever worry whether you’re doing this whole nursing thing right, or whether you came to nursing the “proper” way? Here on our blog we love to share the stories that nurses tell us about their jobs, and how they found their way there. Not just because each story can be an example for others, bu...
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You might have heard already about Faye Lewis. The first job Faye did was serving fried chicken at KFC. She worked her way up to manager, even as she raised her son AJ and enrolled in college. Got a job as a Housekeeper at an Assisted Living Facility. Completed her CNA training. Went on to complete...
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Rachelle Roggiero is the latest winner of of our weekly NurseSwag giveaway. Rachelle Roggiero, registered nurse and volunteer firefighter Rachelle is a registered nurse who works for an ambulance district covering an area of 400 square miles. She also works as a volunteer firefighter. Rachelle Roggi...
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We are pleased to announce that we have selected Emily Petersen, a nursing student at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut, as the next recipient of our NurseRecruiter.com Scholarship grant. With the NurseRecruiter Scholarship, we want to encourage promising future nurses who...
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Memorial Day is the day we remember those who gave their lives in service to their country. Many of those were nurses and today we would like to take a few moments to remember and salute the military nurses of the “Greatest Generation” who served during WWII. Lt Ruth M. Gardiner (National Museum of...
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How did we miss this?! Not one, but two nurses came out of nowhere to finish in the top 5 in the prestigious Boston Marathon last month! They beat out almost all the famous professional runners. But it’s not just the times they made that are impressive. It’s the amazing stories behind them! Sarah Se...
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