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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Who was your “Uncle Jack”? 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...
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Does getting there the hard way make for the best nurses? 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...
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Extraordinary Nurses: Meet Rachelle Roggiero 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 wor...
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Let’s do Nurses Week every week! We supercharged our photo contests so we can send out far more gifts, and these are the first new winners If there’s one thing that makes us happy here at NurseRecruiter.com, it’s sending gifts to nurses like you to express our appreciation for all the work you do. I...
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Becoming a nurse: Meet Emily Petersen 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...
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Pride, passion, experience and expertise: older nurses have been helping to stem the nursing shortage, but a crisis looms A perfect storm is coming for nurses. Just when the number of senior citizens who need complex medical care is set to rise sharply, no fewer than one million nurses are leaving t...
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Memorial Day: Saluting the military nurses of the “Greatest Generation” 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 Gene...
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Not one, but TWO nurses stunned the running world by taking top 5 places in the Boston Marathon, and they're both amazing! 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 prof...
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“They don’t teach you that in nursing school”: This PICU nurse knows how to tell a story, and it will put a smile on your face We came across this story by accident. Meghan is a pediatric ICU nurse with a Twitter account, and all she wanted to do was to share her day with her friends and followers....
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Meet Andrew Stone, an extraordinary nurse and a cult survivor We recently announced that we have teamed up with the Safe Passage Foundation to expand the NurseRecruiter.com Scholarship program, and provide nursing scholarships to people who survived a childhood in cults that routinely violated their...
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“I’ll be there when you need”: When surgeons sing! Can music be medicine? “As health care providers, we often meet people at their greatest time of need,” wrote Dr. Elvis Francois in a Facebook post this week, “and sometimes the best gift you can give is a simple reminder that everything will be alr...
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