From bricks to scrubs: Thanks to a nurse’s encouraging words, stroke victim John McElroy found his way from the factory to the hospital Your nurse was not always a nurse. Take Annell Farris, who became a nurse at age 59 (!) and won one of our nurse photo contests. People can come to nursing from ver...
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The nurse who loved crocs Being a nurse is deeply rewarding in many ways, but hey, it’s okay — all of us, in any profession, sometimes daydream about other lives we could be living. What’s your secret fantasy career? Do you still sometimes wonder how good an astronaut you would have been? What life...
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7 states. 122 nurses. Our small contribution to Nurses Week 2017 7 states. 122 nurses. And counting! During Nurses Week, NurseRecruiter promised to buy two nursing teams a free pizza lunch or dinner every day. We’re all about team spirit, so we loved to see how many of you reached out to get your wh...
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Paying it forward: Nurses who teach and mentor “As long as I live, I will never forget my nurse superhero,” Ja’el Mitten told us in her response to our nursing superhero call, but she added something important. It’s because of how that nurse helped her when she was still inexperienced and insecure,...
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Closer than you think: Sometimes the nursing superhero is you! Who’s your nursing superhero? That’s what we asked you. Nominate a truly exceptional nurse: one who worked hard to get where they are now, and does an amazing job. Some of you recommended a close colleague, a mentor, or someone you’re pr...
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Show your experience: Take part in our photo contest! Nurses with experience are changing the face of the profession. Even though impressive numbers of new nursing grads are entering the work place every year, the share of nurses aged 50 or over is expected to reach “at least 40%” by 2020. The avera...
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She helped me through three open heart surgeries, and inspired me to become an RN myself: Nursing superheroes We asked: Who’s your nursing superhero? Who’s the nurse who made all the difference to you? Your role model, your dream colleague, or simply the nurse you admire most? You responded, and how...
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The Future Face of Nursing? This Nurse Is Very Experienced Indeed Kay Hodges is New Jersey's oldest licensed registered nurse. She’s also the Public Health Nurse for the borough of Emerson, New Jersey. That makes her easily the oldest licensed registered nurse of the state, and quite probably the ol...
Read more →Who’s your nursing superhero? Share your story with us If you’re a nurse, you’ll have had that one colleague. The one who just has this gift with patients, who they remember with a smile. The one you learned something from that changed the whole way you looked at your work. The one who makes you lau...
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Dear nurses, these two chronically ill college students have a message for you Online, they call themselves “Nemo” (“just keep swimming”) and “Tremors”. They’re college roommates, fighting the odds to get their degrees while struggling with severe illness. “Nemo” had her first heart surgery when she...
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Many centuries before Florence Nightingale, this Muslim woman introduced nursing to the Arabic world In the West, everyone knows Florence Nightingale, in many ways the founder of modern nursing. But many centuries earlier, a woman named Rufaida Al-Aslamia introduced nursing to the Muslim world. She...
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“I kicked my doctors but I loved my nurses”: woman who survived cancer as a child now works alongside the RNs who cared for her Rachel Oliver Smith is a Registered Nurse at Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. She gets along with her colleagues well. But there is a special reason why sh...
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