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 laugh, right when you need it most. If they hadn’t been th...
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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 was six months old, and her second when she was six years old. She’s been diag...
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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 is estimated to have been born in the year 620 — exactly 1,200 years before Florence Nightingale. Jus...
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Nadya (left) with fellow nurses at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Congratulations to Nadya, the latest winner of our ongoing nurse photo contest! Nadya submitted an awesome photo of “four of the wonderful nurses that work on the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopk...
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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 she has a particularly strong bond with some of them, and with the hospital which employs her. When Rachel was just four years old...
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When Tiarra Barrera-Hammond was in her early 20s, she'd just arrived in California and struggled to make ends meet. As the mother of two little children, she'd been living with her partner in Las Vegas, but she'd had to leave with nothing. "I was just trying to get away," she explains, looking back...
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Cath lab RN Ja'el Ja'el, a catheterization laboratory RN at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo Contest! Ja'el will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate. Send us your best photos for a chance to be the next winner of the Nurse Phot...
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Nurses often save lives. Police officers often save lives. So it’s maybe no wonder that Mitch Heaney, who works in the blighted community of Highland Park (an enclave in Detroit), turned out to be a hero. After all, he’s a police officer studying to be a nurse. Mitch Heaney, the police officer study...
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Krystal and some of her coworkers at St. Francis Hospital on Halloween last year. “We see it all here,” says Krystal. Krystal Swift, a registered nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo Contest. Krystal will receive a $100 Ama...
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Phoenix NICU nurse Brittney Taylor Brittney Taylor, a registered nurse working in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo Contest. Brittney will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certifica...
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Fort Lauderdale ER Nurse Eddie Johnson Congratulations to Eddie Johnson, the latest winner of the ongoing Nurse Photo Contest! Eddie writes: My name is Eddie Johnson. I’m 29 and an ER nurse in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida at Broward Health Medical Center. We have a very high paced, high acuity, short sta...
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The week of May 6 -12 has been “National Nurses Week” for over twenty years now, and this year too it will be a unique occasion to celebrate the role nurses play in delivering the highest level of quality care to their patients. To kick off the week, we’d like to highlight just a handful of stories...
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