The current year-long economic recession took its toll on the nursing profession just like it did in all the other sectors of the economy. The Class of 2009 graduates of nursing schools, for example, are a bit disappointed to realize that it is now harder to land a top-paying job in many parts of th...
Read more →Long hailed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as a nationwide crisis in the making, we are in the middle of a nursing shortage. Or are we? According to the latest stats of March 6, 2009, 27,000 new healthcare jobs were made available in February and 681,000 jobs, in general, were lost. Some of...
Read more →Although nursing is usually a very secure field to be in with nursing jobs being in high demand, with today’s economy, even nursing is feeling the crunch. Nurses are being laid off in numbers not seen in recent years. Hospitals and private offices are cutting their staffing to the bare bones. Malpra...
Read more →While researching our database of nurses looking for jobs we ran some reporting to break down the thousands of nurses who have applied for nursing jobs through us by state. Our daily averages over the last 30 days break down as shown in this map. The darker red are areas with more applications with...
Read more →Today’s complex health care environment demands that nurses are able to make quick assessments and clinical decisions. More and more nursing schools are using high tech mannequins which offer an extraordinary tool for nursing education. The Human Patient Simulator is capable of realistically exhibit...
Read more →In this economic climate a consistent refrain we hear from nurse staffing agencies is that the open jobs have plummeted, leaving agencies fighting to fill fewer open positions. Many agencies struggle with this new reality in the marketplace and those that do not adapt are facing grim prospects. What...
Read more →More news reports indicate a widespread slowdown in available nursing jobs with the primary reasons being: Nurses are taking more shifts in reaction to this economy People are avoiding the hospital to save money, reducing the current needs Nurses are putting off retirement See the following two arti...
Read more →Plentiful nursing jobs in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan are soon going to be filled by unlikely candidates if local health care professionals get their way. In March, a delegation of health care professionals and hospital administrators are traveling to the Philippines in hopes of recruiting...
Read more →But some states move forward to lessen the burden It is not exactly a stop-the-presses kind of news story because it’s not exactly new. But it continues to be a serious enough issue to warrant frequent coverage: the nurse shortage continues, threatening safe and effective delivery of health services...
Read more →It is an intricate situation… Most states or local administrative regions do not have enough funds to check up and monitor all those who need medical treatment, especially those suffering from chronic diseases like diabetes and asthma. So what if a pharmaceutical companies puts up the funds to have...
Read more →Nurses have always been at the front lines of the “healthcare battle field” more so than anybody else. They are the ones in close touch with patients and their families. They are the ones who are holding the pulse of the healthcare system on a day to day basis. Thus it is also natural that there is...
Read more →The National Council State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) convened an Invitational Forum today to collaborate with more than a dozen organizations. The purpose, to discuss the role that state boards of nursing play in the regulation of nursing education. The NCSBN was armed with studies and research to a...
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