News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
Are there enough nurses in the country? If you said no to that question, you would be right. But don’t just take our word for it. Let’s look at the numbers. A Million Job Openings The number of Registered Nurses has been increasing rapidly — just look at the chart below! According to the government'...
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NursingJobs.us is now NurseRecruiter.com! Shortly after founding NursingJobs.us it grew to become one of the top nursing job boards on the internet and it was due to this that one of the oldest nurse job boards online, NurseRecruiter.com approached our company about acquiring them. We were happy to...
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National Public Radio conducted an impressively in-depth, four-part report about the working conditions and health risks of nurses, full of worrying statistical data and heartbreaking personal stories. The short of it: “nursing employees suffer more debilitating back and other injuries than almost a...
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Wayne Gretzky once said “skate where the puck is going, not where it’s been” and, in the fast-evolving world of technology, this is sound advice that we have taken to heart as we launched the new NursingJobs.us job board. The new site uses a more modern interface that supports the mobiles and tablet...
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We have overhauled our site to make it easier to use, not to mention to look a lot better, come check it out at NursingJobs.us! But we aren't anywhere near done yet! We know that listening to you, our users, is how we can stay on top, and we are going to do all we can to listen to your feedback to k...
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Nurses, like everyone else, are subject to health problems. In fact, they may be more prone to health problems, given their long hours, shift work, odd eating patterns and high stress levels. According to an article from Nurse.com, many healthcare institutions are searching for ways to improve the h...
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Andrew Gentry/ Fotolia Higher nurse workloads due to inadequate staffing have a direct impact on patient outcomes after surgery, a new study has found. The large-scale study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing showed that higher nurse workloads negatively impacted all patients, but...
Read more →Alexander Raths/ Fotolia California has a strict nurse-to-patient ratio law, but since there haven't really been any penalties for failing to adhere to it, the law has been hard to enforce. A measure to give the department of public health more authority to crack down on hospitals that don't obey th...
Read more →VILevi/ Fotolia Consider the following scenario: It is a typical busy morning on the ward. The unit is full to capacity. One of the nurses called in sick prior to the beginning of the shift, and thus far no replacement has been found. The other nurses have had to pick up the slack, increasing their...
Read more →Are nurses at the manager level barriers to the implementation of nursing care based on best practice? A survey published in the Journal of Nursing Administration seems to suggest so. The survey, which was answered by 1,015 American Nurses Association members, found that there many barriers to the i...
Read more →Junial Enterprises – Fotolia.com When nurses are happier and healthier, their patients have better medical outcomes. So it makes sense that the opposite is true as well — that unhappy, burned-out nurses have patients who are at higher risk for health-care associated infection rates. Burned-out nurse...
Read more →dekanaryas – Fotolia.com Nurse Residency Program Makes Stronger Nurses New nurses in their first orientation program can expect to learn routines that are specific to their employer, and the policies and procedures associated with their job. They will check off competencies and compliance as they co...
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