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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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That’s what Alexandra Robbins wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post last week (“Nurses make fun of their dying patients. That’s okay.”): “Humor has a place in hospitals, even if it’s dark, even if it’s derogatory — as long as it isn’t cruel.” Do you agree? And if you agree, how do you dra...
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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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“Dream grounds for a dream hospital”: in this promo film from 1950 about a model Kaiser hospital, we see babies being slid through walls in “drawer-like bassinets”, suited husbands smoking endless cigarettes awaiting their wives’ childbirth, and hospital rooms with sliding doors that open up to a te...
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Public opinion polling agency Gallup reported that 80% of Americans rate the honesty and ethics of nurses as high or very high. It's not the first time the poll found such high appreciation for nurses either; we've mentioned it before. In fact, "Americans have been asked to rate the honesty and ethi...
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Over five years after the global financial crisis, jobs are still scarcer than they used to be in the United States – but not everywhere! In true American spirit, for example, thousands of people looking for jobs – or better-paying jobs – have been trekking north and west to “men camps” in rugged st...
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Back by Popular Demand Our Nursing Jobs Photo Contest! Send us a photo through our nurse photo contest form for a chance to win $100! Calling All Nurses! Recently we at NurseRecruiter have been looking through stock photography to use for ours campaigns/ads however all we’ve continued to come across...
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Valentine's Day is right around the corner and what better to celebrate than with some sweet treats. We dug up this delicious ECG cookie recipe from Erica's Sweet Tooth. The recipe consists of chocolate roll-out cookies with some royal icing with some ECG patterns. Chocolate Roll-Out Cookies 3 cups...
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A heroic nurse stepped in to save an elderly patient from a Doctor that was about to cut into the patients vein with a scalpel in order to take a blood sample. Doctor Vincent Osunkwo received the job of senior house officer at Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise after he was the only one to appl...
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Nurses from Seattle Children's Hospital got down and groovy for an online video challenge to their very own remake of Abba's Dancing Queen. The nurses went all out with disco moves and sparkly bell bottoms. Watch the fun video below.
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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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