News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
Shout out to all our Nurse Practitioners out there! Did you see this, and do you agree? Is #NursePractitionerLife the best possible life? Every year, U.S. News & World Report releases new rankings of the Best Jobs in America, and this year NPs aren’t just listed as the best job in health care … the...
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Where to move next? A stressful question for some, but not for Registered Nurses who chose the travel nursing life! Thanks to a booming job market, there are always plentiful promising options. You have the luxury of choice! There’s just one thing that can get in the way. Few things have made life f...
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Per diem nurses pick up shifts as hospitals need them — covering sick calls, vacations, and the stretches when a unit is simply slammed. You set your own schedule, and you carry your own benefits. Here is what you need to qualify, where the shifts actually come from, and how to get in front of the a...
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Last month, labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr was given the Sebastian Brun Compassionate Care Award by her employer, NYU Langone Health. It is bestowed every year to “a nurse who exemplifies what it means to provide compassionate care to patients and their families” when they lose their baby durin...
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We’re going to be real with you: we know a lot about nurse salaries in different states, but we weren’t prepared for how extreme the differences have become! Everything below is built on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics wage figures for 2023. Once a year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics relea...
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Per diem nursing means working shift by shift: the hospital calls when it is short, and you say yes or no. The hourly rate is usually better than staff pay, and almost nothing else comes attached to it — no health insurance, no paid time off, no guaranteed hours. That trade is the whole decision, an...
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Getting started as a travel nurse means getting in front of the agencies that place them — without handing your phone number to every recruiter in the country. Here is how that works on NurseRecruiter, step by step, and what to expect once your profile is live. 1. Fill out your profile The first ste...
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It’s the largest health care strike in U.S. history! Now that 75 thousand healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike at hospitals and clinics across California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, it’s time to re-up our post about strikes and nurses! But this time, we’ll get straight to the...
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Now that Pennsylvania has opened its doors to registered nurses with a multistate license, it’s suddenly a lot more attractive as a travel nursing destination. But where should you go looking first? We’re going to tell you about the best city for travel nurses in Pennsylvania! There are two things t...
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Nurses sound off about the states which still refuse to join the NLC — but there's good news from Pennsylvania! “Imagine the challenge of driving across state lines if you were required to obtain a [driving] license from every state in which you were going to drive.” It wouldn’t make any sense, righ...
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It’s true, correctional nursing suffers from something of an unfair stigma. But we talked with a corrections nurse who made a passionate case for the importance of the work — and has some reassuring words to spare! Find correctional nurse jobs We got to know Brittany through our nurse photo contests...
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Have you ever gotten a job through NurseRecruiter.com? Did you successfully apply for a nursing job on our website, for example? Or did an employer or recruiter reach out to you about a job after you registered? Tell us about it, add a photo, and you could win $300! Just use our nurse photo contest...
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