News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
The train keeps on rolling: month after month, year after year, more and more states are joining the Nurse Licensure Compact! Progress seems unstoppable. An impressive roster of NLC laws has been enacted and implemented in recent years. No fewer than 36 states have now fully implemented the Compact....
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They say nursing is a calling. But when your mom is a nurse and you’re following in her footsteps, you don’t need to be told. You’ve seen it in action — from back when you were just a little kid! Some nurses always knew what they wanted to be. Some are military veterans. Some doggedly climbed their...
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The best and easiest way to find your next nursing job — even before you need it! — is to register on NurseRecruiter.com. But even if you have already registered, there’s an easy way to find better nursing jobs, more quickly! Update your profile… so they’ll focus on you! Hear us out. What is the one...
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We won't get tired of repeating this: in our nurse photo contest, every photo or set of photos we publish anywhere is a winner! Send in a photo of yourself in your work scrubs or with your colleagues, and add something about yourself. That’s it, that’s how simple it is — everything else is up to you...
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No bubble wrap from us for Nurses Week! (Cause, yeah, that happened). Instead, we offered you a choice of gift cards that are actually useful… and picked 29 lucky winners! We weren’t the only ones handing out gifts, though. This is going to sound super sappy, but it’s true. When you nominated your f...
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Many companies have turned Nurses Week into Hospital Week or, worse, barely celebrate your work at all. You’ll be lucky if you get a mug with their corporate logo — and they’ll ask you to help raise the funds for it first. But that’s not us! For the third year running, we’ll be giving out Nurses Wee...
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You work in veteran care or women’s health, in hospice or neuro. You’re weathering the stress of dealing with a Code Blue in the ICU, or traveling around the country administering vaccines. You’re an RN, LPN, or NP… and you’re proud to show us who you are, and what you’re passionate about. This is w...
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A travel nurse takes short contracts wherever the work is — usually thirteen weeks at a time — and gets paid a premium for the disruption. Whether that trade is worth it comes down to the things nobody puts in the recruiting brochure: how the housing stipend actually works, what happens if a contrac...
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Here at NurseRecruiter.com we’ve been doing nurse photo contests for years now, and you know what the only thing about it is that makes us sad? We only get to pick one winner each time! It’s usually a big prize, sure — but any other participants get nothing. It’s like a lottery, and that just ain’t...
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We’re always going on about how travel nursing is great because it gets you into all kinds of different work settings. Good for your professional development, enhances your skills, yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill! But what if it actually gets you a proper Hollywood-style job, working with the...
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Coming to your hospital soon? More strikes will follow What can you expect when you go on strike? What can you expect from working as a strike nurse? Unless you’ve been taking the strictest of mental health breaks from all news and social media, you’ll have heard about the huge nurses strike in New...
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O*NET is a free, government-sponsored database with answers to any number of questions you might have about jobs and professions — useful, but not very exciting. But here's something interesting: they also know what the most stressful nursing jobs are! Or… do they? And what did you tell us when we a...
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