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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>NurseRecruiter Nursing Blog</title><link>https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog</link><description>News, advice, and insights for nurses and nurse recruiters, from the team at NurseRecruiter.com.</description><item><title><![CDATA[How to find per diem nurses to hire: The expert guide for recruiting the right talent]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/how-to-find-per-diem-nurses-to-hire-the-expert-guide-for-recruiting-the-right-talent]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to find per diem nurses to hire: The expert guide for recruiting the right talent It’s Friday afternoon, and a key staff member calls in sick. Your carefully crafted schedule is in jeopardy! That’s when the benefits of hiring for per diem nursing jobs really shine. A skilled per diem nurse is a lifesaver for every harried nursing manager. The upsides of integrating per diem nurse jobs into you...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/how-to-find-per-diem-nurses-to-hire-the-expert-guide-for-recruiting-the-right-talent]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:24:56 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse Practitioners, do you have the best job in America?]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/nurse-practitioners-do-you-have-the-best-job-in-america]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse Practitioners, do you have the best job in America? 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 … they’ve got the best job, period, in the whol...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/nurse-practitioners-do-you-have-the-best-job-in-america]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:53:22 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven surprising travel nursing hotspots in compact states]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/seven-surprising-travel-nursing-hotspots-in-compact-states]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven surprising travel nursing hotspots in compact states 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 for travel nurses easier than the Nurse Li...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/seven-surprising-travel-nursing-hotspots-in-compact-states]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:23:12 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you need a nurse headhunter to fill your more challenging positions?]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/nurse-headhunters-vs-nurse-recruiters]]></link><description><![CDATA[“A regular nurse recruiter won’t do!” Ask us about recruiting nurses, and we can talk to you for hours about the pros and cons of using recruiters to fill nursing jobs. The opportunities and the pitfalls. The advantages of using well-resourced large recruitment agencies vs. hungry individual recruiters. The added value of specialized nursing recruitment over posting on generic job boards. We’re Nu...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/nurse-headhunters-vs-nurse-recruiters]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:31:19 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[This post is not about Gaza (but it is about you)]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/this-post-is-not-about-gaza-but-it-is-about-you]]></link><description><![CDATA[This post is not about Gaza (but it is about you) 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 during pregnancy or childbirth. Jabr, who is Palestinia...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/this-post-is-not-about-gaza-but-it-is-about-you]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:33:47 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is where nurse wages are highest — and where your RN salary is worth the most!]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/cities-and-states-with-highest-nurse-wages]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is where nurse wages are highest — and where your RN salary is worth the most! New data about nurse wages just dropped last month, and 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! Once a year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases new salary data by occupation, and that incl...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/cities-and-states-with-highest-nurse-wages]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 19 May 2024 18:40:07 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get nurses to swipe right on your job: how to double your results]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/get-nurses-to-swipe-right-on-your-job-how-to-double-your-results]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get nurses to swipe right on your job: how to double your results You post a promising job opening, but barely anyone replies. What do you do? Even experienced recruiters and blue-chip employers can run into trouble with their job posts. That’s why you’ll find approximately 963 articles online about how to improve your job postings and attract higher-quality candidates. Well, we read them all so y...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/get-nurses-to-swipe-right-on-your-job-how-to-double-your-results]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:16:24 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nurses strike — again! What can you expect when you go on strike? Or take a strike nursing job?]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/when-nurses-strike-again]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nurses strike — again! What can you expect when you go on strike? Or take a strike nursing job? 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...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/when-nurses-strike-again]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:00:46 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s the best travel nursing destination in Pennsylvania, and why is it Pittsburgh?]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/the-best-city-for-travel-nurses-in-pennsylvania]]></link><description><![CDATA[What’s the best travel nursing destination in Pennsylvania, and why is it Pittsburgh? 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 that matter mos...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/the-best-city-for-travel-nurses-in-pennsylvania]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:18:01 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[“It’s just crazy — every nurse takes the NCLEX, we should be able to work anywhere in the US and not pay extra”]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/enlc-update-september-2023-pennsylvania]]></link><description><![CDATA[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, right? It would be a right royal pain… and definitely deter people from even trying. Yet that’s what man...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/enlc-update-september-2023-pennsylvania]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:18:32 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[“I now work in the same jail where I once sat in a booking cell”: the inspiring story of a successful correctional nurse]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/correctional-nursing-q-and-a]]></link><description><![CDATA[“I now work in the same jail where I once sat in a booking cell”: the inspiring story of a successful correctional nurse 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...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/correctional-nursing-q-and-a]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:12:53 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win $300 if you got a job through NurseRecruiter!]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/win-300-if-you-got-a-job-through-nurserecruiter]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win $300 if you got a job through NurseRecruiter! 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 entry form — you can describe your experience in t...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/win-300-if-you-got-a-job-through-nurserecruiter]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:14:21 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[More states have joined the NLC — now it’s time for the big holdouts to get on board!]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/more-states-have-joined-the-nlc]]></link><description><![CDATA[More states have joined the NLC — now it’s time for the big holdouts to get on board! 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. Since our las...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/more-states-have-joined-the-nlc]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:40:49 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two moms. Two daughters. All nurses. “She is my biggest inspiration!”]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/nurse-moms-and-daughters]]></link><description><![CDATA[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 way up, from housekeeper through to CNA, LPN and RN. Some have unusual backgrounds — as a brick make...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/nurse-moms-and-daughters]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:34:06 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could qualify for many more jobs! And it takes just five minutes.]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/you-could-qualify-for-many-more-jobs-and-it-takes-just-five-minutes]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could qualify for many more jobs! And it takes just five minutes. 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 thing employers value more hi...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/you-could-qualify-for-many-more-jobs-and-it-takes-just-five-minutes]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:53:37 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[She’s funny and brave, of course we picked her!]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/shes-funny-and-brave-of-course-we-picked-her]]></link><description><![CDATA[She’s funny and brave, of course we picked her! 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. Every winning nurse gets a $25 Amazon gift card! W...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/shes-funny-and-brave-of-course-we-picked-her]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:19:20 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five things we learned from you during Nurses Week]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/the-five-things-we-learned-from-you-during-nurses-week]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five things we learned from you during Nurses Week 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 favorite nurse and explained what made them so...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/the-five-things-we-learned-from-you-during-nurses-week]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 23 May 2023 17:57:48 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Nurses Week, just pick a number!]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/this-nurses-week-just-pick-a-number]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Nurses Week, just pick a number! 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 Week gifts that are actually useful. And for the third year runni...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/this-nurses-week-just-pick-a-number]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 03 May 2023 03:46:43 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell someone about NurseRecruiter and get a $300 referral bonus!]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/nurserecruiter-referral-bonus]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell someone about NurseRecruiter and get a $300 referral bonus! How it works in a nutshell: provide us with the name, email, and phone number of the employer you’re referring, and point them to our “Hire Nurses” page so they can find out about all the advantages. If they maintain an active subscription for three months, you get a $300 gift card. If you’re an employer or recruiter, you can refer y...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/nurserecruiter-referral-bonus]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 May 2023 04:26:35 +0000]]></pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your time to shine: taking pride in our nurse photo contest winners!]]></title><link><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/your-time-to-shine-taking-pride-in-our-nurse-photo-contest-winners]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your time to shine: taking pride in our nurse photo contest winners! 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 why we absolutely love our nurse...]]></description><guid><![CDATA[https://www.nurserecruiter.com/blog/your-time-to-shine-taking-pride-in-our-nurse-photo-contest-winners]]></guid><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:04:59 +0000]]></pubDate></item></channel></rss>
