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Five reasons to tell the people you know about the new NurseRecruiter.com scholarship Do you know anyone who wants to be a nurse? You can help them! Tell them about the brand new NurseRecuiter.com Scholarship. NurseRecruiter.com has been in the business of connecting nurses with jobs across the US f...
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I am asking for your help to give a gift to a family truly in need Nancy Martin, RN, PHN, is a public health nurse home visitor in Santa Rosa, CA, who works with high risk families — and she asked us to help: The families I visit are all low income, with social and medical risk factors such as homel...
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From bricks to scrubs: Thanks to a nurse’s encouraging words, stroke victim John McElroy found his way from the factory to the hospital Your nurse was not always a nurse. Take Annell Farris, who became a nurse at age 59 (!) and won one of our nurse photo contests. People can come to nursing from ver...
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What makes a nurse not only a good nurse, but a hero? “What makes a nurse not only a good nurse but a hero?” That’s the key question Courtney Butler raised after we called for your nursing superhero stories. What would your answer be? We present two more examples here. Courtney knows who hers is: Ci...
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From pediatric nurse to businesswoman: Tranquilo Mat’s Melissa Gersin has advice for new parents and entrepreneurial nurses Melissa Gersin was an EMT and a pediatric nurse – not very different from any of you. Then she hit on the idea of designing the “Tranquilo Mat”, a baby soothing mat which emula...
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When violence comes to the hospital “This is supposed to be a place where we save and heal people,” Donna Lee Peterkin told a news conference this week. She is a registered nurse at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York City, and recounted what she did when Henry Bello went on his brutal shootin...
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From kitchen to operating room? How hundreds of hospital employees, from cooks to lab workers, went to nursing school — for free A hospital system in Northern Texas has been offering hundreds of its employees the chance to go to nursing school and get an associate degree in nursing — for free, Dalla...
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She was a Pediatric Nurse, tending to three crying infants — then the idea hit her. Now her Tranquilo Mats are soothing babies everywhere, and you can win one! Pediatric nurse Melissa Gersin was having a particularly stressful shift in the nursery. Three babies all needed soothing, but there wasn’t...
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The sweetest thing: Tell us your story and win a box of donuts! If you’ve been a nurse for long enough, you’ve seen it all. Things that made you laugh, cry and roll your eyes. And a couple of things no-one else would believe! But what’s the sweetest thing that ever happened to you as a nurse? We’d l...
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Tap dance. Nursing. See the connection? It’s May 25, so it’s National Tap Dance Day! (Yes, it really exists. It’s official, even. President Bush signed it into law in 2004.) Which is great fun, but what could it possibly have to do with nurses? Well, we dug into the YouTube archives and we found a l...
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The nurse who loved crocs Being a nurse is deeply rewarding in many ways, but hey, it’s okay — all of us, in any profession, sometimes daydream about other lives we could be living. What’s your secret fantasy career? Do you still sometimes wonder how good an astronaut you would have been? What life...
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7 states. 122 nurses. Our small contribution to Nurses Week 2017 7 states. 122 nurses. And counting! During Nurses Week, NurseRecruiter promised to buy two nursing teams a free pizza lunch or dinner every day. We’re all about team spirit, so we loved to see how many of you reached out to get your wh...
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