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Many centuries before Florence Nightingale, this Muslim woman introduced nursing to the Arabic world In the West, everyone knows Florence Nightingale, in many ways the founder of modern nursing. But many centuries earlier, a woman named Rufaida Al-Aslamia introduced nursing to the Muslim world. She...
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Ten Questions You Should Ask Your Travel Nurse Recruiter Congratulations, NurseRecruiter has helped you connect with recruiters from top travel nursing agencies, and you have been offered several awesome travel nurse assignments. You’re ready to take your first steps as a newly-minted travel nurse!...
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They Need You: The Nursing Shortage Is Real Are there enough nurses in the country? If you said no to that question, you would be right. But don’t just take our word for it. Let’s look at the numbers. A Million Job Openings The number of Registered Nurses has been increasing rapidly — just look at t...
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What are the top paying locations for nurses? When looking for the top paying locations for nurses, you need to take into consideration not only salaries, but also benefits. Furthermore, you must consider the cost of living. Because a dollar in Memphis will not buy the same goods and services as a d...
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Amanda: “I have been working as a travel nurse for a year and a half now. This photo was taken on my last night of my travel assignment in Kauai, Hawaii. My coworkers made food and leis for my last night of work at Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Lihue, Hawaii.” (Nurse Photo Contest entry) If you have b...
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Why You Should Always Be Looking for Your Next Nursing Job If you ask your fellow nurses and friends for advice on how to advance your career and maximize your salary, you'll probably get a lot of people suggesting strategies such as networking, finding a mentor, attending professional events, devel...
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Baltimore ICU Nurse Wins Nurse Photo Contest! Nadya (left) with fellow nurses at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Congratulations to Nadya, the latest winner of our ongoing nurse photo contest! Nadya submitted an awesome photo of “four of the wonderful nurses that work on...
Read more →We just merged two of the oldest nurse job boards to create one super site! NursingJobs.us is now NurseRecruiter.com! Shortly after founding NursingJobs.us it grew to become one of the top nursing job boards on the internet and it was due to this that one of the oldest nurse job boards online, Nurse...
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“I kicked my doctors but I loved my nurses”: woman who survived cancer as a child now works alongside the RNs who cared for her Rachel Oliver Smith is a Registered Nurse at Brenner Children's Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. She gets along with her colleagues well. But there is a special reason why sh...
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Ever more men work as Registered Nurses There are probably as many as 300,000 male Registered Nurses in the United States – although, as we found out in our last post on #MenInNursing, what the exact number is really depends on whom you ask. What we know for sure is that the number has been steadily...
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It’s a long way up but it’s good when you get there: from homeless to RN When Tiarra Barrera-Hammond was in her early 20s, she'd just arrived in California and struggled to make ends meet. As the mother of two little children, she'd been living with her partner in Las Vegas, but she'd had to leave w...
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South Florida RN wins Nurse Photo Contest! Cath lab RN Ja'el Ja'el, a catheterization laboratory RN at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo Contest! Ja'el will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate. Send us your best photos for a cha...
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