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Police officer studying to be a Registered Nurse uses his new skills to save someone’s life Nurses often save lives. Police officers often save lives. So it’s maybe no wonder that Mitch Heaney, who works in the blighted community of Highland Park (an enclave in Detroit), turned out to be a hero. Aft...
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How many men are there in nursing? All depends on whom you ask There was a time when legal barriers kept men from working as nurses and “nursing schools often refused to admit men.” It took a Supreme Court ruling in 1982 to change that, the report Men in Nursing Occupations recounted. These days it’...
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Connecticut RN Wins Nurse Photo Contest Krystal and some of her coworkers at St. Francis Hospital on Halloween last year. “We see it all here,” says Krystal. Krystal Swift, a registered nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo...
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Happy Nurses Week! NursingJobs.us decided to drop some bars to celebrate Nurses Week, please share with any nurses you know! Random Acts of Pizza for nurses coming up! This week, NursingJobs.us will once again be sending free pizza to nurses to celebrate National Nurses Week! For a chance to win a f...
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Phoenix NICU Nurse Wins Photo Contest Phoenix NICU nurse Brittney Taylor Brittney Taylor, a registered nurse working in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona is the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com Nurse Photo Contest. Brittney will re...
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Florida ER Nurse Wins Nurse Photo Contest Fort Lauderdale ER Nurse Eddie Johnson Congratulations to Eddie Johnson, the latest winner of the ongoing Nurse Photo Contest! Eddie writes: My name is Eddie Johnson. I’m 29 and an ER nurse in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida at Broward Health Medical Center. We have...
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The week of May 6 -12 has been “National Nurses Week” for over twenty years now, and this year too it will be a unique occasion to celebrate the role nurses play in delivering the highest level of quality care to their patients. To kick off the week, we’d like to highlight just a handful of stories...
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That’s what Alexandra Robbins wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post last week (“Nurses make fun of their dying patients. That’s okay.”): “Humor has a place in hospitals, even if it’s dark, even if it’s derogatory — as long as it isn’t cruel.” Do you agree? And if you agree, how do you dra...
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Back-breaking work? A shocking 4-part NPR report on the extraordinary health risks nurses face – and a couple of charts and leads of our own National Public Radio conducted an impressively in-depth, four-part report about the working conditions and health risks of nurses, full of worrying statistica...
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Check out this amazing video from 1950 about the “hospital of the future”! “Dream grounds for a dream hospital”: in this promo film from 1950 about a model Kaiser hospital, we see babies being slid through walls in “drawer-like bassinets”, suited husbands smoking endless cigarettes awaiting their wi...
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Nurses top honesty and ethics ranking Public opinion polling agency Gallup reported that 80% of Americans rate the honesty and ethics of nurses as high or very high. It's not the first time the poll found such high appreciation for nurses either; we've mentioned it before. In fact, "Americans have b...
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Over five years after the global financial crisis, jobs are still scarcer than they used to be in the United States – but not everywhere! In true American spirit, for example, thousands of people looking for jobs – or better-paying jobs – have been trekking north and west to “men camps” in rugged st...
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