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· Nurse Stories, Announcements

Nurse Photo Contest: We have a winner

Annell Farris Congratulations to Annell Farris, the latest winner of the ongoing Nurse Photo Contest! Farris graduated from the School of Nursing at John Hopkins University in 2008 when she was 59 years old and began her career as an operating room nurse. Annell will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift c...

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· Announcements

Nurse Photo Contest – Calling all nurses!

Send us a photo for a chance to win $100! As many of you nurses already know, it is not easy to find accurate portrayals of nurses. As we explained the in our last photo contest: Real portrayals of the nursing profession are few and far between and instead of settling for buying fake-looking models...

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· Nurse Stories

Superheroes visit Texas Children’s Hospital

Gerber Abarca as “Spiderman” rehearses his poses while dangling off the building to begin scaling the hospital exteriors to wash windows and surprise patients at Texas Children’s Hospital on Friday, July 19, 2013, in Houston. PHOTO BY MAYRA BELTRAN. A group of superheroes, disguised as window washer...

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· Nurse Stories

The American Nurse

In The American Nurse, photographer and award-winning filmmaker Carolyn Jones, through quiet photographs and deeply moving text, tells the personal stories of 75 nurses from across the U.S.–and in doing so gives voice to millions of women and men playing an important role every day in America’s heal...

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· Working Conditions

Pediatric Oncology: Super formula to fight cancer

Receiving chemotherapy is no fun for anyone and can be a particularly difficult experience for children. However, international ad agency JWT Brazil and film studio Warner Brothers recently teamed up with the A.C. Camargo Cancer Center in São Paulo, Brazil to develop a campaign, "Super forumula to f...

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· Travel Nursing

The Joys of Travel Nursing

Nurses who enjoy traveling and want variety in their work experience have an amazing option available to them known as Travel Nursing. A travel nurse can contract through a specialty nurse-staffing agency, and work short-term or long-term assignments in different locations around the country. Sort o...

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· Announcements

Nurses Week 2013 Pizza Parties

We hope you enjoyed celebrating Nurses Week as much as we did! NursingJobs.us decided, at the very last minute, to give away pizza to nurses and their coworkers in 14 cities across the United States to celebrate Nurses Week 2013. As a struggling startup with only 5 full-time employees we are no huge...

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· Announcements

Happy Nurses Week 2013! Have a pizza on us!

National Nurses Week begins on May 6th and ends on May 12th (the birth day of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale). Across the nation, communities will gather to celebrate and recognize the accomplishments, hard work, dedication and courage of millions of nurses. Random Acts of Pizza...

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· Announcements

List of Nurses Week 2013 Events

National Nurses Week will begin on May 6 and run through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. Nurses and their friends and family will be celebrating Nurses Week at events across the country and below are some of the events we know about. Don't forget to let u...

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