News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
The new nurse wage numbers are out, and there is one line worth reading twice. The typical registered nurse got a bigger raise last year than the average nurse did. That sounds like nonsense until you look at the two figures side by side. The average RN wage rose 4.2%, to $98,430. The median, meanin...
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For the first time since the pandemic, most of the numbers in nursing's annual scoreboard are moving in the right direction. Turnover fell for the third year running. Hospitals added nearly a hundred thousand nurses to their payrolls. Even the time it takes to fill a vacancy shrank, by three whole d...
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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...
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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 … the...
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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 f...
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“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 recruit...
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Per diem nurses pick up shifts as hospitals need them — covering sick calls, vacations, and the stretches when a unit is simply slammed. You set your own schedule, and you carry your own benefits. Here is what you need to qualify, where the shifts actually come from, and how to get in front of the a...
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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 durin...
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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! Everything below is built on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics wage figures for 2023. Once a year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics relea...
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Per diem nursing means working shift by shift: the hospital calls when it is short, and you say yes or no. The hourly rate is usually better than staff pay, and almost nothing else comes attached to it — no health insurance, no paid time off, no guaranteed hours. That trade is the whole decision, an...
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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 candi...
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Getting started as a travel nurse means getting in front of the agencies that place them — without handing your phone number to every recruiter in the country. Here is how that works on NurseRecruiter, step by step, and what to expect once your profile is live. 1. Fill out your profile The first ste...
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