News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
More states have joined the NLC — now it’s time for the big holdouts to get on board! The train keeps on rolling: month after month, year after year, more and more states are joining the Nurse Licensure Compact! Progress seems unstoppable. An impressive roster of NLC laws has been enacted and implem...
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They say nursing is a calling. But when your mom is a nurse and you’re following in her footsteps, you don’t need to be told. You’ve seen it in action — from back when you were just a little kid! Some nurses always knew what they wanted to be. Some are military veterans. Some doggedly climbed their...
Read more →You could qualify for many more jobs! And it takes just five minutes. The best and easiest way to find your next nursing job — even before you need it! — is to register on NurseRecruiter.com. But even if you have already registered, there’s an easy way to find better nursing jobs, more quickly! Upda...
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She’s funny and brave, of course we picked her! We won't get tired of repeating this: in our nurse photo contest, every photo or set of photos we publish anywhere is a winner! Send in a photo of yourself in your work scrubs or with your colleagues, and add something about yourself. That’s it, that’s...
Read more →The five things we learned from you during Nurses Week No bubble wrap from us for Nurses Week! (Cause, yeah, that happened). Instead, we offered you a choice of gift cards that are actually useful… and picked 29 lucky winners! We weren’t the only ones handing out gifts, though. This is going to soun...
Read more →This Nurses Week, just pick a number! Many companies have turned Nurses Week into Hospital Week or, worse, barely celebrate your work at all. You’ll be lucky if you get a mug with their corporate logo — and they’ll ask you to help raise the funds for it first. But that’s not us! For the third year r...
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Tell someone about NurseRecruiter and get a $300 referral bonus! How it works in a nutshell: provide us with the name, email, and phone number of the employer you’re referring, and point them to our “Hire Nurses” page so they can find out about all the advantages. If they maintain an active subscrip...
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Your time to shine: taking pride in our nurse photo contest winners! You work in veteran care or women’s health, in hospice or neuro. You’re weathering the stress of dealing with a Code Blue in the ICU, or traveling around the country administering vaccines. You’re an RN, LPN, or NP… and you’re prou...
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Photo contest: from now on, everyone wins! Here at NurseRecruiter.com we’ve been doing nurse photo contests for years now, and you know what the only thing about it is that makes us sad? We only get to pick one winner each time! It’s usually a big prize, sure — but any other participants get nothing...
Read more →Working for the devil We’re always going on about how travel nursing is great because it gets you into all kinds of different work settings. Good for your professional development, enhances your skills, yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill! But what if it actually gets you a proper Hollywood-style...
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When nurses strike! What can you expect when going on strike… or working as a strike nurse? Coming to your hospital soon? More strikes will follow What can you expect when you go on strike? What can you expect from working as a strike nurse? Unless you’ve been taking the strictest of mental health b...
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They say these are the most stressful jobs in nursing. But what are the least stressful nursing jobs? O*NET is a free, government-sponsored database with answers to any number of questions you might have about jobs and professions — useful, but not very exciting. But here's something interesting: th...
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