News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
Working this Christmas or the days up through NYE? Win up to $500 in our holiday photo contest! Are you working through the holidays this year? Laboring through Christmas or New Year’s Eve? Braving the cold to take on shifts on the days in between, while people outside healthcare are enjoying a comf...
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What can we learn from Sister Aileen Trainor? When Sister Aileen Trainor retired from her job at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon, she had worked in that very same place as a nurse in various roles for an astounding fifty-one years. Having started at St. Joseph Medical...
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How can we stop the violence? Stop the violence against nurses! In our deep-dive blog post we tried to answer all the questions: What is driving this epidemic of workplace violence against healthcare workers? How did it get this bad? What have employers done — and why is it not helping? How have nur...
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Stop the violence against nurses! That sinking feeling. “Not again.” Parents know it all too well, nowadays, when yet another school shooting hits the news. But now nurses increasingly do as well. Last week, 30-year-old Nestor Hernandez, who was already on parole for an eight-year aggravated robbery...
Read more →Speed up your search for nurses! Use job feeds and imports We’ve told you about the best ways to post your jobs manually, but what if you have a lot of jobs to post, or you regularly have new ones? Nobody likes filling out forms, and that’s why you can use job feeds and imports instead. We can perio...
Read more →Looking for nurses? If you’re posting your jobs manually, this is how to do it better! Here’s how we laid out the bottom line when we told you how to increase your candidate acquisitions now: the clearer your job posts are, and the more complete the info is you provide, the more likely it is candida...
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Nurses in Minnesota are on Day 3 of a massive strike — a sign of things to come? 15,000 nurses are on strike for the third day running in Minnesota, and it's not just about money. For five months, contract negotiations covering nurses in over a dozen hospital systems in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area...
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Travel nurses were shocked by stories of a sudden drop in demand. Should you be worried? Imagine the shock: you’re half way down your drive from Florida to Wyoming for a travel nursing job, and you hear your contract has been canceled. No warning, no caveats: you simply thought you had a job, and th...
Read more →Gifts and donations: this Nurses Week, we asked you! Just like last year, we sent gifts to nurses across the country this Nurses Week. We sent out a bunch of different t-shirts, pretty flower badge reels, hip packs to keep your nursing supplies in, gift boxes of giant body cell plushies, designation...
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Nurses Week 2022 will be interactive — because you know best! Just a few months ago, we retooled our whole website to hand over the power of choice to you, so you can decide who gets to call you about jobs. With Nurses Week, we’re going to do the same! We will send out all kinds of fun and useful Nu...
Read more →These nurses are pulling no punches The New York Times published a video editorial which spells out the truth about what’s going wrong — terribly wrong — in nursing. And it pulls no punches! We Know the Real Cause of the Crisis in Our Hospitals. It’s Greed. Yes, “America’s nurses are overworked, bur...
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Are nurse employers getting it wrong? “They’re hiring new nurses for big $$, but their experienced nurses who run the units, save their asses in staffing gaps, and keep patients alive are leaving.” It’s a blunt way to put it, but Twitter user SarahToninFNP is not wrong. https://twitter.com/MomRobe/s...
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