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Nursing Tips: The difficult hospital patient We’ve all had them. The patient whose room we would avoid all shift if it were possible. The patient who, when receiving report from the off-going shift, made us groan. What I have found, however, is that frequently it takes a change in nursing staff to e...
Read more →Taking a Nursing Job Outside Your Community Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by a guest RN, if you’d like to write for our blog contact us. I don’t work in my community. I drive 25 miles to the northern end of another county to work as a cardiac nurse. I didn’t think about the location affecting my in...
Read more →Hospital vs. Private Practice Employment A sort of “us” vs. “them” mentality takes hold when nurses from these two different employment settings takes place. Each feels they have the better of both worlds, but is one setting really more desirable than the other? Some very important and some lighthea...
Read more →Permanent Placement Nursing Jobs The permanent nursing position. The stuff that new grads dream of. But is the permanent position the one that will work best for you? A permanent nursing job brings steady work and steady pay with the option of full benefits. Holiday pay, medical benefits, vacation t...
Read more →The Nursing Shortage Long hailed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as a nationwide crisis in the making, we are in the middle of a nursing shortage. Or are we? According to the latest stats of March 6, 2009, 27,000 new healthcare jobs were made available in February and 681,000 jobs, in general...
Read more →Nurse Staffing Agencies Many nurses seek employment with nurse staffing agencies as they have can more flexibility in how much they work and where they work. Many healthcare staffing agencies are the providers of choice for long-term care facilities when they are in a pinch during call-offs or as st...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Why I Became a Nurse by Ann Mathiews MSN, RN, CEN, TNCC The sun was shining. The blinding light reflected off the apartment pool surface as Lori and I sat sipping frozen margaritas and watching our four children splash in the shallow baby pool. Laughing as freckles emerged on our s...
Read more →How Nurses Are Portrayed on TV: One New Show Has Some Nurses Asking to Pull the Plug One of my all-time favorite shows recently had their final episode: ER. I was always a big fan of Nurse Hathaway (and Dr. Ross too) then later Sam Taggart. I always thought, if I ever end up in the ER, please let me...
Read more →Per Diem Nursing Jobs (working PRN nursing jobs) Per diem nursing jobs (or PRN nursing jobs) are a great draw for nurses. You can work your regular job and pick up a PRN job on the side as a way of making extra money. PRN jobs generally pay a more generous hourly wage than a staff position as PRN jo...
Read more →Nursing in today’s economy Although nursing is usually a very secure field to be in with nursing jobs being in high demand, with today’s economy, even nursing is feeling the crunch. Nurses are being laid off in numbers not seen in recent years. Hospitals and private offices are cutting their staffin...
Read more →Nurses For Hire The most fundamental component of a nurse recruiting operation, the set of candidate leads, is often undervalued. Nurse employers pay careful attention to the recruiters they hire, looking for strong sales people who can speak the language and have the ability to form a bond. There i...
Read more →Nursing Search Traffic By now, the secret is out that search traffic is an invaluable source of recruitment leads and offers a better return on investment than leads generated from other marketing sources. After all, nurses have been conditioned to apply online and it makes perfect sense for recruit...
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