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What Is It Like To Be A Forensic Nurse? I must admit I had never heard of this specialty and my first thought was, this must be a profession where you are dealing with dead bodies, a la C.S.I. But apparently those in this field do not spend their entire day hanging around corpses. Forensic nursing d...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Bernadette by Bernadette M. Bailey, R.N. I was working in Labor and Delivery about 2 years into my nursing career, when I was assigned to a young patient who was in labor. This young girl had a hard life, was poverty-stricken and surrounded by friends and family who abused drugs on...
Read more →Recruiting Nurses Just Got Easier! Recruiting nurses just became easier, faster, and more affordable with the new Nurse Recruiter nurse marketplace. Thousands of new nurses register with us each month for help finding their next employment opportunity. We partner with nurse employers to provide: A n...
Read more →While researching our database of nurses looking for jobs we ran some reporting to break down the thousands of nurses who have applied for nursing jobs through us by state. Our daily averages over the last 30 days break down as shown in this map. The darker red are areas with more applications with...
Read more →Nurses On The Go: Donna By Donna Rich, R.N. Seven months ago my husband announced that he was just laid off from his marine construction job. I looked around our dream home, one block from our beloved ocean…the Olympic-sized pool in the backyard and an upstairs deck for our teenagers to hang with th...
Read more →Ethical Dilemma in Nursing and Moral Distress There has never been a time where there exists so many advances in medicine and technology which allow healthcare professionals including nurse RNs and travel nurses the ability to offer a wide range of treatment options. At the same time insurance and a...
Read more →Recruiting More Nurses With Less in Today’s Economy Today more than ever, staffing companies are in a race to fill each open position. With more competition per job order, positions fill quickly and firms unable to keep pace face the prospect of fewer and fewer jobs being made available to them in t...
Read more →Tax Delinquencies May Put Your License in Jeopardy You’ve worked hard to obtain your healthcare license and are therefore, very protective of it. Certain actions such as drug use, negligence or criminal actions can cause it to be suspended or revoked. But what does the government have to say about i...
Read more →Nursing Database Tutorial: What To Look For In Nursing Databases A common mistake for novice marketers is to fail to differentiate between the quality of the nurse databases they are choosing between, selecting based of total size or price when that is the least relevant metrics to their bottom line...
Read more →Patient Simulators Gaining Popularity Among Teachers and Students Today’s complex health care environment demands that nurses are able to make quick assessments and clinical decisions. More and more nursing schools are using high tech mannequins which offer an extraordinary tool for nursing educatio...
Read more →Nurse On The Go: Lori O’Keefe I have been a nurse and a certified diabetes educator for the past 11 years. I would like to share a experience I had with one of my patients. We know that we can prevent or at least delay complications related to diabetes by keeping the blood sugar as close to normal a...
Read more →Hiring Nurses In This Economy In this economic climate a consistent refrain we hear from nurse staffing agencies is that the open jobs have plummeted, leaving agencies fighting to fill fewer open positions. Many agencies struggle with this new reality in the marketplace and those that do not adapt a...
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