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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 staff members leave their...
Read more →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 skin instead of the even tan we were see...
Read more →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 be attended by a nurse like them (and a doctor like Dr. Ross, or at least Dr. Gates)...
Read more →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 jobs usually do not carry any medical or paid time...
Read more →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 staffing to the bare bones. Malpra...
Read more →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 does combine the job aspects of clinical...
Read more →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 a regular basis, and she had...
Read more →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 nurse search engine for targeting le...
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 →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 their friends. There was,...
Read more →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 administrative restraints, rising healthcare co...
Read more →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 today's marketplace. NurseRecruiter.com specializes i...
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