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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 proud to show us who you are, and what you’re passionate about. This is w...
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A travel nurse takes short contracts wherever the work is — usually thirteen weeks at a time — and gets paid a premium for the disruption. Whether that trade is worth it comes down to the things nobody puts in the recruiting brochure: how the housing stipend actually works, what happens if a contrac...
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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. It’s like a lottery, and that just ain’t...
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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 job, working with the...
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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 breaks from all news and social media, you’ll have heard about the huge nurses strike in New...
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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: they also know what the most stressful nursing jobs are! Or… do they? And what did you tell us when we a...
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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 comfy few days off? Hey, we’re nurses — someone’s gotta do it! As nurse blogger Deb Aston once put i...
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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 Center in nearby Bellingham in 1966 before joi...
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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 nurses tried to take the lead ins...
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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 sentence, opened fire in the mate...
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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 periodically retrieve and automatically import your jobs from an...
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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 candidates will reply. And that’s not all: the better your match rate is, the more you will ap...
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