News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
“This must end now”: Nurses mobilize to protest conditions at the border When we watch the news, when we see stories of people whose health and lives are in danger, when we read accounts of human suffering, does being a nurse make a difference? Do we bear a special responsibility? A responsibility t...
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Pig farming is… just like nursing? It's not often we get to link to Pork Business for relevant nursing content, but when the time is right, it's right! The website that proclaims itself the leading website in "pork communications" published a story with an unexpected angle last Friday, and it's too...
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Congresswoman opens up about childhood trauma: “It was a school nurse who saw the signs” “There but for the grace for God go I,” Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley started off when invited to contribute to a special Congressional hearing last week about Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Childhood Tra...
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Nurses just play cards, they said. Nurses will speak up when insulted, they found out. We’ll send you a free deck this Nurses Day to help make the point! “I understand making sure that we have rest breaks and things like that. But … I would submit to you that those nurses probably do get breaks! The...
Read more →Nurses are NOT Superheroes… To celebrate Nurses Week we made this video to say nurses are… NOT superheroes. That’s right. We know the line: you’ll see it in all the cringy marketing stuff this Nurses Week. But it’s trite when nursing is real, and nurses deserve something better! If you like it, plea...
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Nurse video contest: Become the next face of NurseRecruiter and win $1,000! Did you hear about our nurse photo contests? Well, we are upping our game and now announce our very first video contest! We are looking for a nurse to become the face of NurseRecruiter, and you can win no less than $1,000 if...
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From sea to shining sea, will nurses get the eNLC? This month, good news from Indiana and Alabama! The Nurse Licensure Compact has been making life for nurses easier since it was first launched in 1999, saving nurses who want to take up a job in another state the hassle of going through the process...
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“The insane difference a good nurse makes”: for the patient, it’s often the little things that count. Just ask Kate! We know it. Your colleagues know it. The doctors know it. You studied for years to be a nurse. You have an intricate grasp of treatments and symptoms. You know how to juggle key respo...
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These nurses won $250 in our photo contest. Will you be next? Last month, we asked you for your help after our designer sent us a new NurseRecruiter ad that was almost perfect, but was missing something very important: a photo of a real nurse… Fortunately, you came through and we received so many aw...
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All in a day’s work: The nurses who helped fight the floods When the Spencer Dam in Nebraska collapsed in the wake of the “Bomb Cyclone” that flooded swathes of the Midwest, an 11-foot wave gushed through the breach, swallowing farms and taking down entire buildings in its swirling currents. The tor...
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What travel nurses need to know about taxes Doing taxes isn’t always fun but with a little planning and preparation, you may be pleasantly surprised by the results. As the April 15th tax filing deadline approaches, many of you will have started preparing your tax returns, or compiling records for yo...
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This nurse went well beyond the call of duty When Terry Slinde walked into Iowa Methodist Medical Center one Tuesday morning last month to meet the person who had donated a kidney to him, he didn’t know what to expect. All he knew was how grateful he was to the person who’d helped him live. Imagine...
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