News, advice, and insights for nurses and the people who hire them.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day like a nurse with these very special cookies! Don't fake it, bake it! If that special someone in your life has a sweet tooth, there's still time today to tell them "I love you" in a special nurse-themed way. Everyone likes cookies, and these look just amazing! Have a heart!...
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The nurses who stood by Martin Luther King Jr. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman,” Martin Luther King Jr. told the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) at its 1966 convention. Hundreds of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers had...
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You agreed: short staffing is like drunk driving. So why did nurses who tried to do something about it in Massachusetts fail so badly? We came across a great metaphor about short staffing, finessed the wording, turned it into this image, and shared it on Facebook and Instagram. It was as if we’d ope...
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This nurse is officially the star of Christmas Eve! It’s Christmas Eve, and families around the country are coming together to celebrate the holidays… except you’re a nurse, and you couldn’t get time off. Problem? Not necessarily! “Nursing is a 24/7/365 job,” writes budding nurse blogger Deb Aston....
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Who was your “Uncle Jack”? A long while ago, we asked you to tell us about your personal nursing superheroes: the people who motivated and inspired you, or set an example you have tried to live by. This Thanksgiving, we’d like to share the story that perhaps moved us most of all. Thank you, Heather...
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At least four nurses won this week – and so did Stephanie! They saw the ferocious battles that engulfed Washington, DC. They witnessed the tense stand-offs over healthcare policy. And they decided that, as nurses, they had something to say and should just run themselves. We found at least nine nurse...
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At least one nurse is making a splash in these midterm elections. How many more are running? Up in Illinois, a Registered Nurse is making a splash in the midterm election campaign: 31-year-old challenger Lauren Underwood has a surprise 6-point polling lead in the state’s 14th Congressional district...
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Ten reasons for nurses to vote this November Have you voted already? Are you planning to vote? On this blog we’re not in the habit of telling you what to do. You’re smart, you know what is right for you – and we know you’re already dealing with enough people who feel they know what you ought to do....
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Your nurse blogs: The ultimate list of blogs by and for nurses in 2018! Tired of charting, but want to keep reading? Did we list your blog? Post our award on your site & link it back here! We believe we have created the definitive list of blogs by and for nurses. If it’s worth reading, it should be...
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Nurse, vote! Help us get out the nurse vote this November Donald Trump is not running. Neither is Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. But even if your heart might not skip a happy or fearful beat when you think of Kevin McCarthy or Steny Hoyer, the upcoming midterm elections are going to be as importan...
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Do you ever worry whether you’re doing this whole nursing thing right, or whether you came to nursing the “proper” way? Here on our blog we love to share the stories that nurses tell us about their jobs, and how they found their way there. Not just because each story can be an example for others, bu...
Read more →NurseRecruiter to provide up to $1 million per year in free services for nonprofit organizations to recruit nurses Two years ago, we launched the new NurseRecruiter job board, one of the best online platforms for recruiting nurses in the United States. Nurse recruiters can use our service to post jo...
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