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Does getting there the hard way make for the best nurses? You might have heard already about Faye Lewis. The first job Faye did was serving fried chicken at KFC. She worked her way up to manager, even as she raised her son AJ and enrolled in college. Got a job as a Housekeeper at an Assisted Living...
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Extraordinary Nurses: Meet Rachelle Roggiero Rachelle Roggiero is the latest winner of of our weekly NurseSwag giveaway. Rachelle Roggiero, registered nurse and volunteer firefighter Rachelle is a registered nurse who works for an ambulance district covering an area of 400 square miles. She also wor...
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Let’s do Nurses Week every week! We supercharged our photo contests so we can send out far more gifts, and these are the first new winners If there’s one thing that makes us happy here at NurseRecruiter.com, it’s sending gifts to nurses like you to express our appreciation for all the work you do. I...
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Becoming a nurse: Meet Emily Petersen We are pleased to announce that we have selected Emily Petersen, a nursing student at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut, as the next recipient of our NurseRecruiter.com Scholarship grant. With the NurseRecruiter Scholarship, we want to...
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It pays more to be a man: how the gender pay gap in nursing persists The gender pay gap: the more studies confirm its existence, the more hotly it is debated. Research has demonstrated over and again that, overall, men with identical qualifications consistently earn more than women to perform the sa...
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Older nurses have helped stem the nursing shortage. But that means the workplace needs to change. “A perfect storm is coming for nurses,” we wrote last week. Right when the number of senior citizens who need complex medical care is about to rise sharply, a million baby boomer RNs with a deep and lon...
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Pride, passion, experience and expertise: older nurses have been helping to stem the nursing shortage, but a crisis looms A perfect storm is coming for nurses. Just when the number of senior citizens who need complex medical care is set to rise sharply, no fewer than one million nurses are leaving t...
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Louisiana joins the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact Last month, Louisiana became the 31st state to join the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC). Louisiana is a brand new addition to the compact states as it never joined the original Nurse Licensure Compact. This is great news, as it will make i...
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Memorial Day: Saluting the military nurses of the “Greatest Generation” Memorial Day is the day we remember those who gave their lives in service to their country. Many of those were nurses and today we would like to take a few moments to remember and salute the military nurses of the “Greatest Gene...
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The Weekly NurseSwag Giveaway: another reason you need to be on NurseRecruiter If you are a nurse in the U.S., you already know you need to be on NurseRecruiter. Whether you are interested in travel, permanent or per diem nursing jobs, NurseRecruiter is the best place to explore your options, find y...
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Get the most out of Nurses Week, check out these special offers you can still use! Nurses Week should mean appreciation and acknowledgement for all the amazing work you do… but let's be honest, it also means free stuff! Make the most of Nurses Week and get your fill with these special offers! We fou...
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Not one, but TWO nurses stunned the running world by taking top 5 places in the Boston Marathon, and they're both amazing! How did we miss this?! Not one, but two nurses came out of nowhere to finish in the top 5 in the prestigious Boston Marathon last month! They beat out almost all the famous prof...
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