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Happy Nurses Week 2018! Enjoy some pizza on us! Do you have any good Nurses Week traditions? We have one, it’s delicious, and it’s all for you! For five years now, we’ve been sending free pizza to nurses during Nurses Week. Back in 2013, we sent 76 pizzas to 194 nurses at 14 hospitals across the U.S...
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They Need You: The Summer Camp Nursing Shortage We all know about it: there is a shortage of experienced nurses across the United States. The nursing shortage is real, as the demand for nurses continues to exceed the supply. It affects everyone, but the nursing shortage is felt particularly acutely...
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#NursesTakeDC: Why are nurses once again heading to Washington? What if you knew about a problem that makes patients have to stay in hospitals longer, suffer more infections, and make it more likely they’ll need to come back for more treatment? That makes nurses unhappier at their work, and more lik...
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“They don’t teach you that in nursing school”: This PICU nurse knows how to tell a story, and it will put a smile on your face We came across this story by accident. Meghan is a pediatric ICU nurse with a Twitter account, and all she wanted to do was to share her day with her friends and followers....
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Meet Andrew Stone, an extraordinary nurse and a cult survivor We recently announced that we have teamed up with the Safe Passage Foundation to expand the NurseRecruiter.com Scholarship program, and provide nursing scholarships to people who survived a childhood in cults that routinely violated their...
Read more →NurseRecruiter.com teams up with Safe Passage Foundation to expand its scholarship program Today, we are proud to announce that we have teamed up with Safe Passage Foundation to expand the NurseRecruiter.com Scholarship program. NurseRecruiter has committed to funding a $1000/year scholarship grant...
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San Diego nursing professor wins nurse photo contest Congratulations to Eligio David Soliman, the latest winner of the NurseRecruiter.com photo contest! Eligio David Soliman working in interventional cardiology in a nurse practitioner program Eligio is an orthopedic nurse and a full-time professor i...
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“I’ll be there when you need”: When surgeons sing! Can music be medicine? “As health care providers, we often meet people at their greatest time of need,” wrote Dr. Elvis Francois in a Facebook post this week, “and sometimes the best gift you can give is a simple reminder that everything will be alr...
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An Aussie ode to nurses: lofty words are not enough Halfway across the world, a nurse’s job looks much the same — and is just as important. So how great is it when an Australian former deputy premier writes an ode to nurses for one of the country’s main newspapers? Nurses deserve our thanks when the...
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A royal advocate for nurses To most Americans, the British royal family looks equal parts exotic, outmoded, glamorous and silly. Considering the royals don’t have much of a role in the country’s government, you might also be forgiven to wonder: what do these people do all day? Supporting nurses, it...
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2018 Nurse Licensure Compact Changes: What You Need To Know Big changes are coming to multistate nurse licenses. Here is what you need to know. If you are a travel nurse or have ever relocated to another state for a nursing job, you are probably familiar with the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) system...
Read more →New York passes “BSN in 10” law Last month, the New York state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo approved legislation requiring registered nurses to attain a bachelor’s degree or higher in nursing within ten years of their initial licensure. The legislation exempts registered nurses already lice...
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