A nurse signed a contract to work the night shift on weekends at a local hospital and received a $10,000 sign-on bonus. Shortly after beginning orientation, management gave her shift to someone [...]
Nurses have been regarded as tough and hard-working since Clara Barton provided care on the battlefields of the Civil War. While Barton is famous for her career as a nurse, many one-time nurses [...]
A proposed New Jersey law would allow the state to join a compact that allows out-of-state nurses to work here without jumping through hoops and vice versa. Most recently advanced by an Assembly [...]
Nurses have intense experiences that most other health care workers don’t. As a result, they tend to have a great deal of stress. Having friendships with other nurses tends to alleviate stress [...]
Pursuing continuing education is something that all health care professionals consider during their careers. The decision to seek this opportunity is the easy part, but focusing on a specialty [...]
Chantal Smits, a nurse who works with brain tumor patients, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor after she saw a poster describing the debilitating symptoms she had been suffering from [...]
Thanks to patients she has cared for over the years, this intensive care nurse feels as if she’s found the new year’s resolutions that will matter to all people in the end. One of her [...]
The field of nursing is not easy, and the challenges within the health care industry that affect nursing require more than vague answers. To get a real understanding for what the future holds for [...]