We hope you enjoyed celebrating Nurses Week as much as we did! NursingJobs.us decided, at the very last minute, to give away pizza to nurses and their coworkers in 14 cities across the United States to celebrate Nurses Week 2013. As a struggling startup with only 5 full-time employees we are no huge corporation with deep pockets, we’re still small enough that spending hundreds on a pizza giveaway is something we have to check our bank and credit card balances… Continue reading
Happy Nurses Week 2013! Have a pizza on us!
National Nurses Week begins on May 6th and ends on May 12th (the birth day of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale). Across the nation, communities will gather to celebrate and recognize the accomplishments, hard work, dedication and courage of millions of nurses. Inspired by a story we read about ER departments from Boston ordering pizza for nurses in West, Texas we decided we were going to start a new tradition of free pizza for nurses during Nurses Week! We are… Continue reading
List of Nurses Week 2013 Events
National Nurses Week will begin on May 6 and run through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. Nurses and their friends and family will be celebrating Nurses Week at events across the country and below are some of the events we know about. Don’t forget to let us us know about Nurses Week events in your local community so we can spread the word! You can email the details to events@nursingjobs.us or post them… Continue reading
National Nurses Week photos wanted!
As you celebrate Nurses Week, don’t forget to bring your camera and take pictures to submit to the NursingJobs.us Nurses Week photo contest. And if you have any photos from past Nurses Week events, we would love to see those as well! The National Nurses Week photo contest will run from now until May 19th and we will be awarding fabulous mystery prizes to the winners. Email your photos to contest@nursingjobs.us by May 24th. Official Contest Rules NO ENTRY FEE IS NECESSARY… Continue reading
Real Nurse Photos
Since we announced the Real Nurse Photo Contest last month, we’ve received some amazing photos we would like to share with you. You can find them all on display at Real Nurse Photos. We’ve got pictures of nurses on duty, and nurses doing the leisure activities they love – everything from running half-marathons to digging for gold! We’ve got some beautiful photographs from travel nursing jobs all over the world, too. Visit Real Nurse Photos to see all the photos… Continue reading
The Outlook for Nurse Employment in America in 2013
It’s the $64,000 question. What is happening with the job market for nursing in the United States? Staff Nurses According to Salary.com, staff nurses can make an average of about $66,500 per year. Per O*Net (which is run under the auspices of the United States Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration), there are over 2.7 million staff nurses in America, and projected growth for his decade is predicted to be faster than average (20% to 28%), while there are to… Continue reading
Living and Working as a Nurse in Charlotte
A charming older city in the southern United States, Charlotte is home to some very fine hospitals. Some of the best nursing jobs in Charlotte can be found at Carolinas Medical Center, Presbyterian Hospital and Gaston Memorial Hospital, which are all well-rated by US News and World Report, and have several high-performing specialties. Many Charlotte area nursing jobs are in hospitals located within a reasonable driving distance, including Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, Rankin Women’s Medical Center, and Mecklenburg Radiology.… Continue reading
Living and Working as a Nurse in Philadelphia
One of the most historically fascinating cities in the United States, Philadelphia is home to some of the best hospitals in the country. Some of the best nursing jobs in Philadelphia can be found at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital, Albert Einstein Medical Center and Fox Chase Cancer Center, which are all well-rated by US News and World Report, and all have high-ranking specialties. Many Philadelphia nursing jobs are in hospitals located… Continue reading
Help us show the world the real image of nursing.
Are you a nurse? We are offering $100 in our nurse photo contest! Real portrayals of the nursing profession are few and far between and instead of settling for buying fake-looking models posing in halloween nurse costumes for our stock photographs we at NursingJobs.us figured that we might as well try asking the many nurses who use our nursing job board to send us their own, real, photos and let us use them to better represent the face of nursing… Continue reading
Living and Working as a Nurse in Boston
One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston is home to some of the best hospitals in the country. Some of the best nursing jobs in Boston can be found at Massachusetts General, Brigham & Women’s, Beth Israel Deaconess, the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, New England Baptist Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which are all well-rated by US News and World Report, and all are ranked #1 in the United States in at least one specialty by… Continue reading