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
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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
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
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
What is a Magnet Hospital?
You may have heard of Magnet hospitals; you may even be fortunate enough to work in one. For those of you who may not be familiar with Magnet designation, here is why the distinction matters. What is the Magnet Recognition Program? The Magnet Recognition Program was created by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to distinguish nursing excellence, innovation and quality patient care. Organizations applying for this coveted status must undergo rigorous examination before being awarded this prestigious designation. What… Continue reading
Creating a Culture of Health
Nurses, like everyone else, are subject to health problems. In fact, they may be more prone to health problems, given their long hours, shift work, odd eating patterns and high stress levels. According to an article from Nurse.com, many healthcare institutions are searching for ways to improve the health of their employees, not just because they care about the well-being of their staff members, but also because it makes financial sense to do so. It has been estimated that… Continue reading
Staffing Levels and Patient Risk
Higher nurse workloads due to inadequate staffing have a direct impact on patient outcomes after surgery, a new study has found. The large-scale study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing showed that higher nurse workloads negatively impacted all patients, but interestingly, older black patients were three times more likely than older white patients to suffer poorer outcomes after surgery, including death. Over a 5:1 patient-to-nurse ration, the odds of patient death increased by 3 percent per additional… Continue reading
The Bedside Report: Pros and Cons
We are all familiar with the end-of-shift “report”, in which patient care is handed off from the departing to the oncoming shift. This has traditionally involved a verbal report given at the beginning of the shift, detailing the particulars of each patient’s care since admission and what took place during the preceding shift. Pre-recorded shift reports are also common. These days, with the goal of increasing patient’s involvement in their own care, bedside reporting is becoming more common. What… Continue reading
Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and Penalties
California has a strict nurse-to-patient ratio law, but since there haven’t really been any penalties for failing to adhere to it, the law has been hard to enforce. A measure to give the department of public health more authority to crack down on hospitals that don’t obey the law has been vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown, according to this article in the Sacramento Business Journal. The measure was called Senate Bill 1246 and was proposed by Sen. Ed Hernandez,… Continue reading