Last night’s episode of ‘Hopkins’ featured another heart transplant. This time it was a toddler in need of a healthy heart. This scenario is every parent’s worst nightmare.

As you all are well aware, nursing can be a very stressful profession, which makes it so important to have at least one outside interest you can escape to. The beauty of travel nursing is that there are a lot of great hobbies out there make it a great career option for nurses.
Here are just […]

As I watched last night’s episode of Hopkins, there was a sequence where a patient attacked a nurse. This is a problem and no hospital or facility is immune.

Travel nursing is a career field where you will often find the time to make a lot of great new friends and memories. If you are at all creative this spells the perfect combination for creating a scrapbook of your travel nursing experiences. It just takes a little time, glue, paper and imagination to capture […]

In a very concerning story published in the New York Times, nurses and other personal care workers suffer from workplace assualts at an alarming rate. In fact the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that half of all nonfatal injuries resulting from workplace assaults occur in health care and social service settings.

Preparing to start a new travel nursing assignment in a new city or location you’re not familiar with? One thing you’ll want to know is where to find a convenient ATM that’s near your assignment or your housing.

Travel nursing tops the list of the 5 coolest jobs in healthcare according to NursingLink.com. I already think travel nursing is pretty cool, but it is nice to see it start to get more and more recoginition for what an amazing option it can be to a typical nursing career.
Some of the other healthcare careers look pretty intersting […]

Here is a cool story about a nurse who carried the Olympic torch, which despite all the controversy this year, is something that I think is still a pretty important honor.