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.

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 […]

In an intriuging way to address the nursing shortage a new site called NurseAuction.com has launched. It is an interesting concept where the site, which is free, allows nurses to bid on shifts and shift owners to bid on nurses in a “stock exchange” like market. I commented on this on a post at PixelRN.comif you want to read it, but […]

Here is an interesting article about the nursing shortage and one hospital’s efforts to fight it using shift bidding. One thing that struck me was the blaming of the nursing shortage partially on travel nursing, when in reality travel nursing is a solution to the nursing shortage.
It is a strange relationship between the two because […]