According to a report from Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, one of the nation’s largest recruiting firms, nurses trained in administering anesthesia are regularly offered higher salaries than family physicians. The firm’s review indicates that the average salary offered to recruit family physicians is $172,000, compared to the $185,000 average salary offered to recruit nurses trained [...]
If you’re a travel nurse who’s wondering about their career options in the future, you can rest assured that the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) is doing all they can to keep the nursing shortage going strong. The part about you always having job opportunities, that’s the good news. The bad [...]
If you know what hospital you want to work for, you next step is getting the best deal you can from a travel nurse staffing agency. But how do you do this? Do you call every agency in the U.S. and ask them if they fill travel nurse positions at the hospital or facility you [...]
Traveling healthcare flourishes in spite of national economy
By: Anne Baye Ericksen
Healthcare Traveler
“According to the nightly news, the U.S. economy could be heading straight for a recession—or already is in one. While the prices of oil and gasoline steadily climb, housing values drop equally fast. The ripple effect from these circumstances is also making [...]
With falling profits, rising operating expenses, and more patients. Many facilities are looking for ways to cut. Nash Health Care System in NC is looking to replace Travel Nurses with full-time employees.
Spring Hope Enterprise, Spring Hope, NC - May 28, 2008
By KEN MURCHISON
Nash Health Care System lost money in 2007 and that could mean the [...]
Imagine being on a waiting list for four years just to enter a nursing program. Now, imagine that scenario in Colorado, which is among the top-ten states in this nation’s nursing shortage. Here’s the problem - Nurshing schools in Colorado don’t have enough nurses with advanced degrees to teach students in the 11 programs spread [...]
While you probably still have to work, it IS National Nurses Week here in the United States. The week coincides with the birth date of Florence Nightingale (May 12). Many consider Florence Nightingale to be the founder of moder-day nursing. National Nurses week dates back to 1953, when Dorothy Sutherland of the U.S. Department of [...]
These top ten political issues eJane has put forward may sound unsurmountable, but as a nurse, travel nurse or other healthcare provider, there are plenty of ways for you to get involved. You can write to Congress, become a member of groups such as the Center for Nursing Advocacy, and make your voice heard, and [...]
Many of us - travelers and non-travelers - are working more and more hours. It’s easy to wonder who’s out there watching out for your profession and making sure Congress and other regulatory agencies are behind your best interests. The good news is the ANA (American Nurses Association) is taking care of your industry.
According to [...]
Advanced Practice Nurses (APRN)
Registered nurses who possess advanced education and skills quite often work in specialized practices, and can find themselves in positions such as certified nurse midwife or certified registered nurse anesthetist. Some advanced practice nurses (APRN), can even diagnose medical conditions and illnesses - even write prescriptions. APRNs are currently an important [...]
Pharmaceutical Companies
Pharmaceutical companies are making more and more money each year from consumers and other sources of revenue. The cost of this profit along with rising costs of research are being passed on to patients. An increasing number of these patients are becoming unable to afford to pay these rising costs. Stagnant economic growth, stagnant [...]
The Media Image of Nurses
All too commonly, today’s popular TV shows cast nurses as mere physician assistants and peons who have little or no technical knowledge of medicine. These misrepresentations and typecasts often result in nurses getting less authority and respect from two very important areas: patients and doctors, which obviously [...]
Let’s face it, email is here to stay. It’s in colleges and universities, America’s largest and smallest corporations. It allows us to communicate quickly and efficiently with the added benefit of being able to review our words before they travel to our intended recipient.
But is email coming to a doctor’s office near you? Probably not, [...]
Nurse Education
One of the most obvious ways to combat dwindling nurse staffing levels (besides enacting legislation to protect patient ratios) is to make nursing more attractive, education potential nursing students about the career potential nursing holds and remove the barriers to receiving quality nursing education. Rep. Lois Capps, a nurse serving in Congress, has proposed [...]
Nurse Staffing Levels
As nurses and travel nurses are probably aware, this country is experiencing a shortage of registered nurses. This shortage results in overworked nurses and can easily patient safety into question. Nurses on all levels, in all departments need to push their employers for better pay and working conditions. Better pay and conditions for [...]