• Nurses Fire Back at Ignorant TV Hosts

    When ANY of the general public has the mistaken impression that nurses don costumes and borrow the doctor’s stethoscope for some unknown reason, it tells us that we have a huge problem in health care in this country. People tend to believe everything they see and hear on television and the ladies of ABC’s The View have tried to set back nursing 100 years as they showed they know nothing about the nursing profession! The good news is that nurses have UNITED and all over Facebook and Twitter and other social media they are stopping the collateral damage the way nurses do everyday. Kelley Johnson Google Images When Kelley Johnson,…

  • 7 Resume Writing Tips For Nurses

    Dan at bestresumeguru.com recently honored The Nursing Site Blog as one of The 14 Nursing Blogs Every Nursing Professional Needs to Read. I invited him to give us some tips about resume writing for nurses…. _________________________________________ According to the US Department of Labor, there is a demand for job growth for nurses. What does this mean? As much as employers seek to employ and keep their experienced nursing staff, nurses will benefit from better salaries and working conditions. You may be thinking that employers will be desperately seeking to hire you so you don’t have to worry about crafting a resume. You may be wrong if that’s your school of…

  • Staying Safe While Nursing

    Nursing is a great profession, but it has changed a lot since I first qualified. In some ways, it has got better. For example, there are more opportunities open to nurses, and it is easier to get further training and specialize than it used to be. However, not everything has changed for the better. A problem that has become a lot worse over the past few years is attacks on staff. In many countries, the number of physical attacks on healthcare workers has increased significantly. For example, in America, nursing is now one of the most dangerous professions. In 2014, one in three hospitals there reported a significant increase in…