When Kelley Johnson stood on the Miss America stage in September and told her story, 7.1 million viewers watched and listened. If the overwhelming Facebook response by nurses to the despicable press from The View is any indication, nurses have united to tell their stories and share why they love being nurses. Let’s keep that momentum going. Here’s another opportunity to share your story. Fastaff Travel Nursing is sponsoring a giveaway NursePraiseLove which provides nurses with the opportunity to share their stories and a chance to win a $500 gift card from Southwest Airlines. Deadline to enter is November 6, 2015. window.amznpubstudioTag = “daretodreampr-20”;
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Today’s Nursing Visionaries: Is a Career In Optometry In Your Future?
By Felicity Dryer There are many exciting opportunities in the nursing field, one of the many thousands of these careers is to literally become a visionary in their field by exploring opportunities in optometry. Vision is a vital part of everyone’s life and saving someone’s valuable eyesight through early diagnosis, prevention and treatment can be very rewarding. According to WHO (World Health Organization), vision problems, eye diseases and other problems afflict both young and old, specifically: About 65% of all people who are visually impaired are aged 50 and older, and this age group comprises about 20% of the world’s population. An estimated 19 million children are visually impaired. Of…
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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,…
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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…
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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…