Holidays in the Hospital: Most Common Holiday Hazards
Every season, emergency rooms treat countless Americans for injuries sustained from the hazards of the holiday. People hurting themselves around Christmas time is about as traditional as singing carols, baking cookies, and buying presents. This makes sense considering the basic ingredients for disaster are totally afoot from November until January. Folks are going overboard with the eggnog. They’re rushing around to get...
Five Steps to Becoming a Long-Term Care Nurse Who Travels
Are you interested in long-term care nursing? Do you want to travel throughout the United States? If so, check out what working in long-term care entails and the five steps to becoming a long-term care nurse who travels! What Does a Long-Term Care Nurse Do? A long-term care nurse is responsible for working with a team of nurses and doctors to care for patients in a long-term care facility, such as a nursing home. Long-term care nurses...
Tips For Relaxing After a Nursing Shift
Picture it. You’ve just finished a 12-hour nursing shift. Your feet are killing you as you sit in traffic on your way home. You spend another half an hour on your feet while you stand in the shower and wash of the blood, sweat, and tears from another grueling shift. Finally, after taking a few minutes to grab a bite to eat do you get to finally sit down. At this point, your eyes should grow heavy, and the tension from the day should...
Top Five Jobs for Nurses Outside the Hospital
Did travel nursing give you a case of wanderlust that isn’t cured by the constant 13-week change up? Are you just plain sick and tired of transferring from hospital to hospital? If that’s the case, no worries! There are also travel jobs for nurses outside the hospital available. From working with children at a school to jumping aboard a cruise ship to care for vacationers, you can find all kinds of fun ways to be a nurse in an...
Traveling to Timbuktu | Benefits of Rural Nursing
Let me guess – when you first considered becoming a travel nurse you imagined yourself in a big, fancy, city hospital in New York. Or maybe you pictured beach time in between shifts, say… somewhere along the California coast or in Florida. Travel nursing is an adventure, and there are many exotic places to practice from Hawaii to Alaska. However, this doesn’t always mean you’re going to be in the most populated area. It’s important to...