Job Market

The 7 deadly sins of job hunting

Losing a job is never in any nurse’s career plan. Take solace in knowing that there is a right way and a wrong way to handle unemployment and landing your next nursing job.

600,000 new jobs for RN’s to be created by 2018

According to NPR news and statistics projected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there’s no time like the next decade to become a nurse.

Reports show hospitals are rebounding from recession

According to New York-based financial information company, Thompson Reuters Corp. hospitals are showing signs of rebounding from the recession. Key findings include: •The percentage of hospital revenue left over after regular business expenses increased from zero in the third quarter of 2008 to 4 percent in the second quarter this year. In Texas, the proportion [...]

New hospital to create jobs, improve health in Alaska

The Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome, Alaska, has been awarded $90.5 million in funds by The Indian Health Services (IHS) to replace a 61-year-old hospital currently serving 10,000 users.

Layoffs – what’s old is new

We asked our nurse expert Jim DeMaria to draw a parallel between the layoffs of the 90′s and today, and what we can learn from them during these economic hard times.