New York travel nursing jobs to help cancer patients

March 5, 2010 Filed Under: Traveling Nurse

Pink ribbons have long been synonymous with Breast Cancer Awareness, but there’s another advocacy group helping women who face a different cancer diagnosis: ovarian cancer; its ribbon is teal blue.
RNs are a critical part of the medical team treating a woman with cancer, which, you could say, is women helping women; according to the U.S. [...]

Illinois programs tackle Africa’s nursing shortage

February 17, 2010 Filed Under: Nursing Shortage

Nurse Theresa Poole spent her days this month offering health screening and medications as a volunteer in the Republic of Zambia. She delivered analgesics to suffering patients and taught HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.
Poole returned home Wednesday to her job at the Rosewood Care Centers, residential centers serving several communities in Illinois. In Africa, she served [...]

Despair hope come through in volunteers notes from Haiti

Dallas businessman Mike Roberts flew to Haiti on his company jet Monday with two doctors, a nurse and a load of medical supplies. His aim was to help in any way he could.
One of his first tasks was to comfort a dying boy.

“I have seen 3 people die in my first 5 hours. One was just a boy – he slowly died of respiratory failure. As he gasped for air he rarely took his eyes off me,” Roberts said in an e-mail message Tuesday evening.

National Conference Call Thursday For 1,500 RN Volunteers For Haiti Relief Effort

January 15, 2010 Filed Under: Health care, Nursing Information, Registered Nursing

More than 1,500 registered nurses from across the U.S. have responded in less than one day to the call by the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses for volunteers to provide assistance to residents of earthquake devastated Haiti -leading the RNs to now issue an urgent appeal for the public to support these efforts with donations of funds to support travel costs and medical supplies on their upcoming emergency nursing mission.

Talking about travel nursing

October 20, 2008 Filed Under: Traveling Nurse

Travel nursing is a career choice that allows you to take short-term positions across the country. As a licensed nurse in time with a big nursing shortage you are in demand. Hospitals and clinics are willing to pay top dollar for nurses to fill in for short periods.
These nursing positions usually span 3 months to [...]

Nursing vacancy for registered nurse in Australia

October 19, 2008 Filed Under: Nursing Education

Our client is a 2 campus facility with the main campus being at Berri requires a Registered Nurse. There are currently 48 beds, but this is likely to increase as we have been allocated as one of the 4 country General Hospitals. There are visiting specialists: opthalmology, orthopaedics, cardiology, neurology, vascular. Berri [...]

I decided to become a nurse

October 19, 2008 Filed Under: Registered Nursing

When Christy Jones, now 35, was a sophomore at Western Kentucky University in 1992, she witnessed a bad accident at a friend’s house.
“I felt helpless and powerless,” she said, sitting at a table in the nurses’ lounge at Greenview Regional Hospital. “And that’s when I decided to become a nurse.
“It fits me.”
While the Allen County [...]

Hot job as Practice Nurse in Medicspro Ltd.

October 14, 2008 Filed Under: Careers in Nursing, Nurse Job search

Practice Nurse
Reference PN/01
Trust / Employer Medicspro Ltd.
City London
Location England/London All
Working Hours [...]

TAITRA Announces that Medical Tourism & Health Centers Meet Together in Taiwan

October 14, 2008 Filed Under: Health care

The population of aging and overweight is increasing rapidly recently followed by more intensive prevention and treatment demands for chronic diseases. Meanwhile, the general public is also realizing the importance of prevention medicine is not only reshaping healthcare service content but also placing extra demand for new medical treatment. Taiwan, in particular, leads other countries [...]

Job vacancy in Alaska for Travel-RN

October 12, 2008 Filed Under: Nurse Job search

Company: PPR Healthcare Staffing – PPR Healthcare Staffing places Allied Health and Registered Nurse professionals in 13 – week travel assignments and permanent placement positions nationwide.
Title: Travel-RN
Location: Alaska
Description: PPR is a national Healthcare Staffing Firm that offers the best overall compensation package in the travel healthcare industry.
PPR is a national Healthcare Staffing Firm that offers [...]