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How Nurses Can Protect Their Mental Health: Smart Self-Care Strategies to Prevent Burnout

Minority Nurse

Before jumping into a new opportunity, create a stellar and professional-looking resume that highlights your strengths. Use guidelines for writing a resume to tailor your document for each position, carefully choosing what to emphasize in your professional history and educational background to align with the job’s priorities.

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Why Your Nursing Job Search Is Actually a Job Market Analysis

Daily Nurse

When you’re looking for a new position to advance your nursing career, everything you do throughout your job search is a form of job market analysis. From cover letters and resumes to networking and interviews, each piece of data informs how things will eventually turn out.

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Nurses, Parachutes, Stools, and the Career You Truly Want

Digital Doorway

When a resume or application is submitted online by an applicant, they are often sucked into a digital black hole where they can disappear forever. So many nurse job-seekers who contact me tell stories of how the receipt of their resumes and applications are completely unacknowledged by the companies to which they're applying.

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Nurse be Nimble, Nurse be Quick

Minority Nurse

This may be a tough row since you’ve been in outpatient nursing for your entire career, but there’s no saying it’s impossible. During these past ten years, when you’ve been focusing exclusively on home health, you haven’t done any networking , your resume is a mess, and you have few contacts beyond your small universe of home care colleagues.

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9 Best States to Travel Nurse in 2023

MAS Medical Staffing

With regular registered nurse salaries staying stagnant alongside increased demands by employers, the exponential earning potential of travel nursing and malleable lifestyle it provides should make it a career change to consider. Average Travel Nurse Salary in Virginia: $2,021 per week 7.

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From Veteran to Civilian: How to Navigate Re-Entry Effectively

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

Taking some time to re-write your resume or portfolio to match keywords and verbiage specific to civilian positions that you’re seeking will make a great difference in your chances of landing that job! Here we might change your previous statement to, “Successfully managed and organized 40 personnel during a physical training exercise.”

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Nurses Week: 7 Ways to Celebrate

IntelyCare

Whether your priority is to level up your self-care, shoes, or resume, we’re here to help. Whether you dream of working in a non-traditional role, earning a certification, or scaling the leadership ladder, a nursing career change could be just what the doctor ordered. Working as a nurse can be challenging.