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Happy Nurse’s Week – A Bumpy Ride
By Angie Best-Boss RN - May 9, 2016
“Could you take a look at this? It really itches, and I don’t know what to do.” “Here’s a picture of my foot. I think I got a spider bite. What should I do?” Ask any nurse, and you’ll find that
When Bad Resumes Happen to Good Nurses
By Angie Best-Boss RN - April 28, 2016
Ask any human resources professional, and you’ll get an earful of resume blunders guaranteed to make you shake your head, and nurses aren’t exempt from making embarrassing resume mistakes. Nurses seeking
Nurse Confessions - Why I Love My Compression Socks
By Angie Best-Boss RN - April 26, 2016
I swore I would never do it. Ever. I didn’t care what anyone else said - I was never going to wear compression hose. Compression socks are for old ladies with too many cats and waitresses with big
Job Hunting Tips to Help Respiratory Therapists Breathe Easier
By Angie Best-Boss RN - April 21, 2016
With a $56K median salary, respiratory therapists are among healthcare’s least understood professionals. Over 14,000 new RT jobs are expected to be created by 2024, and respiratory therapists will have
First US Insurer to Build Medical School
By Angie Best-Boss RN - April 12, 2016
When it comes to HMO’s, it doesn’t get much bigger than Kaiser Permanente. When they make a move, the medical establishment takes notice. But their latest announcement was a bold one – the Oakland,
NFL Partners with Physician Group for Concussion CME
By Angie Best-Boss RN - April 7, 2016
After several well-publicized cases of brain injury among veteran players, a pricey lawsuit, and a new movie focusing on the perils of professional football and the risk of brain injury, the NFL is
Top Reasons to Consider Small Town Physician Jobs
By Angie Best-Boss RN - April 5, 2016
Unless you grew up in a small town, practicing medicine in a rural community may not be every new doctor’s dream job. But when the time comes for a new doctor to choose a home base, smaller towns
National Doctors' Day – Honoring Our Physicians
By Angie Best-Boss RN - March 24, 2016
The first Doctors' Day observance was March 30, 1933 in Winder, Georgia. Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, decided to set aside a day to honor physicians. The date was the anniversary
A Nurse's Letter to the Interns
By Angie Best-Boss RN - March 17, 2016
It happens every summer – a new crop of interns show up on my hospital unit. It’s a nice rite of passage – a handful of new baby docs show up and spend a few months shadowing our unit’s physicians.
Magnet Designation and Nurses
By Angie Best-Boss RN - March 11, 2016
If you have been a nurse for longer than a minute, you’ve heard about Magnet hospitals, but you may not have heard what it actually means for patients and for nurses to be in a Magnet hospital. It’s
