To be a nurse varies in pay depending on where you live in the States, the variance can be really big. Sometimes in excess of 200%!
Here is a cool infographic on some of the key economic and wage stats for nurses (RNs) in the US.
Courtesy of MyNursingUniforms & Dickies Scrubs.
My Nursing Uniforms, an online leader in Dickies scrubs, is launching our popular nursing scrubs giveaway campaign to lucky nurses in the United States. Who’s eligible for our giveaway? From now until the end of March 2012, any nurse, or medical practitioner (that can use scrubs), that’s been blogging for a least six month is eligible to receive a gift certificate to the My Nursing Uniforms web store. (Read on …)
Celebrating independence with our duty and right to fire as many fireworks at midnight!
I see the woman turning to the right so I am using my left brain. No matter how hard I try I can’t really see it turning to the right. It explains how I see things by part and how I decipher situations as problems that can be solved. So to people whom I have said hurtful words I do apologize and now have a justification to the misbehavior that I committed (hekhek). This makes me see my future medical career more clearly.. (ehem)
If you see this lady turning in clockwise you are using your right brain. If you see it her tuning the other way, you are using left brain. Some people do see both ways, but most people see it only one way. (Read on …)
The typical nursing student receives a significantly smaller amount of sleep than that of other normal college students. This is mainly because of the requirements we have to pass, the deadlines we have to meet and the nightlife we have to live (was joking about the last one… really…).
It is generally known that the average person needs atleast eight hours of sleep to effectively regain energy and to reduce stress. Sleep is probably the best stress relief and we just can’t get enough now can we? But, there is no scientific basis to the benefits of eight hours of sleep. (Read on …)
