Nurses’ attitudes can influence their patient’s outlook towards a healthy lifestyle. This is the result of a study made by Joyce Fitzpatrick, published in the International Journal of Nursing Practice and the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and Eileen M. Esposito from Physicians & Ambulatory Network Services at the North Shore, LIJ Health System in Manhasset, N.Y. The study was done on 112 nurses from a New York hospital who were mostly obese or overweight.

In that study, nurses were asked on what they believe about exercise, what their personal exercise habits are and what they recommend to patients and how these were related. Basically, results revealed that nurses who believe in exercise promote it. However, the study found out that both patients and nurses needed the push before they commit to embrace healthy habits. Obese or overweight nurses can instead use their own challenges in their fight against the bulge to inspire and encourage patients to live a healthy lifestyle.

The schedule and workload of nurses may pose to be a challenge and is a common excuse for them not to be motivated to actively exercise but results of this study will now put additional pressure and responsibility on their shoulders to adapt a healthy exercise behavior as their patient’s role model and “being a nurse” at the same time.

Nursing jobs can be stressful yet can be so rewarding. It is important to keep a good rapport with people in your workplace, since this is where you spend most of your time everyday. So…

Here Are Some Tips On  How To Impress Your Managers and Dazzle Your Colleagues:

• Always be proactive. Request for possibilities to learn about new competencies as well as obtain experience. Showing that you are keen to cultivate your professional skills will not simply help make you a better nurse, but it would certainly make you a highly valued member of the team.

• Constantly present a positive attitude. Doing work within an intense care setting can often be tough and stressful. An optimistic demeanor can help to make tough situations a lot more manageable. And also, you would become a lot more productive.

• Always be versatile and anticipate the worst while hoping for the best. We cannot always foresee things so always be ready and prepared to help out. For example, if you are versatile with organizing and handling asignments, you will gain in the long run when you will be searching for a long term nursing position.

• Stick to your commitments. Make sure to convey your schedule availability and adhere to it.

• Never hesitate to ask questions – specially if you do not know what to do in crucial situations – that is the best way to learn and it will definitely prevent you from into trouble.

Follow those tips and you are on your way to a happy, productive and less stressful nursing life.

For fresh graduates from nursing schools, you might want to check 40 Ways To Get Your First Nursing Job After You Graduate

Here are current nursing job openings at Silver Cross Hospital:

• Category:      Nursing
  Job Title:     OR Tech/RN
  Qualifications:     Previous OR experience required. Must have previous scrub and circulating experience. Tech-Graduate from an accredited OR Tech Program and current OR Tech certification or eligible. RN-Current IL RN license.
  Department:     Surgery
  Shift:     10:30a-7:00p, 11pm-7am, 3pm-11pm
  Position Type:     Full Time  /  Part Time

Click Here To Apply Online

• Category:      Nursing
  Job Title:     RN
  Qualifications:     Current RN license by the state of IL. 1 year previous Registered Nurse experience required. 1 year Dialysis experience preferred. Also looking for Registry RN for Morris location working days.
  Department:     Dialysis
  Shift:     12:30pm-9:00pm
  Position Type:     Part Time – Registry

Click Here To Apply Online

•  Category:      Nursing
  Job Title:     Shift Coordinator
  Qualifications:     Licensed Registered Nurse in the state of Illinois. BSN degree preferred. Prior supervisory experience in the OR required. Must have a minimum of 3 years previous OR experience. Must be proficient in circulating and scrubbing in the OR.
  Department:     Surgery
  Shift:     3pm-11pm
  Position Type:     Full Time

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Here are current nursing job openings at Silver Cross Hospital:

• Category:      Nursing
  Facility:     Silver Cross Hospital
  Job Title:     Cardiac Cath/Special Procedures RN
  Qualifications:     Current Illinois nursing license. Prior Cath Lab/Special Procedures experience required. Candidates with previous Electrophysiology experience will be strongly considered. BLS and ACLS required.
  Department:     Cardiac Cath Lab
  Shift:     7am-3:30pm
  Position Type:     Full Time
  Job Description:     Prescribes, coordinates and delivers care throughout the nursing process. Maintains the standards of professional nursing. Supervises other health care workers as assigned.

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• Category:      Nursing
  Job Title:     RN
  Qualifications:     Current Illinois RN License. Previous Emergency Room experience required. Current ACLS, PALS/ENPC, TNS/TNCC, and ECRN certifications REQUIRED. Registry – as needed position.
  Department:     Emergency Room
  Shift:     7p-3a
  Position Type:     Registry

Click Here To Apply Online

Here are some current nursing job positions that needs to be filled in Northeast Georgia Medical Center:

• RN-Nurse Clinician

  Labor and Delivery

  Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA

  Department:	Labor and Delivery
  Schedule:	Full Time
  Shift:	Day
  Hours:	M-F 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
  Job Details:	Bachelor’s RN – Registered Nurse 5 Years Experience Required A unit based practitioner with expert knowledge of a specific patient population.  Promotes and establishes criteria for the delivery of quality Nursing care.  Proficient in providing and managing complex patient care; implementing patient and family teaching; and facilitating learn experiences for staff and students and assisting in the orientation of new staff.    Applicants to this position must have BSN, a current GA RN license and a minimum of five years recent experience as a staff RN or Nurse Clinician or Educator for Labor and Delivery.AWHONN Fetal Monitoring Instructor Required Within 1 Year of Employment.

  To Apply Online Click Here

• RN-CVOR First Assistant

  N2G-Operating Room

  Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, GA

  Department:	N2G-Operating Room
  Schedule:	Full Time
  Shift:	Day
  Hours:	0800-1630
  Job Details:	Associate’s Degree RN – Registered Nurse 3 Years of Experience Required RN Surgical Scrub functions as a member of the surgical team.  He/she will assist the surgeons during the procedure by providing the following:  retraction, hemostasis, wound layer closure, knot tying.Registered Nurse-Licensed in the state of Georgia, BLS, ACLS, CNOR certification, Completion of RN First Assist Course required within two years of hire. First Assist Certification Preferred.3 years experience as RN/Surg Tech First Assist.

  To Apply Online Click Here

• Registrar-PCN

  Neighborhood Health Care – Chestnut Mountain

  Physican Offices/NGPG, Gainesville, GA

  Department:	Neighborhood Health Care – Chestnut Mountain
  Schedule:	Full Time
  Shift:	Day
  Hours:	8am-5pm
  Job Details:	High School/GED 2 Years Experience Required Clerical experience in physician office setting.Customer service, computer skills a must.1-2 years experience.

  To Apply Online Click Here

*** This nursing job post is available thanks to Northeast Georgia Health System, Inc.

 This is a good blog By Paula Kriner and Psyche Pascual for Consumer Health Interactive that provides information on some important safety tips for nurses.

Discusses the following:

1. Needlesticks
2. Back injury
3. Workplace violence
4. Latex allergy

Hear it from an expert @  http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/nursetips#s4

Here are some useful and effective tips for nurses. Hopefully these can help you guys and serve as some reminders to do well in your hard but fulfilling jobs. Hope you’ll like them.

http://www.addtips.com/nursing-tips-nurses.htm

Watch out for more helpful tips in upcoming posts.

Annie(“,)

According to American Nurses Association, RNs earn around $56,000 or may go up to as much as $90,000 for really hard working and ambitious nurses that would go for long hours work including night shifts, weekends and some even holidays, in big city hospitals.

 There is a need to provide attractive salaries for nurses who choose to work in schools and teach to be able to cater to the huge number of enrollees.

 Now for the meantime it is still an option for the US to accommodate foreign workers to bridge the gap while the nursing schools work on training more qualified registered nurses. Well, it’s not about foreign workers taking over American jobs but it’s more on providing the need of society especially in the health care sector.

(Based on a news in CNNMoney.com)

Based on actual survey on primary doctors’ salaries, it showed that nurse specialists are getting higher pay and benefits compared to primary care doctors. This is despite the shortage in the United States of primary care doctors.

According to Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a physician recruiting and consulting firm: In 2009, CRNAs, or the Certified Nurse Anesthetists were getting an average wage of $189,000 – a lot higher compared to that of primary care doctors who were getting just around $173,000. And it will maintain that same difference in 2010.

Why get high pay for being a Certified Nurse Anesthetist or CRNA?

Well, Certified Nurse Anesthetists are specialist nurses who had advance training and can act or perform similar practice with anesthesiologists, which is administering anesthesia to patients. The difference though is when CRNAs do the administering; it still falls under nursing practice while it falls under medicine practice when anesthesiologists do it.

Also the demand for Certified Nurse Anesthetists rose due to the increase of surgical procedures in the past years, though it has brought about some negative reaction from medical doctors and is considered a hindrance in encouraging medical students to choose to pursue primary care medicine to solve the shortage of primary care doctors. CRNAs could still proudly contest that in saying, that they are able to help keep the smooth running of hospital ORs by administering anesthesia to patients and keeping them safe and comfortable when undergoing surgery.

(Based on a news in CNNMoney.com)