Shifting Seasons, Adjusting Routines – 5 ways to cope! It’s the end of August and we are all experiencing that shift again! Small shifts like the temperatures getting cooler overnight and the sunrise just a bit later and sunset a bit earlier, signal the end of a season It’s back to school for the kids and maybe you, a shift
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5 Simple Self Care Tricks for Nurses Nursing by its very nature requires compassion, altruism and commitment. The dedication to helping others often causes nurses to neglect their own healing and self-care needs. Today, nurses experience increased stress as a result of more work hours and greater patient loads. It is well documented that stress contributes to disease. When the
Continue readingWhat are you doing this summer? School’s out and the first official day of summer is Wednesday June 21! Summer is most people’s favorite time of the year, the weather is warm and it’s time to relax and recharge spend time with friends, family and maybe visit a new place. Here are some favorite activities that will take you outside,
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May 6th is National Nurses Day! We celebrate and support Nurses every day! We set aside this day to raise awareness and celebrate the important role nurses play in society. It marks the beginning of National Nurses Week, which ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale. Nurses are a vital part of a healthy society. They are in
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Springtime – 7 steps to renew and refresh! Depending on where you live, some of us have had a harsher winter than others. The winter weather is just one of the factors that may have brought you down, among them are the political climate, daily traffic, stretched finances, and just maybe your current job. There is hope! Spring officially starts on
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Welcome to a New Year! After starting the year with a clean slate, many of us took stock of the passing year, what went well, and what we would like to change in the New Year. This fresh 12 months fills us with hope for a better future. However, we all know how long hope and willpower can last. You must have
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Recruiter General Statement of Duties: The function of this position is to identify qualified allied medical professionals to fill positions through effective recruiting, interviewing and screening processes, and ensuring successful placements of temporary, temporary-to-hire and full-time candidates. Developing relationships by securing thorough job order requirements, matching qualified candidates to positions, monitoring job performance and staffing associate satisfaction are also responsibilities
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Temp Hiring Plans Edge Up in Second Half, Survey Says Encouraging news about temp-hiring in the 2nd half of 2015, according to CareerBuilders. The exciting piece of this story is that healthcare is looking at some of the biggest year-over-year gains in permanent hiring (56%), this is great news for job opportunities and wages. You can read the entire article
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SOS Healthcare Staffing Receives Joint Commission Recertification SOS Healthcare Staffing (SOSHCS) headquartered out of Aurora, CO recently received their third recertification with The Joint Commission. The Joint Commission Gold Seal of ApprovalTM is a two-year award making SOSHCS compliant through October 2018. Staffing firms have been held to this standard of excellence since 2005, and SOS is proud to be
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Benefits of Becoming a Travel Nurse Hired to work in a specific location for a limited amount of time, travel nurses work throughout the country for a period of eight to 26 weeks. With the demand for nurses being so high due to shortages in certain areas, becoming a travel nurse has been growing as a profession not only
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3 Useful Interpersonal Skills in the Healthcare Field If you’re considering entering the healthcare field and aren’t quite sure there to begin with the whole application and resume process, don’t be intimidated because there are plenty of other people feeling the exact same way. Regardless of what your previous job was, there are plenty of primary skills you can use
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With healthcare professions such as registered nurses being in high demand (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics), the market is only expected to continue to expand. The healthcare field can be very specific depending on the applicant or person hiring, and this is when healthcare staffing agencies come into play. When you apply with this industry, you don’t just
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