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Although women dominate the nursing profession, do men make more money? According to our 2015 Salary Survey, although 92% of the nursing workforce are female, male nurses make more. Read More

BSN and Associate Nurses are Neck and Neck. Will this change? The allnurses 2015 Salary Survey results will be hitting the site June 14th with interactive graphs and statistics. Based on the data obtained from more than 18,000 respondents, one of the preliminary results we found was that 39% of nurses have a BSN while 39% have an ADN. Read More

Ever Feel Inadequate? I have worked in various departments and facilities as a nurse with five years of experience. I was also an ER Tech before becoming a nurse. I am in a new department, a Med/Surg Tele. My background has been mostly float pool and in ER, ICU, SNF. Read More

What Nurses really Want to Say When They Chart We all know we have to keep it objective and professional when we write a note, but clinical notes are really masterpieces of restraint. They summarize our chaos in a way that makes us look like Daenerys Targaryen calmly walking through fire as everything burns behind her. Read More

I have no words. I have a thousand words. A typical day on a hospice unit, told by a nurse who recently left the ICU. A shift in mindset, balancing patient care with paperwork, and knowing at the end of the day what an honor it is to be a part of the end-of-life journey. Read More

Short staffing incentive ideas??? We are experiencing our typical summer baby boom at work and consequently are extremely short staffed on the large OB unit I work on. Usually a robocall will go out (similar to the one schools use to call off school) to alert staff that extra help is needed. Read More

Sleep Rooms "Many hospitals have already made the link between sleep and performance with respect to doctors. As such, they have created sleep rooms for ER physicians, surgeons and specialists." Read More