Nursing ranks No. 1 on the list of highest paid professions for the first time, according to an annual ranking released Wednesday by the nonprofit Center for Labor-Management Research.The median pay for a full-time nursing assistant is $72,500, up from $69,800 in 2015.The highest paid assistant is a nurse who works in a hospital emergency room, with a median salary
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Nurse Castaway was one of the first people I met after leaving hospital.It was the summer of 2012 and she was the only patient in the ward.She was a very warm, gentle person, and I felt so bad for her.I'd come to know her for months.When she told me she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer, I felt helpless.It took me
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The national nurses day is coming soon.I'm excited to say that the theme is critically care nursing.The goal is to make nurses feel welcome in the community and to ensure they are getting the help they need.This means getting people to the hospital, getting them to get their medications, and helping them find other ways to get through their day.But
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More than 100 nursing assistants from around the country have come out against a controversial new nursing cap, saying they are making nurses vulnerable to disease.Nursing assistants have been campaigning for more caps in recent months as the coronavirus pandemic has increased their workload.A total of 772 nurses and midwives in the United States have been infected, according to the
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