Volume 8 Number 7 - February 22nd

Las Vegas is the most exciting city in the world!

Magnificent hotels glow green and gold, a laser beam penetrates the night’s sky, volcanoes erupt, fountains soar, roller coasters corkscrew far above the city below, and white tigers roam. Welcome to Las Vegas, the world’s largest adult playground, where over 38.5 million people visit each year to experience the sightseeing, fine dining, and entertainment that is so uniquely Vegas. Playing the odds has been a part of Vegas since the first casino opened, why don’t you come out and try your luck?

Share your stories. Send us your photos!

Winners with photos who are chosen to be featured in the newsletter will receive a special prize!

Please email your photos to travelerphotos@accessnurses.com or mail them to:

Access Nurses: Traveler Photos
5935 Cornerstone Court West #300
San Diego, CA 92121-3711

Note: Photos mailed to Access Nurses will not be returned.

Please include:
Your Name
Location of photo
Your Story

Disclaimer:
By submitting photos you are affirming that you own the rights to said photos and are granting Access Nurses permission to use these photos in our media with indemnification from any claims resulting from their use.

Hot Jobs

Contact your recruiter or call Access Nurses at 1-866-687-7390 to inquire about the following jobs!

Henderson / Las Vegas, Nevada
PICU
Positions: 1
Shift: Nights
Start Date: ASAP

Portland, Oregon
Oncology
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 hour days, M-F 8am to 5:30pm
Start Date: 6/1/07

Beverly, Massachusetts
Interim ER Manager
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

Greenville, North Carolina
Dialysis
Shift: 12 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Jackson, Tennessee
ER
Shift: 12 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Simi Valley, California
GI Lab
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Apple Valley, California
OB/L&D and TELE
Positions: 1
Shift: Nights
Start Date: 2/26/07 or 3/5/07

Monterey, California
Home Health
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Warrenton, Virginia
Home Health
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Hartford, Connecticut
Dialysis
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 or 10 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dialysis
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 or 10 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Ventura, California
Dialysis
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 or 10 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Bakersfield, California
Dialysis
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 or 10 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Nursing Site of the Week

American Nurses Association

NursingWorld.org is the official website of the American Nurses Association. On their site you can find information about certifications, continuing education, practices, policies, legislations, publications and much more!

Featured Forum Topic

Experience

I am still a student but am looking into the surgical field. I am already hired to work on a surgical floor, but really want to be in the surgical room as a ciruclating nurse. How much experience do I need? I know it’s hospital preference, but what suggestion can you all give me?

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Humor

The Avid Golfer

My job as a land surveyor took me to a golf course that was expanding from 9 holes to 18 holes.

Using a machete to clear thick brush in an area I was mapping, I came upon a golf club that an irate player must have tossed away. It was in good condition, so I picked it up and continued on.

When I broke out of the brush onto a putting green, two golfers stared at me in awe. I had a machete in one hand and a golf club in the other, and behind me was a clear-cut swath leading out of the woods.

“There,” said one of the golfers, “is a guy who hates to lose his ball!”

Volume 8 Number 6 - February 15th

Shawn Hubbard, RN
Santa Cruz, California

This is a photo of the lighthouse on East Cliff Beach next to the boardwalk. Traveling was always a dream of mine. I have never been so welcomed like I have been here. Santa Cruz, CA is the perfect place to be for me. I thank my recruiter for encouraging me to travel to this area. I would recommend Santa Cruz to any traveler wanting a diverse population with a multi-cultural and open minded way of living.

Share your stories. Send us your photos!

Winners with photos who are chosen to be featured in the newsletter will receive a special prize!

Please email your photos to travelerphotos@accessnurses.com or mail them to:

Access Nurses: Traveler Photos
5935 Cornerstone Court West #300
San Diego, CA 92121-3711

Note: Photos mailed to Access Nurses will not be returned.

Please include:
Your Name
Location of photo
Your Story

Disclaimer:
By submitting photos you are affirming that you own the rights to said photos and are granting Access Nurses permission to use these photos in our media with indemnification from any claims resulting from their use.

Hot Jobs

Contact your recruiter or call Access Nurses at 1-866-687-7390 to inquire about the following jobs!

Greenville, North Carolina
Dialysis
Shift: 12 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Gainesville, Florida
NICU
Positions: 3
Shift: Negotiable
Start Date: ASAP - Quick Starts Only

Hudson, Florida
ICU/CCU
Positions: 2
Shift: Days
Start Date: ASAP - starts before 3/4/07

Tucson, Arizona
Step-Down
Positions: 1
Shift: 12 hour days
Start Date: 3/12/07

Gainesville, Florida
CCU/ICU
Positions: 20
Shift: 12 hour days and nights
Start Date: 2/26/07

Albuquerque, New Mexico
ICU
Positions: 1
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

San Francisco, California
Neuro ICU
Positions: 3
Shift: 12 hour rotating
Start Date: ASAP

Redding, California
Endoscopy
Positions: 2
Shift: 12 hour day and evening shifts
Start Date: ASAP

Jackson, Tennessee
ER
Shift: 12 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Beverly, Massachusetts
Interim ER Manager
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

Kissimmee, Florida
ICU
Positions: 2
Shift: Days
Start Date: ASAP - will interview quickly

Turlock, California
MS/Tele
Positions: 4
Shift: 2 for days and 2 for nights
Start Date: ASAP

Oakdale, California
ER & ICU
Positions: 2
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

Nursing Site of the Week

Auburn University School of Nursing Helpful Resources Page

The Auburn University School of Nursing offers a small but very complete list of links in their Helpful Resources Page. The list has links of the top websites on several subjects of the nursing business, such as a career guide, minority nurses, travel nursing, etc…

Featured Forum Topic

I want to see the USA but where to start?

I passed the NCLEX-RN just before christmas and the time has come to decide just where in the USA I want to work. I currently live in the North East of England and am due to start working for OGP somewhere near the end of the year. I have 6 years experience and currently work on a Trauma Ward for the past 6 years which is med/surg specializing in orthopedics, plastics, max fax and A&E admissions. I have a list of the usual places in the US to visit but no idea where to work. Ideally somewhere very friendly and not freezing cold (been there done that). Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

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Humor

Discipline

A school teacher injured his back and had to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. It fit under his shirt and was not noticeable at all. On the first day of the term, still with the cast under his shirt, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in school.

Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, he opened the window as wide as possible and then busied himself with desk work. The classroom became a bit unruly and he admonished them. This happened several times.

When he could do work at his desk, the strong breeze from the window made his tie flap annoyingly. He kept rearranging and rearranging the tie as the class raised it’s level of unruliness.

Finally, becoming disgusted with the wayward tie, he stood up and took a big stapler off his desk and stapled the tie to his chest in several places.

Discipline was not a problem from that day forth.

Volume 8 Number 5 - February 8th

Why not travel to San Diego?

Welcome to San Diego, California’s second largest city. With more than 70 miles of pristine sandy beaches, a gentle and warming climate, and a large variety of attractions, it is a special place that begs for a day of everything and nothing. Bordered by Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, the Anza-Borrego Desert and the Laguna Mountains, San Diego offers immense options for business and pleasure. Come relax and soak up the sun in San Diego today.

Share your stories. Send us your photos!

Winners with photos who are chosen to be featured in the newsletter will receive a special prize!

Please email your photos to travelerphotos@accessnurses.com or mail them to:

Access Nurses: Traveler Photos
5935 Cornerstone Court West #300
San Diego, CA 92121-3711

Note: Photos mailed to Access Nurses will not be returned.

Please include:
Your Name
Location of photo
Your Story

Disclaimer:
By submitting photos you are affirming that you own the rights to said photos and are granting Access Nurses permission to use these photos in our media with indemnification from any claims resulting from their use.

Hot Jobs

Contact your recruiter or call Access Nurses at 1-866-687-7390 to inquire about the following jobs!

San Diego, California
PICU
Positions: 4
Shift: 7p-7a
Start Date: ASAP

State College, Pennsylvania
ICU
Positions: 1
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

Stamford, Connecticut
Home Health
Positions: 2
Shift: 8 hour days M-F and rotating weekends
Start Date: ASAP

Gainesville, Florida
ICU/MICU/SICU
Positions: 20
Shift: 12 hour days and nights
Start Date: 2/26/07

Tucson, Arizona
Telemetry
Positions: 1
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: 4/9/07

New Port Richey, Florida
Tele Observation
Positions: 3
Shift: 1 day and 2 nights
Start Date: ASAP - will interview quickly

Sacramento, California
ER
Positions: 2
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

Redding, California
ICU
Positions: 2
Shift: 12 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Portland, Oregon
GI Lab and Ambulatory Care
Positions: 2 for GI and 1 for Ambulatory Care
Shift: Days
Start Date: ASAP

Memphis, Tennessee
Ante-Partum
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

New Bern, North Carolina
IMC
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

Boston, Massachusetts
OR Circulate/Scrub
Shift: 8/10 hour rotating shifts
Start Date: ASAP

Nassau & Suffolk County, Long Island, NY
L&D, PICU, ER Pedi, ER
Positions: 5
Shift: 12 hour days and nights
Start Date: ASAP

Dillingham, Alaska
Clinic Nurse
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Hartford, Connecticut
Dialysis
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Santa Maria, California
ER
Positions: 1
Shift: 7p-7a
Start Date: ASAP

Bronxville, New York
OR
Positions: 1
Shift: 8 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Jacksonville, Florida
Med Surg - Dept. of Corrections
Positions: 2
Shift: 12 hour days
Start Date: ASAP

Jacksonville, Florida
Med Surg
Positions: 4
Shift: Nights - Fri, Sat, and Sun
Start Date: ASAP

Nursing Site of the Week

Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Web site provides information, research and prevention for nurses in HIV/AIDS care. It also provides useful information for those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.

Featured Forum Topic

Flight Nurse in Alaska

I am interested in hearing from other nurses in high stress areas of nursing and how you cope.

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Humor

Male Emotions

One night a wife found her husband standing over their baby’s crib. Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, delight, amazement, enchantment, skepticism.

Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes glistening she slipped her arm around her husband.

“A penny for your thoughts,” she said.

“It’s amazing!” he replied. “I just can’t see how anybody can make a crib like that for only $46.50.”

Volume 8 Number 4 - February 1st

Nancy F, RN
Hudson Beach, Florida

This photo was taken on my last assignment in Hudson, Florida. This was really one of the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen. Hudson Beach is a captivating place. The people were friendly, the town was picturesque and the beaches were phenomenal! It was a great way to get away from the winter cold.

Share your stories. Send us your photos!

Winners with photos who are chosen to be featured in the newsletter will receive a special prize!

Please email your photos to travelerphotos@accessnurses.com or mail them to:

Access Nurses: Traveler Photos
5935 Cornerstone Court West #300
San Diego, CA 92121-3711

Note: Photos mailed to Access Nurses will not be returned.

Please include:
Your Name
Location of photo
Your Story

Disclaimer:
By submitting photos you are affirming that you own the rights to said photos and are granting Access Nurses permission to use these photos in our media with indemnification from any claims resulting from their use.

Hot Jobs

Contact your recruiter or call Access Nurses at 1-866-687-7390 to inquire about the following jobs!

National City, California
TELE
Positions: 3
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

Stamford, Connecticut
Home Health
Positions: 2
Shift: 8 hour days M-F and rotating weekends
Start Date: ASAP

Memphis, Tennessee
Peds ER
Positions: 1
Shift: 3p - 3a
Start Date: ASAP

Ft. Myers, Florida
Med/Tele
Positions: 6
Shift: Days/Nights
Start Date: ASAP

Las Vegas, Nevada
ICU
Positions: 2
Shift: Days/Nights
Start Date: ASAP

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Pediatrics
Positions: 3
Shift: 12 hour day/night rotation or straight nights
Start Date: 2/12 or 2/19

Gainesville, Florida
CCU
Positions: 23
Shift: 12 hour days and nights
Start Date: 2/12

Tucson, Arizona
Recovery/PACU
Positions: 1
Shift: 10 hour shifts
Start Date: 2/12 or 2/26

Memphis, Tennessee
Ante-Partum
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

Greenville, North Carolina
Post Partum
Shift: 12 hour days/nights
Start Date: ASAP

Morrisville, Vermont
OR Circulate
Shift: 8/10 hour day shifts
Start Date: ASAP

New Port Richey, Florida
Tele Observation
Positions: 3
Shift: 1 day and 2 nights
Start Date: ASAP - will interview quickly

Anaheim, California
COU/TELE
Positions: 1
Shift: 7p-7a
Start Date: ASAP

Anaheim, California
Med-Surg/TELE
Positions: 1
Shift: 7a-7p
Start Date: ASAP

Anaheim, California
ER
Positions: 2
Shift: 1 for 12p-12a and 1 for 1p-1a
Start Date: ASAP

North Bay, California
ICU
Positions: 2
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date: ASAP

State College, Pennsylvania
ICU
Positions: 2
Shift: 12 hour nights (40 hours)
Start Date: ASAP

Connersville, Indiana
L&D
Positions: 2
Shift: 12 hour nights
Start Date:

Hudson, Florida
MS/Tele
Positions: 6
Shift: 2 days and 4 nights
Start Date: ASAP

Hudson, Florida
PACU
Positions: 1
Shift: 11am - 7:30pm
Start Date: ASAP - for a 10 week assignment

Nursing Site of the Week

National Student Nurses’ Association

The National Student Nurses’ Association (nsna.org) promotes the development of future nurses and provides educational resources, leadership opportunities, and career guidance. The site has very useful links and resources pages.

Featured Forum Topic

Suggestions for a New Grad

Hello, I am a student registered nurse in need of words of wisdom for a new grad to live by. Please, any advice in my eyes is good advice for a new fish in the sea.

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Humor

Jesus is Watching You

A burglar broke into a house one night. He shone his flashlight around, looking for valuables, and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark, saying, “Jesus is watching you.”

He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off and froze. When he heard nothing more after a bit, he shook his head, promised himself a vacation after the next big score, then clicked the light back on and began searching for more valuables. Just as he pulled the stereo out so he could disconnect the wires, clear as a bell he heard, “Jesus is watching you.” Totally rattled, he shone his light around frantically, looking for the source of the voice. Finally, in the corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to rest on a parrot.

“Did you say that?” he hissed at the parrot.

“Yes,” the parrot confessed, then squawked, “I’m just trying to warn you.”

The burglar relaxed. “Warn me, huh? Who do you think you are, anyway?”

“Moses,” replied the bird.

“Moses!” the burglar laughed. “What kind of stupid people would name a parrot ‘Moses’?”

The bird promptly answered, “The same kind of people who would name a Rottweiler ‘Jesus’!”