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Continue Your Education While Finding PICU Jobs
10.16.09
It takes a certain personality to handle pediatric critical care jobs. Working with critically ill children can take a toll on your emotional health, especially when the prognosis and final outcome is not good. PICU jobs require highly skilled, specialized nursing staff who can work under pressure. Any critical care position involves a high degree of stress, but working with children also involves working directly with worried parents and/or caregivers....
Travel Nursing and Healthcare Jobs: Top 3 Interview Tips
10.15.09
When interviewing for a healthcare position, you’ll need to play up strengths that are unique to the healthcare industry. For example, if you’re applying for an ER nurse position, you’ll need to demonstrate your ability to handle emergency situations and balance a large workload. Here are three interview skills to master before starting to interview....
Travel Nursing: Tips for Landing a Job
10.15.09
A career in the travel healthcare setting gives professionals an opportunity to travel across the country. But competition for these positions is often high – making it important to be creative in marketing yourself....
Why work for a travel nursing company
10.13.09
If you’re not having any trouble finding permanent nursing jobs, you might wonder why you should bother with a healthcare staffing agency like Clinical One. After all, they only place people in short-term nursing assignments, right? Well, yes and no. Clinical One does offer placement in permanent positions as well as travel, per diem, and contract assignments....
Clinical One's Top 5 Spookiest Travel Nursing Destinations
10.12.09
With Halloween fast approaching, Clinical One has compiled our Top 5 list of Spooky Travel Destinations. In addition to the ghosts, goblins, and evil spirits, you can also find high paying and rewarding travel assignments in each of these locations. Local Per Diem assignments are also available in Salem and Fall River, Massachusetts....
Healthcare Jobs- Common Mistakes to Avoid
10.9.09
Whether you just graduated from college or have several years of experience, it helps to have a few tips before applying for jobs. Complete an online application for a healthcare staffing company like Clinical One....
Travel Nurse Employment: Tips for Getting Started
10.2.09
Finding your dream travel nursing job is the first step in launching an exciting career. However, once you find the position, it’s important to have the documents needed to secure the position. Here are a few tips for figuring out which items to gather beforehand so that you can quickly get your resume to the hiring manager....
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Travel Nursing News:
Coast-to-Coast
The Coast-to-Coast newsletter is a great resource for our travel nurse and healthcare professionals to learn about the services Clinical One provides, the latest news in the healthcare industry, and other helpful tips and fun facts.
Older versions of our Coast to Coast Newsletter are also available.
Hand-washing detectors could help save lives
Source: DiscoveryNews By: Cristen Conger Date: Oct 13, 2009
New health care technology could sniff out one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
HyGreen hand hygiene sensors, developed at the University of Florida, can detect whether doctors and health care workers have followed hand-washing procedures before making contact with patients. If they don't, their ID badges will vibrate and alert a database that the employees failed to wash up....
Annapolis, Maryland (MD) Spotlight
Source: Healthcare Traveler HT Enewsletter Date: Sep 9, 2009
If your travel nursing assignment finds you near Annapolis, Maryland, in September or October, make sure to experience the Maryland Renaissance Faire. Comprised of 85 acres of parking and space, and attracting 280,000 guests per season, the outdoor event is the second-largest Renaissance Festival in the country....
How travel nurses can demonstrate competence and character on assignment
Source: Healthcare Traveler Volume 16, Issue 7 By: Lila Johnson Date: Jan 1, 2009
When you arrive at a contract hospital or clinic, it is important to begin your assignment with your best foot forward, mindful of the impressions you'll make. While most healthcare providers inherently appreciate travelers' expertise and ability to adapt to changing environments, there may come a time when a manager or colleague tests your professionalism....
Joint Commission 2010 National Patient Safety Goals
Source: www.jointcommission.org
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
A new World Health Organization initiative
Essential Factors for Success
by Melissa Knybel, featured in Healthcare Traveler Magazine's Company Corner
Traveling Tips
Visit HealthcareTraveler.com for some helpful information and advice on travel nursing to help you get the most out of each of your travel nursing assignments.
Clinical One Travelers in the News:
Christina Lightner, RN
Christina was featured in an article in Healthcare Traveler Magazine titled "Travel Nurse's Perspective on Healthcare System"
Linda and Leonard McCormick, RN
Linda and Leonard were recently featured in Healthcare Traveler Magazine in an article titled "Travel Nurse Couple take Assignments Together"
Christopher Merkley, Speech-Language Pathologist
Completes Travel Healthcare Job in New Zealand
Kristine Kash, RN
Selected as American Staffing Association's "Face" of Healthcare Staffing
Healthcare Staffing News for Employers:
A Conversation with... Greg Coir: Reaffirming a commitment to the client
by Tom Schaffner, RT Image
Choosing a Healthcare Staffing Vendor
How do you define quality in a staffing agency? Clinical One seeks to prove to our clients our desire to become a true partner in the provision of quality patient care. Click on the above link for more information.
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