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Nurses are the front line health care professionals. Everything is their problem, 24/7. The first reports of Swine Flu in the US came from a nurse in Illinois. The demand on nurses time and patience are huge, and they wear out more shoes than horses ever will.

We've had quite a few nurses come through CV Tips.com over the years, and the list of issues, specialties, and career situations seems endless. What the nurses need, obviously, is a site which is all about them.

Nursing Jobs.org seems to be it. http://www.nursingjobs.org/

Anyone who knows the nurses and the nursing profession will know that nurses don't like messes. They don't like messy job sites, either, and they don't have time to flounder around looking for either jobs or information in that quarter of a second per month of spare time they have.

The glaringly obvious thing about Nursing Jobs. org is how well laid out it is. Somebody apparently knew what was needed, for once, on a professional site. Everything can be found from the home page. On the top of the page are three tabs: Find A Nursing Job, VIP Treatment, and NJO For Employers

Find A Nursing Job

This tab as three basic links. If you hit the green button, you'll find literally pages of jobs, all current. There's about 50 per page. To break this huge database down into specialties, you can use the Search By Specialty link, which opens an instant dialog box so you can save the usual 15 minutes on that, too. Everything, from Cardio to Urology, is on that box.

The job ads are from some big names, too. Aureus Medical, the big national site, is heavily featured. The ads on Nursing Jobs.org include direct contact numbers, and have some background info on what, where and when, apparently written by people who are paying attention to their clients, another nice change from the usual apathetic ignorance.

Even the advertising is interesting. No "How to become a millionaire in your loafers" blue sky stuff, just jobs, and lots of them. There's something called a $3000 referral bonus for Travel Nurses from Fastaff.com, another professional agency outfit, which manages to pack quite a lot of interesting features into their home page.

This is the home page: http://www.fastaff.com/Nurses-Section/nursingjobs-org.html

This is the link to the $3000 referral info: http://www.fastaff.com/Nurses-Section/become-a-FASTAFF-nurse/ReferAFriend.aspx Fastaff are looking for people who complete assignments who aren't in their current database, so you could be doing a friend a favor by referring them, or being referred yourself.

It's worth your while to do some browsing, both to see how things work on the job ads, and stay current with the opportunities.

VIP Treatment

http://www.nursingjobs.org/post-a-nursing-resume.asp

This page is a rundown on services, privacy, and is a bit like a mission statement by Nursing Jobs.org . They don't like spam (most job sites would agree) and they require employers to register, before they have to request your attention through Nursing Jobs.org before they can contact you. You have the option to refuse, or to OK them to contact you about a job. That's several years in advance of the average "Post a Resume and see what happens" version.

NJO For Employers

This is worth your while to check out, because it's how employers access the site. Nursing Jobs.org gets 90,000 hits a month. That makes it a good site to advertise, and the fact that the site lays down some ground rules is actually a plus for everybody. Some sites are pretty vague about resumes, privacy, and other things, but Nursing Jobs.org is quite strict, and that adds the invaluable "Professional" element.

The Nursing Jobs.org Blog

The site has a blog, written by Terri Polick, a nurse with 30 years experience who covers a lot of topics which will be extremely familiar to nurses everywhere. Everything from the dress code or lack of one, to workplace bullies, to your first nursing job, and more.

http://www.nursingjobs.org/blog/

Nursing Voices

Nursing jobs.org also has a Forum, called Nursing Voices, http://www.nursingvoices.com/
which is full of interesting stuff, including Laughter Is The Best Medicine, http://www.nursingvoices.com/laughter-best-medicine-43/ and I Play One On TV, http://www.nursingvoices.com/i-play-one-tv-45/ a commentary on the media version of nursing, which is a cultural introduction of a kind.

Nursing Schools page- Training information

Nursing Jobs.org also has a direct link to more information than you'd believe about training. http://www.nursingjobs.org/nursing-schools/ That's often a serious omission on professional sites, where for some reason the training is largely ignored. Nursing Jobs.org can't be accused of missing the bus, and there are links across the entire spectrum of qualifications.

The University of Phoenix is featured heavily, as a major league health care training college. The list of available degrees is a good guide to some of the possible career options you can check out on Nursing Jobs.org , too.

There are links to Nursing Scholarships, Nursing Student Loans, you name it. The top bar of the training information page pretty much covers requirements for the entire career of a nurse. The page includes links to accreditation, and organizations.

Importantly, the page also has a lot of invaluable info about online options, and online nursing schools: http://www.nursingjobs.org/nursing-schools/online.asp That is well worth your while to check out, because it's one of the great advantages of

This site really does have so much in one place it's hard to overstate the usefulness of it to professional nurses as a resource. The strong point is that there's no filler content. Everything is useful, there's no time wasting material or "cute" stuff.

CV Tips.com can't endorse products or services. I for one, however, can applaud the thinking that put this site together and made it so functional. It's perfect for people in a profession which never sleeps, in an industry under massive stress from demand. The site should be a template for professional job sites, in my opinion.

We'd love to know what our nurses think of Nursing Jobs.org . Is this the right mix for what you need? Tell us what you think.

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