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What Your ER Nurse Wishes You Knew

I have been a registered nurse for almost 7 years and in that time I have experienced so many human interactions, I couldn’t count them if I tried. I absolutely love being a nurse and these sometimes crazy, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes infuriating situations I find myself in regularly are exactly why emergency nursing is the …

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Nursing

What is a Compact State?

Check out the 2020 updates on another post: https://thewanderingnurseblog.com/2020-compact-state-update/ (Updated 7/21/2019) Compact states are an EXTREMELY helpful bit of legislation for travel nurses that makes working in certain states very convenient and easy! Unfortunately for people like me [yay, Illinois], not all states are involved in this advantageous agreement. If you live in a non-compact …

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