Welcome to the ShiftMed blog where we discuss everything nursing, from professional insights to healthcare holidays to helpful hints for working with us.
Nursing may be a profession taken for granted in the U.S. (just like teachers), but the numbers speak differently to their value. As a career, there’s a lot of flexibility, stability, and earning potential working as a nurse.
What factors affect health the most? If you are a public health nurse, you believe that wellness isn’t just about an individual but the community they live in and the population to which they belong.
Are you interested in surgical nursing? Do you like working with patients in high-stakes, fast-paced medical environments? If you are interested in anesthesiology and perioperative care, you may find yourself drawn to becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist or CRNA.
Scrub nurses, sometimes called surgical nurses, are vital to any surgical team. These nurses work to maintain a sterile environment within the operating room. In addition, they assist the surgeon and help minimize complications during surgery.
A triage nurse quickly and accurately assesses a patient's symptoms and decides where they can get the care they need. Triage nurses usually work in a setting where patients go in an emergency, where they take inventory of the patient’s symptoms, ask questions about medical history, and try to get a clear idea of what’s causing the concern.
App-based staffing agencies give nurses the power to choose when, where, and often they work—right from the palm of their hands. When a CNA, LPN, or RN claims a shift through a nursing jobs app, they work for a staffing company as a W-2 employee or a 1099 independent contractor.
When you work with ShiftMed, you're a W-2 employee—not a 1099 independent contractor. But what does that mean, exactly? You'll find these employment classifications are different in several ways, but in this post, we'll focus on payroll taxes.
