International Nurse Sponsorship: Abandoned by a USA Sponsor?

Immigration and U.S. sponsorship for international nurses can be challenging, especially for organizations that don’t specialize in this area. Luckily, Conexus MedStaff is an expert in immigration and sponsorship for international nurses and medical technologists. The Conexus team is not only here to help international nurses take their first steps towards an international nursing career…

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USA Nurse on the Frontline: Brittany’s Story

Hello, my name is Brittany and I am a Canadian trained registered nurse of five years this year. In the year 2019, I continued my nursing passion in the United States (U.S.) through Conexus MedStaff. I work for one of the largest hospitals in the South East of the US.I am a psychiatrist nurse, caring…

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If Left Untreated: The Fallout of Nurse Fatigue and Burnout

It seems like only yesterday we were raising the flag on the importance of our nurses and their impact on quality outcomes and patient care always, but particularly in the midst of a global pandemic. But our universal fatigue of COVID-19 has quieted the excitement and the accolades for the unsung nursing heroes who continue…

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The Visa Bulletin for Nurses: Your Place in the Line

With the October 2020 Visa Bulletin for the new fiscal year set to be issued in the coming weeks, we thought it would be a good time to recap what the Visa Bulletin actually is, how it works, and why it’s important for international nurses and international nursing students in the U.S. to understand how it…

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Where Have All the Certified Nursing Assistants Gone?

Where has the ancillary support for our healthcare facilities gone? Ancillary support includes the critical position of Certified Nursing Assistants, or CNAs. These positions are vital to our staffing models, partnering with Registered Nurses to take on certain ratios or acuity of patients.  Nurses rely on CNAs to support their work efforts and to support quality…

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Diversity and Cultural Inclusion In Nursing

What a year 2020 has been so far, now halfway through it. Each of us is having to look at our inner selves closer than we ever have. And being less mobile is affording more time for this reflection.Australia forest fires, COVID-19, and now addressing something we had silently thought we had already addressed but…

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Long-term COVID-19 Impact on the Nursing Shortage

As a nurse, and a healthcare staffing professional, I can say that the COVID-19 pandemic has been “unique.”  I worked as an RN during HIV and was providing healthcare personnel during H1N1, SARS, and Ebola. Never before March 2020 had I seen the extremes as we have seen during this COVID-19 pandemic.We have seen an…

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COVID-19 Story: I am a Second Liner

This fight against COVID-19 hits closer to the heart for us as medical professionals. My friend in the Philippines has been in the hospital for 3 months now. He is an ICU nurse and followed all protocols to ensure his safety, including using PPE and frequent handwashing.  He got so sick that at one point,…

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Nurses Week Discounts 2020

This year, the American Nurse Association-designated recognition week will begin with National Nurses Day on May 6 and conclude May 12, on the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.  Each year, companies around the country offer nurses all kinds of free or discounted meals and treats through the end of Nurses Week on May 12.  We…

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