For an impressive 25th consecutive year, nursing has been rated the most ethical and honest profession in the United States, according to the latest Gallup Honesty and Ethics poll conducted December 1–15, 2025.
"I've been working in healthcare for over 20 years. Healthcare is no longer about providing the best care for the patient; it's about making money."
If you’re a nurse who doesn’t want to work in direct patient care, you have options. If this sounds like you, these 15 alternative jobs for nurses may fit your needs. Not all nurses work at the patient’s bedside.
Strikes by nurses are not common -- but they do happen. The longest recent nurses' strike took place at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts during 2020-2021. That one lasted 301 days. In 2022, 15,000 nurses went on strike at 16 hospitals throughout Minnesota for 3 days.
A woman who claimed to be a licensed practical nurse is facing charges in a fraud scheme that was uncovered after a Connecticut group home patient died, leading to the discovery that the woman was never vetted or trained by the facility or state agencies that paid her wages through Medicaid, according to an arrest warrant.
Anni Kim never thought she’d make the switch from patient bedsides to Botox. An RN with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she worked as a surgical trauma ICU and rapid response nurse at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH for over seven years — before switching to become an aesthetic injector for board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Leif Rogers.
Nurse Winel George agreed to a $4,257 settlement—including a $50 fine and $4,207 investigative costs—for starting CPR on a DNR patient. he Florida Board of Nursing approved the terms, requiring 10 hours of continuing education on critical thinking and nursing ethics/legal issues, allowing her to retain her license.
A nursing student recently told me she had decided not to apply for bedside roles after graduation. Not because of her clinical rotations. Not because of faculty advice. Because of what she sees every night on TikTok.
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