Report finds high job satisfaction among public health nurses, but many state health departments struggle to fill vacancies. Key Findings: There is significant need to strengthen the education and training of public health nurses. Providing clinical services is part of the work done by RNs in state and local...

Of the 20 most-recruited physician and advanced practitioner specialties, 13 had higher average base salary offers in 2012-13 compared with the year before, according to a report from physician staffing firm Merritt Hawkins. Merritt Hawkins based its data on nearly 3,100 physician and advanced practitioner search assignments from April 2012...

Family medicine and general internal medicine are the top two most-recruited medical specialties, according Merritt Hawkins‘ 2013 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives. This trend is not new — primary care physicians have topped Merritt Hawkins’ list for the past seven years. The demand for primary care...

Although many hospitals and healthcare systems have recently instituted layoffs to stay afloat, some healthcare organizations are still having trouble filling their open positions. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 48 percent of nursing jobs and 39 percent of allied health jobs go unfilled on average for six weeks or...