Meet the Team
Behind Nurses Lounge
Nurses Lounge is a career marketplace for nurses and a professional network that connects nurses, schools, associations, and healthcare facilities on a single platform. Meet the founders helping build a more connected profession and a more practical staffing model.
Who leads Nurses Lounge?
Nurses Lounge is led by Tim Armes, President and Co-Founder, and Garret Armes, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder. Together, they have helped build Nurses Lounge into a nurse-first professional network and workforce access platform designed to improve career visibility for nurses and reduce reliance on overtime and traditional staffing agency markups for healthcare facilities.
Meet the Founders
Tim Armes
Founder, operator, and long-time builder of career marketplace and nursing workforce platforms.
Garret Armes
Operational leader focused on nurse marketplace growth, workforce access, and platform execution.
One Platform for the Nursing Profession
Nurses Lounge is building a single platform that brings together nurses and the organizations that shape nursing careers, including healthcare facilities, nursing schools, associations, and other stakeholders. The goal is to make opportunity, information, and workforce access move more directly across the profession.
For healthcare facilities, that work includes Nurse FLEX Pool, the Nurses Lounge workforce solution that gives facilities subscription-based access to a local float pool through a flat monthly fee, with unlimited access and no hourly mark-up fees. Nurses Lounge is not a staffing agency.
A Better Answer to a Fragmented Market
The nursing workforce challenge is not just about supply. It is also about access, operating friction, cost pressure, and instability. When an open shift forces a facility into the same two choices, overtime or agency labor, costs rise, burnout compounds, and continuity suffers. Nurses, meanwhile, often face fragmented career tools, rigid work options, and limited visibility into the organizations and opportunities that fit them best.
Nurses Lounge was built to offer a more direct model: a professional network created to aggregate and connect the nursing profession, while giving healthcare facilities a better alternative to middleman-driven staffing economics.
Cost Pressure
Overtime premiums and agency markups push staffing costs higher with every open shift.
Workforce Stability
Repeated call-outs and churn compound burnout and erode continuity of care.
Career Visibility
Nurses face fragmented tools and limited visibility into the opportunities that fit them.
How We Think About the Work
Nurse-first by design
Nurses Lounge is built around the real career, scheduling, and professional needs of nurses.
Direct and practical
We focus on usable tools, clear economics, and better access, not vague promises.
Built for the full profession
Nurses, schools, associations, and healthcare facilities all play a role in how nursing careers and workforce access work.
A better alternative to middleman-driven staffing
We believe healthcare facilities need a more predictable staffing model than repeated overtime or agency dependence.
- President and Co-Founder, Nurses Lounge
- Founder of Jobs.com
- Long-time builder in nursing media and workforce platforms
- Focus: staffing economics, workforce access, nurse career marketplaces
Tim Armes
Tim Armes is President and Co-Founder of Nurses Lounge. He leads the company’s strategic direction and long-range vision as Nurses Lounge expands its role as a career marketplace for nurses and a workforce access platform for healthcare facilities. His work focuses on how the nursing profession can be better connected, and how healthcare organizations can reduce reliance on costly, middleman-driven staffing models.
Tim founded Jobs.com in the late 1990s, and the company was later sold to Monster.com. After that, he took over NursesLounge.com and began building a business focused on the nursing profession. In the early years, that included launching a direct mail publication distributed to 35,000 registered nurses in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, supported by recruitment advertising from local hospitals. As digital platforms matured, that work evolved into the broader Nurses Lounge platform.
Over time, Tim’s perspective has centered on a practical market question: why should healthcare facilities remain trapped between overtime premiums and staffing agency markups when direct access to local nurses can be organized more efficiently through a platform model? That question informs the growth of Nurse FLEX Pool and the broader Nurses Lounge vision.
Garret Armes
Garret Armes is Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Nurses Lounge. He helps lead platform strategy, operations, execution, and market development across the company. His work is focused on making the Nurses Lounge model practical, usable, and effective for nurses, healthcare facilities, schools, associations, and other stakeholders across the profession.
For more than 15 years, Garret has helped shape the evolution of Nurses Lounge from a nursing-focused platform into a broader career marketplace and workforce infrastructure model for the profession. His work sits at the intersection of nurse career access, platform operations, and healthcare staffing economics.
Garret’s perspective has been shaped by direct exposure to the realities nurses and healthcare organizations face every day. Nurses need clearer visibility into opportunities and more flexible ways to build their careers. Facilities need a more predictable answer to staffing friction than repeated overtime or expensive agency dependency. His focus has been on translating those needs into a more direct and sustainable platform model.
- Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Nurses Lounge
- 15+ years helping build the platform
- Leads platform operations, workforce access, and marketplace execution
- Focus: direct sourcing and practical staffing alternatives
A Brief History of Nurses Lounge
The Beginning
After the sale of Jobs.com to Monster.com, Tim Armes took over a nursing job board named NursesLounge.com and launched a direct mail magazine for registered nurses in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
A Professional Network for Nurses
As online platforms matured, Nurses Lounge evolved beyond a job board model and relaunched as a professional network for nurses, bringing together nurses, schools, associations, and hospitals on one platform.
A Complete Rebuild
After years of operating through third-party systems, Nurses Lounge began rebuilding as a proprietary platform, which relaunched in 2022.
Expansion of Nurse FLEX Pool
Nurses Lounge expanded with Nurse FLEX Pool, a subscription-based workforce model designed to help healthcare facilities reduce reliance on overtime and traditional staffing agency costs.
For Media, Partners, and Industry Inquiries
Tim Armes and Garret Armes are available for conversations with journalists, healthcare leaders, nursing organizations, workforce strategists, schools, associations, and industry partners focused on nurse workforce access, staffing model innovation, and the future of nursing career infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are the founders of Nurses Lounge?
Tim Armes and Garret Armes are the founders of Nurses Lounge. They lead the company as President and Co-Founder, and Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, respectively.
Who is Tim Armes?
Tim Armes is President and Co-Founder of Nurses Lounge. He previously founded Jobs.com, which was later sold to Monster.com, and has spent years building platforms and media initiatives focused on the nursing profession.
Who is Garret Armes?
Garret Armes is Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Nurses Lounge. For more than 15 years, he has helped lead operations, platform strategy, and workforce access initiatives across the company.
What is Nurses Lounge?
Nurses Lounge is a career marketplace for nurses and a professional network that connects nurses, schools, associations, and healthcare facilities on a single platform.
What is Nurse FLEX Pool?
Nurse FLEX Pool is the workforce solution from Nurses Lounge for healthcare facilities. It provides subscription-based access to a local float pool through a flat monthly fee, with unlimited access and no hourly mark-up fees. Nurses Lounge is not a staffing agency.
What topics do Tim Armes and Garret Armes speak about?
They speak about nursing workforce strategy, staffing economics, subscription-based staffing models, direct sourcing, local float pool design, and the future of nurse career marketplaces.
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