Opinion: Why aren’t philanthropists stepping up to support nursing education?
Michael Bloomberg’s donation of $1 billion to Johns Hopkins University to support medical education goes…
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STAT+: RaDonda Vaught, nurse that accidentally killed patient, to speak at CommonSpirit event on patient safety
CommonSpirit Health is hosting an educational event this month featuring RaDonda Vaught, the Tennessee nurse…
STAT+: Four burning questions about the potential 85,000-worker Kaiser Permanente strike
This week, the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions is negotiating a new national contract with…
STAT+: Bernie Sanders, Bill Cassidy clash over proposal to increase primary care doctors, nurses
WASHINGTON — In a striking display of discord Thursday, leaders of the Senate’s health committee…
Opinion: More nurses: The smart way to save lives, money — and nurses
Although the 7,000 New York City nurses who went on strike this week reached a…
STAT+: Study finds heavier reliance on nurse practitioners, physician assistants after private equity takeovers
A new study suggests physician practices acquired by private equity rely more heavily on advanced…
Opinion: Certified nursing assistants do important work. They deserve to be paid a living wage for it
In mid-April 2020, as Covid-19 shutdowns and lockdowns were being put in place across the…
Opinion: The health care industry’s lax approach to nurses’ mental health needs to change
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the dire state of nursing has been grist…
STAT+: As health care faces nursing shortages, burned-out nurses are flocking to remote jobs
Burned out and fed up with their work conditions, nurses are leaving the bedside in…
STAT+: Nursing shortage at Mass. hospitals leads to multimillion-dollar costs
A widespread shortage of nurses at Massachusetts hospitals is only getting more extreme, with an…
Opinion: Listen: The double standard of discipline between nurses and physicians
For two decades, nurses have been considered the most trustworthy professionals in the country, above…
Opinion: Building resilience and well-being: keys to avoiding the worst of a looming shortage of health care workers
During the marathon of Covid-19, nurses and other health care workers have faced unprecedented levels…
Opinion: Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care
The chaos and crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic have forced remarkable transformations in the U.S….
Opinion: Florence Nightingale in the age of Covid-19
Last May marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. That her bicentennial…
Opinion: Breaths, deaths, and missed breaks: How counting defined my days as a pandemic nurse
I woke myself up the other morning counting out loud. Twenty-seven. Twenty-eight. Twenty-nine. Thirty. Rhythmic,…
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Opinion: Listen: Healing the healers: An advocate and a psychiatrist on clinicians’ mental health and burnout
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by Corey Feist and Wendy Dean…
Opinion: Listen: A nurse and a physician on harnessing the full potential of nurses
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by two members of the National…
Opinion: All states should harness nurses’ full potential
The U.S. health care system should learn many lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic. A key…
‘A wild year’: School nurses greatly expand role with Covid-19 vaccinations, contact tracing
Last September, as Covid-19 vaccine candidates were rapidly advancing, Katherine Park and six of her…
The Biden administration is making nursing schools pay for a government mistake amid Covid-19
WASHINGTON — The federal government miscalculated funding for hospital-based nursing schools for nearly two decades,…
Opinion: Crossing the threshold: violence against home visiting nurses
It’s a difficult time to be a nurse. It’s an even more difficult time to…
A ‘bad case of déjà vu’: New Jersey hospitals brace for Covid-19 surge, but hope this time will be different
The first round of treating Covid-19 patients in New Jersey was brutal. Victorine Long Njaka,…
Opinion: Go national to solve the country’s looming nursing shortage
Nurses need our support now more than ever as they manage the frontlines in the…
Opinion: The nursing science behind nurses as coronavirus hospital heroes
The coronavirus pandemic has given nurses a rare moment in the media spotlight. They are…
Opinion: Ventilators can save people with serious Covid-19. The people behind them are even more important
In mid-March, the day before I flew back to New York City to return to…
Opinion: I’m a nurse in a Covid-19 unit. My hospital’s leaders frighten me more than the virus
I’ve been a nurse for almost 10 years, working mainly on a hospital’s cardiac floor….
Nursing ranks are filled with Filipino Americans. The pandemic is taking an outsized toll on them
Debbie Accad, 72, a clinical nursing coordinator for the Detroit VA Medical Center, died from…
California resists push to lift limits on nurse practitioners during Covid-19 pandemic
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the demand for health care workers surges with the coronavirus case…
A nurse’s coronavirus routine: Recording videos she hopes her family will never need to watch
The words are familiar at first, a bedtime trope so dependable that it’s hard to…
‘A lose-lose situation’: Assisted living residents may see lapses in care during pandemic
Every day, a quiet army of aides fans out across the country to fight off…
‘It’s been kind of rough’: At the epicenter of the pandemic, a Seattle ICU nurse treats two patients at a time
Stephanie Bandyk is on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic: A registered nurse who…