Nursing

Many colleges and universities are using state funding to recruit and retain students, as well as instructors, to boost nursing degree graduates and fill job openings in the state.

Undergraduate college enrollment may be leveling off, but fewer students are choosing to study a fast-growing field for jobs: health care.

With nurses facing burnout like never before, some hospitals are exploring remote work options that could keep experienced RNs on the job longer.

"There really is not a staffing shortage per se," said National Nurses United president Deborah Burger. "There's a shortage of nurses willing to put their lives and their license and patients' lives at risk."

RaDonda Vaught awaits sentencing for criminally negligent homicide. Her conviction is weighing heavily on a weary profession.

Hospitals say that staffing agencies charge too much for providing traveling nurses. The nurses say they're the ones doing the heavy lifting.

Pay for travel nurses is skyrocketing, making some staff nurses question why they stay.

The program helps licensed vocational nurses who work in state prisons to become registered nurses.

Traveling RNs make far more money than full-timers in the same job, stirring frustration at hospitals. Governments often foot the bill.

Pam Palme, a nurse anesthetist in Colorado, shares her story of going back to school to pursue nursing.