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Nursing
While undergraduate enrollment stabilizes, fewer students are studying health care
Feb 2, 2023
Undergraduate college enrollment may be leveling off, but fewer students are choosing to study a fast-growing field for jobs: health care.
Hospitals explore virtual nursing to cover staffing shortages and fight burnout
by
Blake Farmer
Jan 11, 2023
With nurses facing burnout like never before, some hospitals are exploring remote work options that could keep experienced RNs on the job longer.
What do nurses have to say about the nursing shortage?
by
David Brancaccio
and Jarrett Dang
May 16, 2022
"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."
Guilty verdict for Tennessee nurse in case involving medical error has other nurses worried
by
Blake Farmer
Apr 26, 2022
RaDonda Vaught awaits sentencing for criminally negligent homicide. Her conviction is weighing heavily on a weary profession.
Pandemic price gouging complaints raise staff tensions with traveling nurses
by
Blake Farmer
Feb 15, 2022
Hospitals say that staffing agencies charge too much for providing traveling nurses. The nurses say they're the ones doing the heavy lifting.
Pandemic-fueled demand for traveling nurses creates growing earnings disparity
Jan 10, 2022
Pay for travel nurses is skyrocketing, making some staff nurses question why they stay.
Apprenticeship gives California health care workers a career boost
Oct 21, 2021
The program helps licensed vocational nurses who work in state prisons to become registered nurses.
For public good, not for profit.
High pay for traveling nurses a symptom and cause of staff shortages
by
Blake Farmer
Sep 7, 2021
Traveling RNs make far more money than full-timers in the same job, stirring frustration at hospitals. Governments often foot the bill.
The risks of going back to school can have economic rewards
Sep 28, 2017
Pam Palme, a nurse anesthetist in Colorado, shares her story of going back to school to pursue nursing.
Working as a nurse but wishing to be a mom
Sep 6, 2017
Joy O'Brien is a nurse practitioner who wants children, but with $2,100 a month in student debt, she can't afford to adopt.