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Neysa King has just completed her graduate nursing year at 70 years old.
As more and more elderly Americans with dementia reside in assisted-living homes, states need to make sure they receive high-quality care.
A psychiatric nurse who deals with the homeless, the sickest and the most vulnerable people in post-pandemic Seattle reckons with the high cost of compassion.
Nursing students must complete 800 placement hours, which can mean turning down part-time paid work for sometimes up to 12 weeks.
This exhibition draws on 230 years of midwifery and nursing’s vast history and contemporary stories to acknowledge the immeasurable and collective contribution of nurses and midwives to Australian health care.
Major trained nurse shortage predicted if trainees unable to obtain and complete placements, which are required to graduate
Nurses would like to set the record straight on the hospital staffing crisis.
In the lead up to Christmas 1986, a battle was fought on the streets, in the hospital wards, and on the tram lines around Melbourne. Nurses, trained to care for the sick with no complaint or question, had had enough. Tired of overcrowded wards, poor pay and lack of career opportunity, they decided to take matters into their own hands.
Marion Richardson retired from nursing several years ago, but felt a call of duty to support Bendigo through the coronavirus pandemic.
Jenny McGee stood at the side of the British Prime Minister when he was hospitalised with COVID-19 last year. Now she has resigned, citing lack of government support for health care workers.
Being a nurse was already hard. But in the pandemic, it’s become almost impossible.
As nurses ourselves, we have never felt prouder to be nurses, and we advocate for services to properly care for their nurses in these difficult times. The dreadful trajectory of this pandemic has reinforced the utter dependence communities have on a skilled and resilient nursing workforce.
Maryland universities have allowed qualified nursing students to leave their programs early. Many are graduating onto the front lines of the pandemic.
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Assistance with school supplies and other essentials helped set a student up for college.
Melissa reported an alleged rape to the national medical practitioner regulator because she thought it was the right thing to do. Instead, she was investigated.
Location, not qualifications, could be the best bet for an understaffed rural healthcare sector and offer a path to restless local young men
Nightingale sought to ensure that the medical crisis she witnessed in the Crimean War would never again occur. Now, as we celebrate National Nurses Week, nursing is again in crisis amid the covid pandemic.
Since February 2020, half a million healthcare workers in the US have left the job. That’s the steepest rate of attrition the industry has ever seen.
The University of San Diego is rolling out virtual reality technology in its nursing curriculum to help prepare students for real-world clinical scenarios.
New nurse Kayla Hemara-Wahanui believes having Māori work in a Māori organisation is a given.
The WITT graduate is one of 42 nurses who walked straight into employment after completing the three-year bachelor’s degree at the end of last year.
The 100 per cent employment rate sees recent WITT nursing graduates in jobs across an array of sectors in the industry from medical, surgical, emergency, primary health care, mental health, elderly and intensive care and public health.
Now working for iwi Ngati Ruanui in Hāwera, Kayla said having a Māori voice within the organisation has meant people are able to thrive.
Across the country nurses are burnt out, exhausted and looking for new jobs, saying COVID-19 has only exacerbated workload pressures and staffing issues that existed long before the pandemic. Here's a look at the state of the workforce.
Hanson Robotics plans to revolutionize healthcare with its latest innovation: Grace, an AI-enabled android who can assist nurses by diagnosing and treating patients.
Offered by University of Minnesota. This course is designed for nurses who are drawn to practice in a different way – nurses who value ... Enroll for free.
America's nurses are running on empty almost one year into the pandemic. They've reused PPE, canceled PTO and worked extended shifts for employers they don't always feel value their safety. It's driven many nurses to quit.
Advancing nursing leadership, investing in nursing education, and providing support and resources for nurses around the world are key to addressing disease outbreaks and improving global public hea…
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