Hospitals and Healthcare

Nurses by the dozen rang into my program last week after news broke of a doctor accidentally giving four times the proper dose of the Pfizer vaccine, writes Virginia Trioli.

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.

Last summer, when England's first peak of the coronavirus pandemic had subsided, Fazilah, an ICU nurse at a central London hospital, sat down to write her resignation letter.

Nurses are sexualized by our culture and interactions with patients can often turn predatory. Masks have given me a reprieve gazes and comments.

The state's hotel quarantine program has been blamed for Victoria's second wave but Maree White, who worked as a nurse during quarantine at the Marriot, wants to talk about what went right.

Frontline healthcare workers are among the thousands of new cases of coronavirus in Victoria, and they have a warning for the rest of us.

On International Nurses Day the BBC spoke to four nurses on four continents about fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

I've seen so many nurses completely burn out in the past two years. It can be incredibly isolating — but we're getting through the struggle together. 

The nurses union believes Gillian “Jill” Dempsey’s death could be the first COVID-19 fatality of a Victorian hospital worker.

Highly skilled nurses say they are frustrated they have been locked out of the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out in Australia due to a government requirement that they must be supervised in order to administer the vaccine.

When Prime Minister Scott Morrison received his COVID-19 vaccine, the cameras were eager to capture the doctor giving him the shot. Less in the public eye was the nurse who administered Australia’s very first vaccination.

The Philippines will let thousands of its health care workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate coronavirus vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Maryland universities have allowed qualified nursing students to leave their programs early. Many are graduating onto the front lines of the pandemic.

Nurses working in intensive care and emergency departments throughout Melbourne say it is frustrating to hear members of the public complain about wearing light masks for brief periods, when they are forced to wear uncomfortable PPE for hours a day.

I'm also very thankful and grateful to the team of incredible nurses who I had the honour of working alongside.

We have supported each other and together have made an incredible difference to many people's lives, and served our community to the best of our ability.

I'm so proud to be a nurse.

One more thing: Please wash your hands, stay at home, and look after each other.