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Category: Nurses

Coronavirus, Medical Education, Nurses

‘I Wanted to Go in There and Help’: Nursing Schools See Enrollment Bump Amid Pandemic

February 18, 2021

Enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs increased nearly 6%.

Lieutenant (junior grade) Natasha McClinton, a surgical nurse, prepares a patient for a procedure in the intensive care unit aboard the U.S. the hospital ship USNS Comfort. The ship cares for critical and non critical patients without regard to their COVID-19 status. Comfort is working with Javits New York Medical Station as an integrated system to relieve the New York City medical system, in support of U.S. Northern Command's Defense Support of Civil Authorities as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare Providers, Hospitals, Nurses

As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find

December 3, 2020

The typical workaround for staffing shortages — hiring clinicians from out of town — isn’t the solution anymore

Doctors, Healthcare Providers, Nurses, VA

Health care workers wanted: A veteran needs you to work at a VA hospital

November 11, 2020

Huge vacancies in VA medical centers means that veterans are not getting the health care they need.

Coronavirus, Hospitals, Nurses, Nursing Homes

Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk

September 14, 2020

Dozens of nursing homes and hospitals ignored official guidelines to separate COVID patients, as a result staff became infected and some died.

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Animal Health, Doctors, Nurses

Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19

August 6, 2020

Health care workers of color were more likely to care for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, more likely to report using inadequate protective gear,

Coronavirus, Doctors, Healthcare Providers, Hospitals, Nurses

Widely Used Surgical Masks Are Putting Health Care Workers At Serious Risk

April 28, 2020

The CDC recently said lower-grade surgical masks are “an acceptable alternative” to N95 masks, but critics say their use is almost certainly fueling illness among front-line health workers.

Coronavirus, Doctors, Healthcare Providers, Nurses

Lost On The Frontline

April 15, 2020

“Lost on the Frontline”, a Guardian and Kaiser Health News collaboration, aims to document the lives of health care workers in the U.S. who die from COVID-19.

Coronavirus, Emergency Medicine, Nurses

She Came to New York to Help Fight COVID. She Walked Into a “War Movie.”

April 14, 2020

My first day in the ER was unlike anything I’d ever witnessed: a mix of a TV show like “Grey’s Anatomy” and something out of a triage tent in a war movie.

Coronavirus, Doctors, Healthcare Providers, Nurses

‘It’s Like Walking Into Chernobyl,’ One Doctor Says Of Her ER

April 10, 2020

Health workers say they’re exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an overstretched health care system.

Coronavirus, Doctors, Healthcare Providers, Nurses

Expired Respirators. Reused Masks. Nurses in the Nation’s Original Covid-19 Epicenter Offer Sobering Accounts of What Could Come.

March 30, 2020

The complaints from Washington also show the increasing sense of fear, frustration and powerlessness many nurses and other medical workers feel as COVID-19 pummels the health care system.

Child Health, Doctors, Nurses

Retired Doctors And Nurses Don Scrubs Again to Join Coronavirus Fight

March 27, 2020

Anticipating a shortage of medical personnel to treat the influx of sick patients, officials put out a call for retired doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to work.

Nurses, University of Washington

Today’s stories in the news

January 3, 2020

Swedish/Providence nurses plan strike; Northwest Hospital changes name; Geriatrician shortage looms; Toddlers eating vaping liquids; Vegans have worse hangovers.

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