Category: Nurses
Half of unvaccinated workers say they’d rather quit than get a shot – but real-world data suggest few are following through
But while it is easy and cost-free to tell a pollster you’ll quit your job, actually doing so when it means losing a paycheck you and your family may depend upon is another matter.
Rural Hospitals Can’t Find the Nurses They Need to Fight COVID
Across the country, thousands of hospitals are overwhelmed with critically ill patients, prompting many overburdened nurses to change careers or retire early. The shortages are particularly dire in rural areas, rural health experts say, because of the aging workforce and population, smaller salaries and intense workload.
Court ruling may embolden healthcare workers to call out safety issues
Decision could mean that hospitals and other employers will need to revise their policies barring workers from talking to the news media and posting on social media.
More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year
Nurses and support staff members died in far higher numbers than physicians.
‘Why Do I Put My Life on the Line?’ Pandemic Trauma Haunts Health Workers.
Health care workers across the country say they feel underappreciated by their employers and disillusioned with the medical profession.
‘I Wanted to Go in There and Help’: Nursing Schools See Enrollment Bump Amid Pandemic
Enrollment in baccalaureate nursing programs increased nearly 6%.
As Hospitals Fill With COVID Patients, Medical Reinforcements Are Hard to Find
The typical workaround for staffing shortages — hiring clinicians from out of town — isn’t the solution anymore
Health care workers wanted: A veteran needs you to work at a VA hospital
Huge vacancies in VA medical centers means that veterans are not getting the health care they need.
Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk
Dozens of nursing homes and hospitals ignored official guidelines to separate COVID patients, as a result staff became infected and some died.
Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19
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,
Widely Used Surgical Masks Are Putting Health Care Workers At Serious Risk
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.
Lost On The Frontline
“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.
She Came to New York to Help Fight COVID. She Walked Into a “War Movie.”
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.
‘It’s Like Walking Into Chernobyl,’ One Doctor Says Of Her ER
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.
Expired Respirators. Reused Masks. Nurses in the Nation’s Original Covid-19 Epicenter Offer Sobering Accounts of What Could Come.
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.