Demanding that the hospital industry invests in safe staffing and that President Biden fulfills his campaign promise to protect nurses and prioritize public health, National Nurses United (NNU), the largest RN union in the United States, is calling for nurses […]
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BILLINGS, Mont. — Before Mary Venus was offered a nursing job at a hospital here, she’d never heard of Billings or visited the United States. A native of the Philippines, she researched her prospective move via the internet, set aside
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Despite the burden placed on nurses during the pandemic, applications to nursing programs are up. Many millennials seek careers in nursing, looking to fill the vacated positions as baby boomers retire and today’s nurses leave healthcare due to burnout. In
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As emergency changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were made permanent, the past year saw significant progress toward increased independent practice authority for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), according to the Nurse Practitioner’s 34th Annual Legislative Update. “Relaxation of
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A new study shows that the labor market for the nursing workforce tightened throughout the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a period marked by falling employment and rising wages across the health care industry. The paper, “Nurse
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You’llnever again be as young as you were when you started reading this sentence. It’s the one thing we all have in common: aging. According to the California Department of Aging, By 2030, 10.8 million Californians will be an older
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If you’ve chosen nursing as a career path, you’re in good company! Nursing employment is expected to grow faster than the national average between now and 2030, and in 2020, enrollment in nursing programs increased 5.6 percent. The past two
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For their determination, courage, negotiating chops, and commitment to their patients and nursing excellence, this week surely belongs to the 700 nurses of St Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. Our Nurses of the Week are ready to “come home” after
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When your job involves taking care of others, it’s important not to forget about your own health and well-being. All too often, nurses and other health care workers are so focused on helping their patients that they neglect their own
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As the nurse staffing shortage in the Tampa Bay area is nearing crisis proportions, Florida nurse educators, hospital administrators, and health care officials met to confront the problem and plot a course of action. A spring 2021 survey by the
