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About 200 workers and members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 picketed outside San Francisco General Hospital Feb. 25, calling on the hospital to hire more nurses, according to a Mission Local report.

New Jersey nurses continue to show their opposition to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield's OMNIA plans and alliance.

A worker at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., claims she was fired over her support for a ballot initiative that would cap compensation for the hospital's executives at $250,000, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

The Cleveland Clinic Louis Stokes Internship program, a newly established summer internship, will offer 100 high school freshman experience in non-clinical areas of healthcare, according to Crain's Cleveland Business.

Nurses aides, represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, and their supporters are slated to protest Feb. 25 in front of Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Hospital, according to a report from The Salinas Californian.

Sixty percent of new nurses quit their first job within the first six months due to the behavior of their co-workers, and nearly 50 percent of nurses believe that they will experience bullying at some time in their careers, according…

A recent report from UL's Integrated Health & Safety Institute ranks states based on workplace safety rates compared to the national average in 2012. 

In a recent whitepaper, Cornerstone OnDemand discusses the challenges of providing quality patient care in the face of talent shortages.

The University of Montana in Missoula has proposed a health and medicine initiative designed to help address the state's medical workforce needs, according to a Montana Public Radio report.

The Health Professionals and Allied Employees union, which represents 1,300 nurses at Woodbury, N.J.-based Inspira Health Network, including more than 30 involved in hospice care, claims IHN did not properly inform the union about planned changes to hospice services that affect…