Hospitals nationwide are trying to address nurse shortages by hiring new graduates. However, becoming a nurse has become more challenging, narrowing the pipeline for new nurses, NPR reported Oct. 25.

Ballad Health announced Oct. 25 a $10 million commitment to creating the Appalachian Highlands Center for Nursing Advancement at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn.

Some schools have launched innovative nursing programs and partnerships to address nursing shortages persisting around the country.

Nurses are more likely to have suicidal thoughts than other members of the U.S. workforce and are less likely to tell anyone about it, according to a study published in the American Journal of Nursing.

Twenty-five percent of nurses sampled in an Oct. 22 survey from the Kentucky Nurses' Association indicated it was likely they would leave their current positions in the next three months. 

As systemwide chief nursing officer of Renton, Wash.-based Providence, Sylvain "Syl" Trepanier, DNP, RN, oversees a team of 48,000 nurses across the 51-hospital system.

More than two-thirds of nurses have reported experiencing stress, exhaustion and frustration over the past two weeks, according to an Oct. 14 survey from the American Nurses Foundation, the American Nurses Association's philanthropic arm.

A former nurse at Tyler, Texas-based Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital and Christus Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler was found guilty Oct. 19 of capital murder, NBC reported. 

Registered nurses from across the U.S. took to the National Nurses United convention Oct.12-14 to pass resolutions for society in light of the pandemic: a society based on care focusing on workers’ rights, Medicare for All, global health and vaccine equity, and racial and gender justice, according to an Oct. 15 release from the union.

Below are 22 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers. 

Charles Beene, RN, recently celebrated a milestone anniversary — working as a nurse at University of Texas Health for 50 years.

Increasing salaries for nurses to closely mirror clinical salaries and supporting new investments in nurses' mental health were among the ideas presented Oct. 7 by an Oregon nurses union to improve retention in the field, according to statements emailed to Becker's.

Colleges around Rhode Island are experiencing nursing faculty shortages that are exacerbating the staff shortages at hospitals around the state, according to an Oct. 8 WPRI-TV report. 

Multiple healthcare leaders in Nebraska testified before a legislative panel examining healthcare staff shortages, urging the state to help address the current conditions, ABC affiliate KETV reports.

Sandra Lindsay, RN, a nurse who made history last year as the first American vaccinated against COVID-19, received her booster dose at Long Island Jewish Medical Center Oct. 6, reports ABC affiliate WABC-TV.

Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn., will offer an accelerated 16-month nursing program to help fill nursing shortages in the state, according to St. Paul, Minn., ABC affiliate KSTP 5 on Oct. 5.

A California law signed Oct. 1 will require all nursing schools and programs to incorporate implicit bias training into their curriculum, and hospitals to implement evidence-based programs on the matter into new graduate training.

National Nurses United, the largest organization of nurses in the U.S., called on the Federal Trade Commission in an Oct. 4 press release to investigate contracts many hospitals require newly hired nurses to sign as terms of employment, but which the union says can lead to harsh burdens. 

Some nursing students who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are struggling to complete their clinical training and degrees, Kaiser Health News reported Oct. 4. 

Below are 22 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers.