Nursing

The U.S. Labor Department invested $80 million of funding in support of nursing training programs Oct. 3.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center's College of Nursing is extending a partnership with Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare to assist students in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

Addressing the nursing shortage, which has been exacerbated by COVID-19, begins with acknowledging how much nurses have been undervalued, Leana Wen, MD, wrote for The Washington Post Sept. 28.

Here are four nurses who have made headlines for their leadership efforts on and off the job since Sept. 19: 

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health and the Loyola University New Orleans College of Nursing and Health will open a $1.9 million nursing simulation laboratory Oct. 1. 

Nursing schools are enacting changes to their programs to meet the high demand for nurse practitioners, Fortune reported Sept. 27. 

Medical City Healthcare affiliate Galen College of Nursing plans to open a new nursing school campus in North Texas, according to a Sept. 27 news release.

A chain of primary care clinics in Minneapolis is responding to the nation's physician shortage with a unique model: staffing nurse practitioners only, Medscape reported Sept. 23.

Three hospitals received Magnet designation for the first time in August, while another five were redesignated, according to the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Here are five moves from nurses unions across the country that Becker's has covered since Aug. 31: