Nursing

Below are 26 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers. 

Scripps Health is temporarily postponing some medical procedures because of significant staffing shortages and a jump in COVID-19 cases, the San Diego, Calif.-based system said Aug. 20, according to CBS News 8.

Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth is experiencing an uptick in assaults against nurses, particularly in the emergency department, reports NBC affiliate KYTV.

When emergency room nurse Brooke Johns has a day off, she still heads back to Las Vegas-based Southern Hill Hospital to visit with patients, talk and braid their hair, reports Good Morning America.

A Louisiana nurse who vaccinated 2,000 residents through a personal door-to-door effort was recognized with a $25,000 honorarium Aug. 17, The Advocate reports. 

About 88 percent of surveyed U.S. nurses are vaccinated against COVID-19, or plan to be vaccinated, according to survey findings from the American Nurses Association published Aug. 18. 

Ask any nursing leader about their greatest challenge and they'll likely point to staffing. If hospitals weren't already feeling the effects of a severe nursing shortage, a nationwide rise in hospitalizations fueled by the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant has…

A nurse practitioner in Florida will face healthcare fraud, mail fraud and money laundering charges for his alleged role in a $2.3 million dollar improper billing scheme, the Department of Justice said Aug. 16.

Dallas-based Parkland Health & Hospital System has had to transfer pregnant patients to other area hospitals during the last few weeks because of staffing challenges.

In 2008, CMS made a clerical error that resulted in an extra $300 million being distributed to 120 hospital-based U.S. nursing school programs, CBS affiliate WCIA reported.