Nursing

Below are 10 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers. 

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Medical Center hired Jaines Andrades, DNP, BSN, as an environmental services worker 10 years ago. Today, Dr. Andrades is a nurse practitioner at the same hospital, reports CBS Boston News.

Filipino and Filipino American nurses are dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates, accounting for more than 30 percent of the 205 U.S. nurses who have died, though the group makes up just 4 percent of the total nurse workforce,…

Hospitals can't deliver excellent patient care with balanced outcomes without effective staffing. Before the emergence of COVID-19, dedicated nurses everywhere worked hard to deliver high-quality care for patients — many under difficult circumstances. In 2020, the job of the nurse…

About 58 percent of nurses who died of COVID-19 and related complications are nurses of color, a report from a prominent nurse union says.

A new bill signed into law Sept. 29 will allow nurse practitioners in California to practice medicine without the supervision of physicians, according to The Sacramento Bee.

Below are the stories of some nurses saving lives outside the workplace: 

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital increased its intensive care capacity 75 percent through the implementation of an alternative care model that converted general patient care units and perioperative spaces to ICUs and therefore required more critical care nurses.

A woman posing as a nurse in Tennessee received more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud, healthcare fraud, identity theft and practicing nursing without a license, according to a Sept. 23 release from the Eastern…

Two nurses were named to Time's Most Influential People of 2020 list, including a New York City nurse who treated her hospital's first COVID-19 patient, contracted the disease herself and recovered to return to work.