Nursing

Most health systems have rules meant to keep fatigue in check: caps on consecutive shifts, minimum rest between them, limits on overtime. But those safeguards stop at a single employer’s walls. When a nurse hits the ceiling at one hospital…

San Francisco-based UCSF Health has received the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation’s 2026 Employer Recognition Award. UCSF Health representatives were presented with the award May 15 at the Oncology Nursing Society’s annual meeting, according to a June 3 news release from…

First-time, U.S.-educated candidates passed the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses at an 86.6% rate in 2025, with results ranging from 99.4% in Vermont to 78.6% in Florida. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s annual “NCLEX Examination…

Ohio became the 27th state to opt out of Medicare physician supervision requirements for certified registered nurse anesthetists. The change came with the passage of House Bill 52, which removed the requirement for CRNAs to practice under supervision. The bill…

Nurses with disabilities earned 12.2% lower annual wages than nurses without disabilities, even after accounting for demographic characteristics and hours worked, according to a study published June 27 in Health Affairs Scholar. Here are 4 things to know:

The national nurse faculty shortage is a growing issue with which hospitals, health systems and states are grappling. Currently, universities and health systems are opening and expanding their nursing programs to meet the demand of students seeking to enter the…

Conversations about closing nursing skill gaps tend to start with the new nurse: more simulation hours, a longer orientation, a slower ramp-up to a full patient load. A three-year, $75 million grant administered by the Arizona State Board of Nursing…

Certified registered nurse anesthetists in Vermont can now deliver anesthesia care without physician supervision. In a July 2 letter, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott told CMS the state will opt-out of federal physician supervision requirements, making it the 26th state to…

Health systems are squandering the research potential of nurses who split their time between the bedside and the lab, a Penn Nursing scholar argued in a letter published July 4 in The Lancet. Kathryn Connell, PhD, RN, an assistant professor…

At Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System, nurses are an integral part of AI tool co-design and implementation, especially the skeptics and hesitant users. If front-line workers are not a part of AI tool co-design and implementation, there is a…