Nursing

More nurses are asserting their innocence in the national degree scheme, saying their entanglement in the situation has damaged their careers and threatened their livelihoods, Newsweek reported May 12. 

With the public health emergency ended, the American Nurses Association is urging the Biden Administration and Congress to keep some legislation and healthcare resources in place.

Twenty-five organizations across the U.S. will receive a share of $78 million in grant funds that the Department of Labor has set aside to inject more resources and support into nursing programs, according to a May 11 press release.

Five of seven faculty members at the University of Mississippi (Jackson) Medical Center's Oxford-based accelerated Bachelor of Science in nursing program received pink slips on May 1 — in the middle of the rigorous program's one-year cycle, according to a…

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is no longer embedding training costs into nurse contracts, according to a May 9 report from NBC News. 

Workplace violence against nurses and healthcare workers has increased at rates that experts say are "alarming." Often, rates of violence are even higher for healthcare professionals who work in emergency departments, but new technology may be able to reduce these…

While Washington was the 40th U.S. jurisdiction to enact the Nurse Licensure Compact, which it did in April, 15 states and jurisdictions have not yet joined.

When the public health emergency draws to a close May 11, some patients could lose critical elements of care overnight, the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology warned in a May 9 news release.

For more than two decades, nursing has been rated at the top of the list of the "most honest and ethical professions" in the country, according to Gallup.

The turnover rate among first-year nurses is at an all-time high of about 32 percent, according to the "2023 NSI National Healthcare Retention" report. That's one of the drivers behind a one-year nurse residency program created by Dignity Health Global…