Workforce

Personal finance website Bankrate.com ranked two medical/health fields of study among the top 10 most valuable for college students.

Phoenix-based Banner Health will host multiple career open houses to fill 1,300 positions in Arizona and 200 positions in Colorado and other regions.

Television ads from both sides of the proposed November ballot initiative to mandate nurse staffing ratios in Massachusetts hospitals feature arguments from nurses, The Boston Globe reported.

A bipartisan group of senators led by Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., introduced the Health Care Staffing Improvement Act Sept. 6, which seeks to improve clinical staffing at Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities,  KTVZ.com reports.

Healthcare added 33,200 jobs in August, with hospitals contributing 8,200 to that total, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

California's growing nurse practitioner workforce is essential to filling shortages of primary care physicians, but nurse practitioners are not located where they're needed most, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Here are 20 hospitals and health systems that have posted job listings seeking nurses in the last week.

A 2014 Massachusetts law mandating patient-to-nurse staffing ratios in intensive care units statewide resulted in nurse staffing increases but not improved patient outcomes, according to a study published in Critical Care Medicine.

With a prison record and inconsistent work history, William Glover-Bey, 61, had a tough time finding a steady job to provide a stable environment for his five children. However, he learned of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System's on-the-job adult internship…

Here are 20 hospitals and health systems that have posted job listings seeking nurses in the last week.