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News Articles: Nurses

Nurses Lisa Stambolis and Ashley Gresh of the Neighborhood Nursing team talk with Percy Jones. Members of the nursing team visit his apartment building weekly, and Jones credits them with easing his worries about recovering from a hernia surgery when he couldn't get a timely appointment with his doctor.

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  • Health

In Baltimore, nurses go door-to-door to bring primary care to the whole neighborhood

A cadre of Johns Hopkins nurses are adapting a model for primary care that's been successful in Costa Rica. They will visit every household in a Baltimore community to assess health care and social needs at least once a year.

June 11, 2024
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By:
  • Leslie Walker and
  • Dan Gorenstein
When Florence Nightingale was recruiting nurses, an accomplished nurse from Jamaica named Mary Seacole traveled to London but was repeatedly rejected. Seacole wrote: "Did these ladies shrink from accepting my aid because my blood flowed beneath a somewhat duskier skin than theirs? " Her experience is part of the new book <em>Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change the World.</em>

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  • Global Health

A history of nurses: They once had the respect they're now trying to win

In Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change the World, author Sarah DiGregorio tells how nurses had great stature centuries ago — and how they got pushed into the background.

September 27, 2023
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Hospital.

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  • News

Safer Hospitals Act wins approval from Senate committee after passing in the House

The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services approved of House Bill 383, the Safer Hospitals Act, in its meeting yesterday. The bill calls for stronger protections to ensure the safety of emergency health care workers and health care workers in a hospital.

March 16, 2023
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
British nurses picket outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London on Thursday. The nurses' union is asking for a 19% pay raise. Nurses, as well as postal workers, rail workers and some airport immigration officers, are staging walkouts over the holiday season. They are asking for pay increases as the U.K. faces nearly 11% inflation.

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  • World

Britain is seeing a wave of strikes as nurses, postal workers and others walk out

Nurses, postal workers and railway employees are all walking out this month in the U.K.'s largest series of labor actions in more than a decade. It's a major challenge to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

December 20, 2022
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
Tony Johnson sits on his bed with his dog, Dash, in the one-room home he shares with his wife, Karen Johnson, in a care facility in Burlington, Wash. on April 13, 2022. Johnson was one of the first people to get COVID-19 in Washington state in April of 2020. His left leg had to be amputated due to lack of wound care after he developed blood clots in his feet while on a ventilator.

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  • Health Care

For two years, this Washington island has grappled with the long reach of COVID

The virus hit Whidbey Island early in 2020, and photojournalist Lynn Johnson was there. A million deaths later, we return to see how the pandemic has subtly but indelibly altered life there forever.

May 18, 2022
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Lynn Johnson
Tony Johnson sits on his bed with his dog, Dash, in the one-room home he shares with his wife, Karen Johnson, in a care facility in Burlington, Wash. on April 13, 2022. Johnson was one of the first people to get COVID-19 in Washington state in April of 2020. His left leg had to be amputated due to lack of wound care after he developed blood clots in his feet while on a ventilator.

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  • Health Care

For two years, this Washington island has grappled with the long reach of COVID

The virus hit Whidbey Island early in 2020, and photojournalist Lynn Johnson was there. A million deaths later, we return to see how the pandemic has subtly but indelibly altered life there forever.

May 18, 2022
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Lynn Johnson
RaDonda Vaught listens to victim impact statements during her sentencing in Nashville. She was found guilty in March of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult after she accidentally administered the wrong medication.

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  • Health Care

Tennessee nurse convicted in lethal drug error sentenced to three years probation

RaDonda Vaught's prosecution was widely condemned by nurses, who said it set a dangerous precedent that would worsen the nursing shortage and make them less forthcoming about admitting mistakes.

May 13, 2022
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By:
  • Brett Kelman
Maurice Miller lies in bed in his room at a nursing home in Takoma Park, Md., on Thursday. The Biden administration is planning to establish a federal minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes as part of a broader push to improve care for seniors and people with disabilities.

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  • Business

Nursing home residents suffer from staffing shortages, but the jobs are hard to fill

To address the problem of poor care, President Biden is calling for a federal minimum staffing requirement in nursing homes. The nursing home industry says there aren't workers to fill the jobs.

April 06, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
The conviction of RaDonda Vaught in an accidental injection death has sparked fear and outrage among many nurses, who have been faced with long hours, mounting responsibilites and staffing shortages.

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  • Health Care

Why nurses are raging and quitting after the RaDonda Vaught verdict

The former Tennessee nurse faces prison time for a fatal medication mistake. Reaction from her peers was swift and fierce on social media and beyond ― and it isn't over.

April 06, 2022
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By:
  • Brett Kelman and
  • Hannah Norman
Close friends Joshua Paredes, Michael Walujo and John LeBlanc are working together to set up a crisis help line for nurses following the suicide of their friend Michael Odell in January.

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  • Health

A nurse's death raises the alarm about the profession's mental health crisis

After nearly two years of grueling shifts treating COVID patients, a group of nurses lost one of their closest friends to suicide. They're determined not to let others fall through the cracks.

April 01, 2022
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Operating room

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  • Health

Bill in Legislature targets dangerous 'medical smoke'

In operating rooms, the smoke created by surgery can be a health hazard for those breathing it in. Such “surgical smoke’’ is a byproduct of the thermal destruction of human tissue by the use of lasers or other devices.

March 28, 2022
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  • Andy Miller
GPB News NPR

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  • Health

As a nurse faces prison for a deadly error, her colleagues worry: Could I be next?

Former nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial on charges of reckless homicide. Her case raises consequential questions about how nurses use computerized medication-dispensing cabinets.

March 22, 2022
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  • Brett Kelman
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Terry England, R-Auburn, speaks to the House in Atlanta on Friday, March 5, 2021. England’s committee on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, passed a revised budget for the current year that includes higher pay for state employees and teachers and state income tax rebates.

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  • News

Georgia Senate seeks bigger raises for nurses, prison guards

Georgia state senators want prison guards and school nurses to get larger raises. They also want to set aside a big chunk of money to cover the state's share of an upcoming federal transportation program. Those are among the changes the Senate Appropriations Committee made Monday as it passed a revised budget for the year ending June 30.

March 01, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Nurse Sara Dean of Mount Juliet, Tenn., attends her daughter Harper's gymnastics practice. Dean spent nearly two years travelling the country as a nurse, gaining a much higher salary than she could at home.

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  • Health

For travel nurses, jobs at home can't come close to pay they get on the road

The pandemic pay for traveling nurses was too good to pass up for many RNs. But some are ready to settle down at home, and they're finding full-time jobs aren't keeping up with salary increases.

February 11, 2022
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By:
  • Blake Farmer
A grocery store worker sanitizes a shopping cart at a MOM's Organic Market in Washington, D.C., in April 2020.

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  • Business

Workers are calling out sick in droves, leaving employers scrambling

Employers from Macy's to United Airlines are having to adjust after skyrocketing omicron COVID cases have led large numbers of workers to call out sick.

January 18, 2022
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
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