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News Articles: nursing

Nurse manager Danielle DiLella sits in her office, with a long to-do list on her whiteboard behind her.

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These nurse managers were burnt out. Then their hospital gave them a 4-day workweek

Since the pandemic, hospitals have seen soaring turnover among clinical managers who oversee teams of nurses. Now some hospitals, including AtlantiCare in New Jersey, have introduced a four-day workweek.

June 27, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
Columbus State University nursing students gather around “Victoria,” the mannequin mom that’s part of the new mother-baby simulation lab at CSU’s School of Nursing. 03/28/2024 Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com

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  • News

CSU leaders join with Miracle Riders to celebrate opening of mother-baby simulation lab

A new lab gives Columbus State University nursing students the opportunity to train on mother-baby simulation mannequins with lifelike movements, facial expressions, and responses. The lab is named in honor of Dr. Cecil F. Whitaker, M.D., a retired OB-GYN physician.

April 02, 2024
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  • Mike Haskey
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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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe speaks at a news conference in Miami on Wednesday about a network of nursing school operators, centered in South Florida, who allowed students to buy diplomas without the proper training.

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  • National

25 people in Florida are charged with a scheme to get fake nursing diplomas

The defendants allegedly took part in a scam that sold more than 7,600 fraudulent nursing degree diplomas from three Florida-based nursing schools, according to recently unsealed federal indictments.

January 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital strike outside the hospital on Monday in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York City.

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  • National

New York City nurses end strike after reaching a tentative agreement

After three days on the picket line, more than 7,000 nurses are returning to work at the city's biggest hospitals with the promise of "concrete, enforceable safe staffing ratios," their union said.

January 12, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Nursing is one of the top jobs that requires only a 2-year degree

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  • Health

Squeezed by temp nurse costs, hospital systems create their own staffing agencies

An increasing number of hospital systems like Allegheny Health Network have created in-house staffing teams to cope with the pandemic-fueled nursing shortage — and try to beat private temp staffing agencies at their own game. 

December 16, 2022
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  • Andy Miller
Toni Ivey holds her one-year-old baby, Finn, at Liberty Regional Medical Center in Hinesville, Ga. Ivey was admitted to the hospital with high-blood pressure and a risk of cardiac complications at one week postpartum.

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  • Health

Web-based apps will offer a simple way for doctors to provide postpartum care for Georgia moms

By remotely monitoring and educating new moms after they go home, providers are catching potentially fatal conditions, like heart failure and stroke.

December 12, 2022
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  • Sofi Gratas
Nursing students in the new The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

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  • Health Care

New Emory program trains nurses via simulation and connects rural areas to care

The new Emory Nursing Learning Center in downtown Decatur is a $20.6 million, 70,000-square-foot expansion featuring state-of-the-art simulation and professional development space that will enable students to be the next generation of nurse leaders.  

September 22, 2022
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  • Ellen Eldridge
RaDonda Vaught and her attorney, Peter Strianse, listen as verdicts are read at her trial in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, March 25. The jury found Vaught, a former nurse, guilty of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult in the death of a patient to whom she accidentally gave the wrong medication.

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  • Health

Former nurse found guilty in accidental injection death of 75-year-old patient

RaDonda Vaught's conviction could lead to years in prison. It's a rare case of a medical mistake being deemed a crime, and many worry it will have a chilling effect on the entire nursing profession.

March 25, 2022
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  • Brett Kelman
RaDonda Vaught, a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse charged in the death of a patient, listens to opening statements during her trial in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, March 22.

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  • Health

In nurse's trial, witness says hospital bears 'heavy' responsibility for patient death

Nashville, Tenn., nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial for reckless homicide for giving the wrong medication to a patient at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

March 25, 2022
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  • Brett Kelman
In this Oct. 7, 2016 photo, a nurse provides assistance to the surgical staff at the Dr. Isaac Gonzalez Mart

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  • News

Georgia hospitals are relying on travel nurses to survive. But they can’t afford it forever

Lawmakers are wrestling with how to bolster the state’s health care workforce that experts say has dwindled for a variety of reasons — from burnout under the crush of COVID to fewer students entering the field as older professionals retire.

March 25, 2022
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  • Riley Bunch
Reeny Pereira had been a licensed nurse in Maryland for years. But when she moved to Pennsylvania, that state wouldn't recognize her license. Pereira had to wait five months for a new Pennsylvania license.

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  • Health Care

Nurses are frustrated by months-long delays to get licensed in some states

Nurses trying to practice in Pennsylvania have some of the longest waiting times in the nation. After wading endlessly through red tape, some have given up and left, worsening the staffing shortage.

March 23, 2022
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  • Brett Sholtis
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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  • Blake Farmer
Nurses check on a patient in a Jonesboro, Ark., ICU in August when the delta variant sparked yet another surge of serious COVID-19 cases in the region. The pandemic has only added to a longstanding nursing shortage in the U.S., statistics show.

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  • Health

The U.S. needs more nurses, but nursing schools don't have enough slots

Across the country, hospitals are desperate for RNs and specialty nurses. Yet, paradoxically, the nursing pipeline has slowed, with educators retiring or returning to clinical work themselves.

October 25, 2021
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  • Yuki Noguchi
Nurse treating patient

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  • Health Care

Facing 'Worst Ever' Demand For Nurses, Some Hospitals Offering Unprecedented Bonuses

Some health systems in the state are paying bonuses of more than $10,000 to attract nurses. And Piedmont Healthcare, which is rapidly becoming Georgia’s biggest health system, said it has offered bonuses of up to $30,000, a figure that has startled local health industry officials.

May 27, 2021
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  • Andy Miller
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