Southcoast Health and UMass Dartmouth launched an educational program for high school students in the community called Nurse Camp.
The camp is a program designed to introduce local high school students to careers in nursing and healthcare through hands-on experiences, clinical shadowing and the chance to learn from experts in the field through panel discussions.
For the first year, there were 12 total participants, including eight students from New Bedford High School and four students currently enrolled in the UMass Dartmouth Nursing Program.
Throughout the three-day event hosted at both the UMass Dartmouth and St. Luke's Hospital campuses, the students met with numerous healthcare providers, asked questions, and participated in a Stop the Bleed Training Event in the hospital's simulation lab.
A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people, the tribe said in a statement. A Beechcraft King Air 300 from the CSI Aviation company left Albuquerque, New Mexico, with two pilots and two healthcare providers, according to the FAA and CSI Aviation. It crashed in the early afternoon near the airport in Chinle, about 300 miles northeast of Phoenix.
For all the debate about artificial intelligence in health care, one quietly transformative shift is taking place not through machines, but through video calls.
A growing number of U.S. hospitals are now using virtual nurses to handle admissions and discharges remotely.
The promise? Relief for burnt-out bedside nurses, better care coordination and fewer patients bouncing back to the hospital within weeks.
About 1,000 nurses at Magee-Womens Hospital are set to decide whether they’d like to be represented by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania later this month.
The organizing effort at one of the region’s leading labor and delivery centers is the latest in a growing labor movement among health care professionals in Pennsylvania. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board set voting dates for Aug. 19 and 23 for the 1,000 nurses at Magee. UPMC, which owns the hospital, said in a statement Monday that the health system “encourages all eligible employees to vote so that their voices will be heard.”
When two nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital posted on social media recently that they’re being run ragged and patient care is being strained by the Pittsburgh health system giant’s staffing practices, it highlighted a long-running national debate over the right patient-to-nurse ratios. UPMC officials dispute allegations that their policies are a problem. 'Scheduling the right number of nurses to staff our units is a top priority for UPMC Magee and we continue to invest in building the pipeline for new nurses as well as focused recruitment and retention efforts,' spokesman Paul Wood said in a statement Monday. 'Our approach to staffing is flexible and evidence-based in evaluating shift to shift circumstances.' Appropriate staffing has emerged as a wedge in SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania's longstanding efforts to organize Magee-Womens' nurses after the union's failure in 2023 to have hospital staffing minimums baked into state legislation, which Gov. Josh Shapiro supported. Only California and Oregon have such mandates.
A nurse staffing shortage could cause Butler County to shut down its WIC program, which currently has more than 660 cases.
That’s why Butler County commissioners approved a $10,000 signing bonus for full-time nurses at the health department. The health department currently has two open positions and has been dealing with its nursing shortage since January.