On a recent Thursday morning, John Hodges walked one of his older patients out the door. "God bless you for being here, John," the patient said, shaking the nurse practitioner's hand on his way out.
Ralls, about 30 miles east of Lubbock, sits in Crosby County and is on the edge of a West Texas medical desert, with limited services offered at Crosbyton Clinic Hospital, the only hospital in the county. Other resources are also being stretched thin due to nearby counties that lack healthcare access.
About 15,000 nurses in Minnesota walked off the job Monday to protest understaffing and overwork, marking the largest strike of private-sector nurses in U.S. history.
Slated to last three days, the strike spotlights nationwide nursing shortages exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic that often result in patients not receiving adequate care.
A nurse charged with six counts of murder after her Mercedes-Benz slammed into traffic at a busy Windsor Hills intersection last month accelerated to 130 mph just before the crash, according to new court documents.
An Eau Claire man physically assaulted four nurses while being treated as a patient at an Eau Claire hospital, police say. The 30-year-old patient was charged Thursday in Eau Claire County Court with four felony counts of bodily harm to a healthcare provider.
Front-line workers continue to weather crisis after crisis, from supply shortages, to a mental health epidemic, to an influx of patients sicker from delaying care.
The pandemic exposed just how deep racial inequities across the health care industry are, but how do we fight that? For students and staff at Emily Griffith Technical College, it starts with training.
This year, nursing classes are addressing racial inequities in healthcare more closely than ever before. This school is one of few in the nation training its students using manikins of color.