Five weeks into her contract with Aya Healthcare, which calls itself the largest health-care staffing agency in the U.S., nurse Hannah Bailey was told her hourly pay would be cut by more than 40%. Weeks later, her pay was cut again. It was now 60% less than she had expected.
She said it was less per hour than what she was making before she had signed up to travel, with all the extra hardships and costs that traveling entailed.
Portland, Oregon nurses are warning of the mass amounts of fentanyl coming into the Portland-metro area.
"From the reports we're seeing, mass produced in China and in labs in Mexico and it's being brought up across the border in huge amounts," said Tracy Moore, an emergency room nurse at Providence.
More than two-thirds of nurses at Ascension Seton Medical Center voted to unionize this week, becoming the largest private-sector hospital in Texas to do so.
The Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has opened its new $20.6 million Emory Nursing Learning Center, a 70,000-square-foot expansion that features state-of-the-art simulation and professional development space designed to prepare students to engage in interactive technology and experiential learning environments.
The ENLC was created to address the nursing shortage in the country and serves students of all levels, from undergraduates to continuing education students and advanced practice nursing professionals.
The University of Nebraska at Kearney has announced a new admissions program designed to train more rural nurses in the state.
The program will guarantee UNK students who meet certain requirements a spot in the University of Nebraska Medical Center's nursing program on the Kearney campus.
Twenty-four hours after a nurse was brutally stabbed in the lobby of Mission Community Hospital in Panorama City, much is still unknown about the attacker or why he targeted the nurse.
The nurse, who has not been identified at this time, is said to be in stable condition, but her attacker is still loose.