A former nurse has filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against UPMC, claiming that health system has become a monopoly that can dictate wage scales and cut healthcare services.
As roughly 600 unionized nurses employed at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children went on strike on Sunday, a temporary workforce made up of some of the top children’s hospitals around the country stepped in to acclimatize themselves to the medical center’s procedures and patients.
While the demand for full-time registered and licensed vocational nurses in Texas is projected to soon exceed the supply, there’s a growing surplus of nurse practitioners, according to research from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services.
The American Organization of Nursing Leadership has completed a five-part longitudinal study on the challenges facing nurse leaders, and the results have revealed a significant portion of them might already have one foot out the door.