As smoke from California's Camp Fire filled the cab of her car, Nichole Jolly called her husband for what she thought would be the last phone call of her life. "I said, 'I think I'm going to die. Tell the kids I love them. I'm not gonna make it home,'" Jolly, 34, a surgical nurse at Adventist Health Feather River Hospital, told NBC News on Sunday.
The path to nursing wasn’t easy for Ally Norris. She transferred between three different programs before finally earning her associate’s degree in nursing in 2017. But even after bouts of failure and rejection, Norris was determined to accomplish her dream.
As the Baby Boomer generation continues to age out of the workforce, the demand for health care professionals is expected to continue to grow, but there is some concern over whether enough people will be available to meet the need. Though the overall numbers are supposed to be met, a nursing shortage is expected to arise in some states at different times before 2030. The shortage is expected to hit different parts of the nation at different times, but in some places not at all.
Nurses at Palisades Medical Center have ratified a new three-year contract with Hackensack Meridian Health that provides salary increases for nearly 900 members and the addition of 28 nurses and other health staff at the North Bergen hospital, union officials said Monday.
Warning of a loss of decision-making power -- both in business and at the bedside -- hospital executives, nurses and business leaders opposed to Massachusetts ballot Question 1 rallied Thursday in Springfield.