Five-figure signing bonuses, free housing, college tuition for employees and their children. Hospitals and other medical facilities are getting so desperate to recruit and retain nurses they're offering all sorts of pricey perks and incentives.
Complaining that nurses are sometimes too busy to take a break during their shifts or get an earned day off, a union representing 1,500 registered nurses at Virtua voted Tuesday to strike if necessary, after rejecting the health system's most recent offer at the bargaining table.
U.S. Justice Department officials on Tuesday sued Ozaukee County, alleging that county officials violated a former nursing assistant's religious rights by forcing her to get a flu shot.
Nobody would call RoseAnn DeMoro, who transformed the California Nurses Association into one of the state’s most powerful political forces and a national player, retiring. But on Sunday, she will retire from the organization she has led for 32 years, saying she leaves the union “100 percent” ready to fight its battles.
On a rare rainy night in Albuquerque, two dozen students are learning the proper way to care for older people. Teacher Liliana Reyes is reviewing the systems of the body — circulatory, respiratory and so on — to prepare them for an upcoming exam.
A Honolulu nurse has been awarded nearly $4 million after an image of a noose was taped to her locker and a racist note was left in her hospital mailbox.