The Oregon Nurses Association announced Friday that more than 3,000 of its members will hold a three-day strike against Providence Health & Services, starting at 6 a.m. June 18.
Nurses working for the Department of Veterans Affairs rallied in downtown Washington, D.C., on Thursday to call attention to staff vacancies and what they describe as overwhelming workloads at medical facilities across the country.
A law passed last year that requires gradually more stringent nurse and certified nursing assistant (CNA) staffing ratios at Oregon hospitals is prompting a flood of complaints to the state agency charged with hospital oversight.
Amid a critical shortage of physicians throughout the U.S. and an increase in the number of nurse practitioners with doctorates, nursing groups are pushing to expand what certain nurses can do without doctors’ supervision.
A recent study conducted during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic sheds light on the factors influencing nurses’ decisions to continue or leave their jobs.