Category: Nursing

The University of Houston College of Nursing said it will use a $20 million gift it received to help replenish the workforce in that area.

A half-billion-dollar investment in California’s community nursing schools would double the state’s capacity to graduate new RNs, according to the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals. 

A shortage of nurses at NYC Health + Hospitals is leading to more reliance on temporary nurses and higher staffing costs, New York’s state comptroller said May 4. 

International recruiting has emerged as a popular solution to the ongoing nursing shortage, but the strategy fails to address the underlying issues fueling the staffing crisis, three nursing experts wrote in a May 4 commentary published in Health Affai…

The University of Maryland School of Nursing has received a $7 million gift that will fund 218 nursing scholarships over the next four years, the Baltimore-based school said May 3. 

Nurses have a higher rate of suicide than the general population and often go without mental health treatment due to stigma and regulatory requirements, Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, a nurse scientist at the University of California San Diego, said in a May …

A nurse at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Mich., delivered a baby who arrived earlier than planned in the facility’s parking lot May 2, according to a report from local CBS affiliate WLNS. 

Enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs fell 1.4 percent last year, ending a 20-year period of enrollment growth, new data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing shows. 

If you ask a nurse leader why they moved away from the bedside and into leadership, there is a good possibility they will give a version of this answer: “Because I wanted to make more of an impact.”

What do you get when you pair an experienced nurse — one who has been there, done that and has seen it all — with a new nursing school graduate?