Nurses

Nurses are feeling first-hand the effects of rising cases and have a request for San Diegans. NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar reports.

As the number of positive COVID-19 cases skyrocket and hospitalizations increase in San Diego County, front-line nurses who are caring for patients are imploring residents to follow public health orders, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda.

Nurses at Tri-City Medical Center voiced their concerns about what they are calling unsafe conditions and mismanagement during a protest on Friday outside the hospital.

Nurses at the Tri-City Medical Center are protesting the leadership of a chief nurse accused of mismanagement.

Nurses at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside are planning a protest to voice their concerns of alleged mismanagement and unsafe conditions.

They’ve been on the front lines of every major medical battle since the days of Florence Nightingale. These days, nurses find themselves face-to-face with a global pandemic. The coronavirus is so dangerous, and the nurses take their duties so seriously that some have decided to self isolate away from their families. May 12 is International Nurses Day and the birthday…

May 12 is International Nurses Day and the birthday of Florence Nightingale, who is considered to be the mother of modern nursing, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

Thanks to thousands of local volunteers, about 300,000 pieces of once-defective face masks can be used to protect medical staff at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19.

As COVID-19 has infected more than 1 million Americans, nurses working on the front lines with little protective support have made the gut-wrenching decision to step away from their jobs, saying that they were ill-equipped and unable to fight the disease and that they feared for not only their own safety but also that of their families.

“It’s definitely a challenging time.” Some people might consider that an understatement, but Megan Medina takes it in stride. The infectious disease nurse spends her days with three other nurses patrolling the halls of Rady Children’s Hospital making sure medical providers have what they need to fight and protect against the coronavirus; know how to use personal protective equipment;...

A small group of nurses are now in charge of making sure Rady Children’s Hospital is safer than ever, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

A parade of love was held on National Nurses Day for the 400 nurses who work for a senior living community in San Diego.

A parade of love and gratitude was held for the nurses who work for St. Paul’s Senior Services in San Diego.

Ward is a COVID-19 ICU nurse at Sharp Memorial Hospital in Kearny Mesa, who has been struck by how isolating it can be for those who are infected with the disease.

NBC 7’s Catherine Garcia spoke to a nurse who is connecting with patients during a time when their families cannot.

Some hospitals are opening food pantries or makeshift grocery stores inside their facilities to help staff who don’t have time, don’t want to or can’t afford to go to a grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic.

Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the novel coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did a tremendous amount of handwashing.

Anyone who feels symptoms and may be waiting for their COVID-19 test results should self-quarantine, but what happens if you live with a high risk family member and can’t quarantine in your own home? Magdalena Robles says she loves being a nurse but she now fears that she’s a potential patient. “The tightness of the chest, I have not...

Maeleigh Soper, a travel nurse based at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, sat and cried with one of her young patients last month.

Nurses at UC San Diego Health held a vigil on Sunday in remembrance of their colleagues worldwide who died treating coronavirus patients as they expressed concerns that without enough PPE, they, too, could lose their own lives.