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‘It's Dire': Pandemic Taking a Toll on Nurses' Mental Health
Last week, a nurse took their own life inside a South Bay hospital. Earlier this year, Stanford nurse Michael Odell walked out in the middle of his shift and never returned. His death has now inspired his friends to make a difference.
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Strained US Hospitals Seek Foreign Nurses Amid Visa Windfall
Many American hospitals are looking abroad for health care workers, saying they’re facing a dire shortage of nurses amid the slogging pandemic
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Medicare Shares Key Nursing Home Staffing Info for Consumers
Medicare says it’s shining a light on key markers for nursing home quality.
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‘Kind, Caring, Inspirational': Co-Workers Honor Beloved Nurse Killed in Bus Stop Attack
Co-workers gathered early Wednesday LAC-USC Medical Center to remember a kind, caring and dedicated nurse who was killed when she was attacked by a man as she waited for a bus in downtown Los Angeles.
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San Diego Nurses Dealing With Major Stress, Shortages
“We’re losing a lot of nurses that need to take care of us,” one RN told NBC 7’s Melissa Adan. “And now we have less nurses to take care of us.”
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Thousands of San Diego Kaiser Nurses, Health Care Workers Plan to Strike
About 21,000 healthcare workers are planning to strike against Kaiser Permanente for their wage proposals that are expected to impact more than 300 hospitals across Southern California.
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What To Know About Supply Chain Shortages Ahead of Christmas
This story was updated on Dec. 9, 2021, at 2:11 p.m. ET. Coping with the supply chain shortage, seen at grocery stores, car dealerships and more, has become a part of life in the pandemic. And even though we’re approaching our third calendar year with COVID, the 2021 shortages are showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, this Christmas…
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Nursing Schools See Applications Rise, Despite COVID Burnout
Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge
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Health Workers Once Saluted as Heroes Now Get Threats
Health care workers who were once saluted for saving lives in the COVID-19 outbreak are now being issued panic buttons and ditching their scrubs before going out in public to avoid harassment.
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San Diego Hospitals Face Staffing Shortages, Travel Nurses in High Demand
San Diego hospital leaders are reporting they are facing staffing shortages and are having to import talent from around the country to keep up their staff to patient ratios. While San Diego’s COVID-19 case rate is decreasing, hospital leaders here are still reporting having problems maintaining the staff they need to keep their hospitals running. “We’re less likely to...
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Nationwide Hospital Staffing Shortage
NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar spoke to a travel nurse about the tax of the coronavirus pandemic on nurses and staffing levels.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Takes a Toll on Local Nurses
Nurses are suffering burnout due to unrelenting stress from the pandemic, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda
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Unions Split on Vaccine Mandates, Complicating Biden Push
The labor movement is torn over vaccine requirements — much like the country as a whole — wanting to both support its political ally in Biden and protect its members against infection but also not wanting to trample their workers’ rights.
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Choir of Nurses Returns to ‘AGT' for a Performance That'll Move You to Tears
The health care heroes took the “America’s Got Talent” stage to follow up their Golden Buzzer moment with another unforgettable performance.
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Hospitals Run Low on Nurses as They Get Swamped With COVID
The surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. has caused a shortage of nurses and other front-line staff in virus hot spots that can no longer keep up with the flood of unvaccinated patients
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A Nurse Describes Her Harrowing Battle with PTSD After the First COVID-19 Wave
Cassandra Alexander, a certified nurse in the Bay Area of California, spent months watching patients die from COVID-19 before the “slow accretion of sorrow” left her deep in her own crisis with PTSD. Alexander, who wrote about her trauma in a recent op-ed in HuffPost, shares her story on LX News. If you, or someone you know, is in need...
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Japanese Pandemic Nurse, Boxer Gets Moment During Olympics Opening Ceremony
Boxer Arisa Tsubata may not have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, but she still had her moment during the Opening Ceremony on Friday: The middleweight boxer is also a nurse who cared for COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, and was showcased during the ceremony’s opening sequence.
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Local Health Care Workers Celebrate All Missed 2020 Holidays on One Special Night
The pandemic prevented many health care workers from celebrating any holidays during 2020, so one San Diego ICU doctor decided to make up for lost time in a big way.
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Local ICU Doctor Honors Fellow Health Care Workers with Celebratory Night
After a grueling year and a half due to the pandemic, local health care workers are realizing just how much they’ve missed out on. NBC 7’s Allie Raffa spoke with a local ICU doctor who honored his fellow health care workers with a celebratory night.
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New York Law Gives Nurses a Voice in Hospital Staffing Plans
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation requiring general hospitals in the state to seek input from nurses and other staff in creating staffing plans that are to include specific guidelines on how many patients each nurse is assigned