Nurses

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.

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.

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.

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

After over a year of relying on masks for protection against the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now saying we can ditch the face coverings in most situations as long as we are vaccinated. Their announcement isn’t sitting well with some health care providers.

They sat 10 feet apart in their black graduation gowns. It’s usually a symbol of students who are ready for the real world. However, the 2020 San Diego State nursing graduates carried a lot of experience into the ceremony.

NBC 7’s Joe Little was there when 100 SDUS nursing students turned their tassels at an in-person ceremony on campus.

Many people have had a nurse who touched their lives in some way, especially over the past year, whether it was those who contracted COVID-19 or expecting moms in labor or if they had to go to the emergency room with a hurt or sick loved one.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are almost 3 million nurses working in the United States, making it the country’s largest health care workforce.

For the first time in a year, Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon has had zero COVID-19 patients in critical care. Shavon Albee, a nurse who manages the critical care unit, joined LX News to describe how it felt to reach that milestone after a year that tested her team in every way.

A permanent bond has developed among a group of nurses working in a COVID-19 intensive care unit. A bond they say will be with them forever in ink.

Demand keeps rising for healthcare workers during the pandemic, and one San Francisco tech company that originally created a platform to help place nurses in hospitals is now working to help nurses support each other.

Nurses are frightened by what people are doing, or not doing, during a coronavirus pandemic that has already killed more than 320,000 nationwide and shows no signs of slowing down.

The union representing registered nurses and other staff at three Hospital Corporation of America facilities in Southern California reached a tentative agreement Sunday with the company aimed at improving COVID-19 safety and averting a possible strike.

Nurses fighting the coronavirus pandemic are the heroes in a new Marvel comic book called “The Vitals: True Nurse Stories.” Sean Ryan, a Marvel writer, and Amanda Belcastro, a registered nurse who was featured in the comic, joined LX News to talk about why scrubs are the new capes.

Nurses at Palomar Health’s Poway campus rallied this morning to voice their disagreement with how the medical facility is handling its nurse-patient ratio.

A travel nurse working in California says more people would take COVID-19 seriously if they could see the suffering and death he witnesses every day. Grover Street joined LX News to discuss the grim reality he is experiencing in Southern California, as well as his own recent diagnosis with a mild case of COVID-19.

U.S. hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are trying to lure nurses and doctors out of retirement, recruiting students and new graduates who have yet to earn their licenses and offering eye-popping salaries in a desperate effort to ease staffing shortages.

Mercy Hospital is in the St. Louis, Mo., area, which is in danger of running out of hospital rooms for its most critical patients.

The first coronavirus immunizations could come as soon as Dec. 12, according to the head of the Federal Vaccine Development Program and healthcare workers will likely be involved in the first phase of recipients. But a study from UCLA and a poll from the American Nurses Association show some healthcare workers plan to delay taking it. “I’ve heard the term...