Nurses

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.

Many American hospitals are looking abroad for health care workers, saying they’re facing a dire shortage of nurses amid the slogging pandemic

Medicare says it’s shining a light on key markers for nursing home quality.

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.

“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.”

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.

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…

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

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.

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...

NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar spoke to a travel nurse about the tax of the coronavirus pandemic on nurses and staffing levels.

Nurses are suffering burnout due to unrelenting stress from the pandemic, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda

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.

The health care heroes took the “America’s Got Talent” stage to follow up their Golden Buzzer moment with another unforgettable performance.

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

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...

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