Nurses

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...

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming heard from a nursing union representative about the hesitancy from some health care workers about taking early vaccines.

Across the city, more than 1,000 people per day are testing positive and the city’s major hospitals are overrun with severely ill and dying El Pasoans. Hundreds of health care workers have flown into El Paso to pick up shifts from exhausted doctors and nurses and to staff tent hospitals erected in parking lots.

A Utah man battling coronavirus was unable to thank his caretakers because he was intubated, but found another way to express his deep gratitude.

An ICU travel nurse battling COVID-19 on the frontlines in Michigan says she and her co-workers are watching people who didn’t believe in the virus and failed to take precautions die every day. Lydia Mobley joined LX News to share her grim experience and send a warning to families planning to gather for the holidays.

A San Diego Intensive Care Unit nurse said she went from fitness competitions to struggling to walk following her diagnosis with COVID-19.

A San Diego woman went from fitness competitions to struggling to walk following her diagnosis with COVID-19, reports NBC 7’s Melissa Adan.

U.S. hospitals are scrambling to hire more nurses as the coronavirus pandemic surges, leading to stiff competition and increased costs.

A Michigan nursing assistant contracted coronavirus from a patient and unknowingly spread it to her family before realizing she was sick. After her husband suffered serious complications, she’s now on mission to save his life by donating her kidney.

A medical team at a southwestern Louisiana hospital worked through the night to care for 19 tiny babies as Hurricane Laura slammed the region

North County nurses are slated to join a nationwide protest on Wednesday to call for more personal protective equipment and other coronavirus pandemic-related issues.

Local nurses are protesting outside Palomar Medical Center in Escondido as part of a nationwide movement calling for more safety measures and personal protective equipment.