Imagine you or your loved one is sitting in a hospital bed, you need something so you ring the call bell and … wait, and wait, and wait for someone to arrive. Has this happened to you yet? Did it ...

For nearly 2 decades, only one state -- California -- governed the number of patients assigned to a hospital nurse. Recently, Oregon became the second. Advocates of nurse-to-patient ratios are hopeful ...

The types of ethical dilemmas reported by the oncology nurses fell into 3 main categories: (a) truth telling, (b) conflicting obligations, and (c) futility. Similar concepts were grouped into 4 ...

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new academic study says mandating nurse-to-patient ratios would save lives, improve overall outcomes for patients, and alleviate the staffing crisis in Ontario’s ...

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Oh) and Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Il.), co-chair of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on Aging and Families, have reintroduced a bill that would create ...

More than 15,000 nurses in Duluth and the Twin Cities recently launched contract negotiations with area hospitals. The Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA), who represents nurses with Aspirus St. Luke’s ...

For every additional patient assigned to a medical-surgical nurse in Pennsylvania, there is an associated 8% increase in fatality risk within 30 days, according to a study published April 30 in ...