When we consider the challenges we face in our health care system, lunch breaks and rest breaks are noted, but during daily ...

I stepped away for a moment to grab supplies, she cornered me in the hallway and accused me of ignoring her father.

Good discussion on the key role that nurses play in helping patients heal. The reality that was not discussed was that nurses are in short supply, they do 12 hour shifts that are exhausting and ...

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The past contract negotiation wins for the union nurses at Geisinger Wyoming Valley have been a positive step for healthcare in the area. Besides having a more fair compensation for the valuable ...

Editor: Geisinger Wyoming Valley is facing a crisis as registered nurses leave at unprecedented rates. A combination of long-standing challenges — exhaustion, under staffing, burnout ...

Our health care is failing. I was a patient in hospital for six months last year. As a retired nurse, I was quite surprised how nursing care has changed. The waiting for surgery has been way too long.

At the risk of offending my nurse practitioner colleagues, I would suggest that Thomas Lee might have had a different outcome had he been seen by a physician (“A trip to urgent care almost ...

Those are just some of the shocking revelations in a report published on Thursday by the Royal College of Nursing, a British nursing union. In the report, nurses described an overcrowding crisis ...

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Patients are dying in corridors and pregnant women are miscarrying in side rooms as overwhelmed hospitals struggle to cope, nurses say. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said evidence provided by ...