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Nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals went on strike Monday, potentially leading to disruptions in care around emergency room visits and childbirth, after lengthy weekend negotiations over a new contract stalled. Frustrated nurses chanted and waved signs outside Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan demanding higher wages. The walkout involves...

The state is looking to hire nurses at the Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center. The psychiatric facilities run by DCF provide in-patient long-term care for children with severe mental illness or behavioral problems.

COVID-19 cases are continuing to drop across the state, however the positivity rate remains in the double digits. This means there’s still plenty of demand for vaccines and booster shots, but not everyone has the ability to make it to an appointment to get one. That’s why Hartford woman Sasa Harriott came up with a plan to take the...

An ongoing debate in the medical world now extends to veterans’ care – it is about who is qualified to administer anesthesia. When a patient undergoes surgery, they receive anesthesia, but the question lingers: can a nurse anesthetist provide the treatment, or does a physician need to be present? It is a question that now applies to veterans’ care. The…

Meet Maria Szymaszek, a Registered Nurse at UConn Health.

The state and nation are facing several problems, nurses getting burnt out and the inability to train replacements.

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.

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.

As Connecticut hospitals continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also facing a shortage of nurses.