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A nurse and her boyfriend engaged in a heroic act mid-flight on their way back home to Baltimore from a vacation in the Bahamas. Emily Raines, an acute care nurse at Greater Baltimore Medical [...]

Amid a rise in violence against health care workers, Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday signed into law harsher penalties against those convicted of threatening or assaulting nurses, doctors or anyone [...]

Three years since the COVID-19 pandemic prompted scores of health care workers to leave their profession, nurses say New Jersey hospitals continue to be critically understaffed and therefore less [...]

A family nurse practitioner in New York City, Jose M. Maria has come to expect overt racism from patients. “I’ve been called the N-word, I’ve been called, you name it,” he said. A triple minority [...]

When Destiny heard screams, she raced to a hospital room where she saw a patient assaulting a care technician. As a charge nurse at Northeast Georgia Health System, she was trained to de-escalate [...]

Satisfaction in nursing as a career dropped to 71% after a decade at nearly 85%, according to a recent survey from recruiting firm AMN Healthcare. Only 40% of nurses expect to have the same job a [...]

The authorities are still in the process of tracking down some 2,800 individuals who purchased bogus nursing degrees from three unaccredited nursing schools in southern Florida and went on to [...]

In North Carolina, Medicaid expansion is a foregone conclusion. The General Assembly approved the necessary legislation. Gov. Roy Cooper signed it. While expansion is contingent on the passage of [...]

A nurse staffing bill that passed the House and the Senate just weeks ago was gutted in the final hours of the 2023 legislative session when some senators withdrew their support because of an [...]

Even if they hadn’t been on the frontlines throughout the pandemic, health care workers have still earned the description of “heroes.” And the NJBIZ Healthcare Heroes awards are making sure these [...]