Nurses

A contingent of nurses filed a petition with the federal government.

The nurses picketed outside the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The bills are aimed at nurses and EMTs.

Harassment of workers doubled since 2018.

Maryland is expected to have a shortfall of 13,000 nurses by 2035.

A study conducted by Maryland Direct Services Collaborative found that some health care workers across the Baltimore region don’t earn enough to survive despite working in roles that are critical to patient care.

About one in five jobs working for hospitals across Maryland sit vacant.

Free tuition and a job at University of Maryland's St. Joseph Medical Center will be offered to some students interested in becoming nursing assistants then nurses in a pilot program known as Public Health Pathways.

We’ll go On the Record with the chief nurse executive for the University of Maryland Medical System. A nursing shortage still grips U.S. healthcare. How can the system onboard students faster while making sure they grasp all they need to know about patient care?

What’s being done to address the US nursing shortage? The approach the University of Maryland Medical System is piloting gives students many more hours of hands-on training by instructors who are on-the-job nurses, eager to teach. How is it working?