NEW YORK - Every day Bojana Milekic, a critical care doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital, scrolls through a computer screen of patient names, looking at the red numbers beside them - a score generated by ...

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 ...

MICHIGAN (WNEM) - A new poll indicates many Michigan nurses would be more likely to stay at their patients’ bedside if there was a law limiting the number of hospital patients each nurse could be ...

From May 6-12, National Nurses Week celebrates the work of nurses. The American Nurses Association designated this year’s theme as “Nurses Make the Difference.” There are more than 5 million ...

A Senate bill before the state Legislature addresses the primary point of contention between unionized nurses at the Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children and hospital management. Senate Bill ...

Tricia Seaman fulfilled her patient’s final wish and gave her little boy the family his late mother had always wanted for him Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human interest, ...

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 ...

Nurses in Michigan say staffing levels are causing negative outcomes for patients and hospital workers alike. A recent survey commissioned by the Michigan Nurses Association found 42% of nurses said ...

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 ...

A nurse sang "A Whole New World" to cheer up 4-year-old cancer patient in Texas. — -- A video of a nurse in Houston singing to a 4-year-old girl with leukemia, who could not fall asleep, went ...

In the past few months, nurses across the country have been going on strike (or threatening to) as a measure of last resort to address dangerous understaffing at hospitals. Two key examples of this ...