Chronic pain in children is common. Effective solutions exist − and training community providers is one way to get treatment to kids who need it.

Pennsylvania hospitals report an average 14% vacancy rate for registered nurses. In rural areas it is much higher.

Left out of FDR’s New Deal, the health insurance program for the poor was finally established in 1965.

Nurses face alarming rates of violence at work. These attacks too often go unreported, and they are fueling burnout and rampant turnover across the profession.

A nursing professor can't help pointing out a few things that medical dramas tend to get wrong about her profession.

Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.

Evacuating is expensive, and for some people the risks of leaving can seem greater than staying despite the storm.

Long before the pandemic, health care workers were experiencing high levels of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, all of which contribute to reduced quality of care for patients.

While some nurses have protested the use of robotics and AI in healthcare, new technologies could help care for aging populations offering efficiency alongside the compassion of human nurses

Among her 5 decades of accomplishments, Nightingale founded the world’s first nursing school and advocated health care for all.