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Striking NYC Nurses Are 'Sounding an Alarm'

Workplace violence is a major focus of strike

(Newser) - New York City's nurses are still on the picket line, and they're talking about safety as well as pay. Five days into a strike involving nearly 15,000 nurses at three major systems—NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, and Montefiore—only NewYork-Presbyterian had returned to the bargaining table by Thursday...

Hospitals Scrambling, Nurses' Strike Enters Day 2

Mamdani joins picket line, says 'there's no shortage of wealth in the health care industry'

(Newser) - Thousands of New York City nurses are returning to the picket lines Tuesday as their strike targeting some of the city's leading hospital systems entered its second day with no signs of an end. On Monday, the city's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, stood beside nurses on a picket...

15K Nurses Walk Off the Job in NYC
15K Nurses Walk
Off the Job in NYC
Jan 12, 2026 6:04 AM CST

15K Nurses Walk Off the Job in NYC

Three hospital systems involved in what is the largest nurse strike in city history

(Newser) - Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. Nurses were to start walking off the job at 6am at the Mount Sinai Hospital and two of its satellite campuses. The...

Rebecca Gayheart on Life After Eric Dane's ALS Diagnosis

Actress reflects on co-parenting, ALS 'care partnering,' and finding hope

(Newser) - Rebecca Gayheart was in her closet when a phone call from husband Eric Dane, from whom she'd separated in 2017, upended life as she knew it: the actor had been diagnosed with ALS. In a first-person account for The Cut , Gayheart describes how Dane's gradual symptoms—weakness in...

VA to Cut Up to 35K Health Care Jobs

Move largely targets long-vacant posts as veterans, unions warn of strain

(Newser) - The country's biggest government-run health system is about to shrink for the second time this year—mostly on paper, but with real-world worries attached. The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to wipe out up to 35,000 health care positions this month, largely vacant jobs for doctors, nurses, and...

Raccoon Got Drunk on Peaches, Is Saved by Nurse

Kentucky's Misty Combs did chest compressions to save raccoon passed out in dumpster near distillery

(Newser) - We may have to tweak the phrase "drunk as a skunk" to "drunk as a raccoon." In a story explaining that but leaving a lot to unpack, a Kentucky woman rescued a juvenile raccoon she discovered passed out in rainwater at the bottom of a dumpster—then...

Nurses Canned After Teen's Death: Firings Were Retaliation

Union: Staff at Spokane's Providence facility were punished for raising concerns on patient's suicide

(Newser) - Fifteen nurses at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, have lost their jobs after hospital officials say they improperly viewed the medical records of a 12-year-old patient, Sarah Niyimbona, who died by suicide in April. With backing from their union, the nurses claim the firings are actually...

Cops: Woman Impersonated Nurse, Treated Thousands

Anyone treated by Florida woman Autumn Bardisa is asked to contact authorities

(Newser) - A Florida woman is facing charges after authorities say she treated more than 4,000 patients at a hospital while posing as a registered nurse. According to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, 29-year-old Autumn Bardisa was arrested Tuesday—in her scrubs, per the BBC — following an investigation...

In One Maternity Ward, 5 Nurses Have Brain Tumors

Boston-area hospital's investigation came up empty on cause of benign tumors; nurses' union steps in

(Newser) - A Boston-area hospital is stumped by a medical mystery: why five of its nurses, who all work on the same floor, have brain tumors. All five nurses from the fifth-floor maternity unit at Mass General Brigham's Newton-Wellesley Hospital have benign tumors—two of them being meningioma, the most common...

Panel Finds No Evidence of Murder by Lucy Letby

Former nurse gains hope in findings tying infant death, injury to 'bad medical care'

(Newser) - A panel of 14 experts has raised more serious doubts on the convictions of Lucy Letby, dubbed Britain's "killer nurse." The 35-year-old former neonatal nurse was found guilty of killing seven newborns and attempting to kill seven more at England's Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015...

Hospital Sued After Nurse Allegedly Put Tap Water in IVs

The patients were supposed to receive fentanyl

(Newser) - Attorneys representing both living and deceased patients of an Oregon hospital filed a $303 million lawsuit against the facility on Tuesday after a nurse was accused of replacing prescribed fentanyl with nonsterile tap water in intravenous drips. The wrongful death and medical malpractice complaint accuses Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center...

'Killer Nurse' Hears Her Fate: 'Have Fun With the Devil'

Heather Pressdee gets 3 life sentences for administering excess insulin that led to 17 deaths

(Newser) - No one has to worry about Heather Pressdee ever taking care of a patient again. The 41-year-old dubbed the "killer nurse" by her own colleagues pleaded guilty to murder and other charges on Thursday, avoiding the death penalty but earning herself three consecutive life sentences for first-degree murder, plus...

Charges Dropped Against Nurse Accused of Treating Newborn Roughly

Amanda Burke was accused of slamming baby face down into bassinet in ICU

(Newser) - Charges against a Long Island nurse accused of slamming a newborn baby boy face down in a bassinet in an intensive care unit were dropped on Monday, the day her trial was due to begin. Amanda Burke was fired hours after the incident last year, but state investigators said her...

Nurse Goes Into Cardiac Arrest During Cardiac Arrest Training

Colleagues went to work on her instead of the mannequin

(Newser) - Andy Hoang eagerly began her first nursing job this year in New Hampshire, with a desire to specialize in cardiac care. She was excited about attending a November practice session on how to respond to someone in cardiac arrest. But as things were getting underway at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in...

She Talked Penis Size With Letterman, Taught on Fetishes

Former nurse Sue Johanson, who became a celebrity sex expert in US and Canada, dies at 93

(Newser) - Sue Johanson, a nurse who became a popular TV sex expert in Canada and the United States when she was in her 60s, has died, her daughter said. Johanson died in Toronto on Wednesday at age 93 after a long decline, Jane Johanson said, per the AP . Johanson's straight...

Fellow Passengers Bring Man 'Back to Life'

Emily Raines and Daniel Shifflett, both nurses, save a man with no pulse aboard plane

(Newser) - After a four-day cruise in the Bahamas, Baltimore couple Emily Raines and Daniel Shifflett were eager to get home. So eager, in fact, that they twice tried to switch to an earlier flight out of Fort Lauderdale, where their cruise ship docked around 9am on May 1. Ultimately, they stuck...

Feds: $100M Scheme Sought to License Untrained Nurses

More than 7.6K fake diplomas allegedly issued over 5 years in South Florida

(Newser) - "There are over 7,600 people around the country with fraudulent nursing credentials who are potentially in critical health care roles treating patients," FBI Miami Special Agent in Charge Chad Yarbrough said this week. His warning came as the Justice Department announced charges related to three accredited nursing...

For Nurses, the Problem Is Staffing
Those Heroic
Nurses Need
More Help
OPINION
Jan 18, 2023 4:09 PM CST

Those Heroic Nurses Need More Help

Biggest issue in strikes is staffing, Lydia Polgreen writes

(Newser) - Nurses were praised and universally thanked for their work early in the pandemic—applauded nightly in New York, for example, in a show of support for essential health care workers, per NPR . But the appreciation and the pizza didn't last, and nurses remain shortchanged and taken for granted, Lydia...

New York City Nurses Return to Work
New York City Nurses
Return to Work
Jan 12, 2023 3:42 PM CST

New York City Nurses Return to Work

Three-day strike end at two hospitals

(Newser) - Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals ended a three-day strike Thursday after reaching a tentative contract agreement that union officials said will relieve chronic short staffing and boost pay by 19% over three years. Nurses began returning to work Thursday morning at Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore...

Outrage After Maternity Nurses Share Their 'Icks' on TikTok

Emory University Hospital Midtown refers to 'former employees' in statement

(Newser) - Complaining about your job with co-workers is pretty typical, but four labor and delivery nurses who made a TikTok video airing their gripes may have lost their jobs over it. NBC News reports the nurses at Emory University Hospital Midtown made a video in which they sounded off about what...

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