Hospitals are joining the gig economy. Some of the nation’s largest hospital systems including Providence and Advocate Health are using apps similar to ride-hailing technology to attract scarce nurses.
About 100,000 registered nurses in the US left the workplace due to the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the results of a survey published Thursday.
It’s not uncommon when a person who wants to get into nursing school tells others they can make the “big bucks” doing what they do. That’s why Olivia Reeves, 35, gives her steps to success on how she made between $250,000 to $500,000 a year — and paid off her student loans — by the time she was 27.
I was sitting alone in a rundown trailer in the woods, surrounded by five acres of trees that crowded the blue sky. I had 60 aminophylline pills in my hand, hoping they would end my life.
As the US health-care system struggles with a labor shortage, a renewed focus on recruiting can only help. In less than two years, the US could face a shortage of up to 450,000 nurses.
Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it. Last summer, I got a tip about a curious scientific finding. “I’m sorry, it cracks me up every time I think about this,” my tipster said.
Richard Brewster and Susan Brewster spent their early careers working in very different fields, she as a nurse and he as an electrical engineer. But after retiring, they began to use their different skills together...
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