Nursing

The Safe Patients Limit Act would cap the number of patients per registered nurse in Illinois.

An inspections backlog grew in Missouri during the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbated more recently by staffing shortages and a spike in complaints that have tapped available resources

With a 40% staff vacancy rate, SLU Hospital has nurses caring for up to six patients per day, which they say poses a safety risk.

SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital nurses say that their departments are regularly understaffed and that hospital management has not done enough to address their concerns.

Missouri and Illinois rank last in the nation in hours of care nursing home residents receive from workers each day. Advocates for nursing home residents say the Biden administration's plans to call for increased staffing could help residents.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis is spending $7 million to expand a simulation center where nursing students use high-tech robotic mannequins and computers to learn and prepare for human patients.

With a nursing shortage exacerbated by the pandemic, some children with disabilities don’t receive the full care they’re eligible for

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.

UMSL's College of Nursing is expanding and renovating its learning resource and simulation center to help it graduate more nurses.

Cindy Lefton has worked as a registered nurse for 37 years. For her, the job requires attention to not only patients’ physical needs, but to their loved…