As hospitals in Orange County continue to contend with high nursing vacancy rates following the COVID-19 pandemic, the California State Legislature is poised to pass Senate Bill 895, vital legislation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar Mateo dreamed of being an artist, but after he contracted leukemia when he was 20, his life plans abruptly changed. The ...

For Julio Rivera, transferring from a local community college to a bachelor’s program in nursing was always a top priority. As someone who enjoyed helping others, nursing seemed like a natural career.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California must invest in competitive faculty pay, loan-repayment incentives and faculty diversity initiatives to tackle the ...

The number of students graduating from private nursing programs has doubled over the past 10 years, as students choose the more expensive option over long wait lists to attend programs in public ...

Since the pandemic, nursing in California has taken a hit. With an estimated the shortage of 36,000 licensed nurses, a decade long shortage that was exacerbated by COVID-19 and limited capacity at ...

Vaccine support specialist Joselyn Ascencio administers a monkeypox vaccine to nurse practitioner Dr. Johnny Jimenez during a press demonstration at UCSF Fresno’s COVID-19 Equity Project medical ...

Across California, health care costs continue to rise, but another crisis is threatening patient care: a growing shortage of registered nurses. Without a coordinated system that connects nursing ...

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