I don’t think there are many people who would disagree when I say that being a nurse is one of the toughest jobs there is today. In the face of a worldwide nursing shortage, nearly a third of nurses ...

Nurse educators are notably in high demand, but the desire to become one has been generally low in recent years. Several factors are at play: nurse educators often receive lower pay than clinical ...

A patient was in pain, frustrated because she felt like no one was listening to her. Emily Barksdale, a nursing student at UNC-Chapel Hill at the time, walked in and asked the patient to describe her ...

I had been out of nursing school for a year and was working at a neonatal intensive care unit in Chicago. I was tired, stressed, burnt out, challenged and questioning my decision to become a nurse.

Tens of thousands of nurses have left practice since the pandemic, and many more plan to leave within a few years, according to the 2024 National Nursing Workforce Survey, which reviews the number of ...