My Hanh (Theresa) Nguyen, PhD, is a board certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and an associate professor ...

Higher education is leading the charge in a region-wide effort to address a projected critical shortage of nurses in southern ...

Lorena Burkett, a registered nurse at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, says the state’s nursing shortage is rooted in heavy workloads that dissuade young people from entering the field and drive ...

California, like much of the nation, is not producing enough nurses working at bedsides to meet the needs of an aging and diverse population, fueling a workforce crunch that risks endangering quality ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California faces a severe shortage of nurses as thousands of applicants vie for limited seats. Nursing faculty are ...

The pandemic has highlighted poor care in America's nursing homes, where nearly 175,000 people have died of COVID-19 — a third of all deaths in the country. Cynthia Carrillo learned about this obscure ...

Weeks after the federal government lowered the borrowing limit for student loans for graduate degrees in nursing, ...

SACRAMENTO — About 1 in 8 Californians who have died of COVID-19 lived in a nursing home. They were among the state’s most frail residents: nearly 9,400 mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts and ...

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 ...

Charlene Harrington, a UC San Francisco professor emerita, has researched nursing-home ownership for more that 30 years. “These (facilities) are micromanaged at the chain level,” Harrington said. “The ...

The California Department of Public Health, which has long been criticized for failing to properly regulate nursing homes, is now considering an overhaul of its inspection program that advocates say ...