Nurses

Alondra Orozco found out after graduating from nursing school that she is ineligible to be licensed as a registered nurse in Missouri because of her immigration status. Her professors were unaware of the law, but she’s not giving up.

Students use artificial intelligence to learn to handle a variety of situations, including CPR, labor and delivery complications and how to care for patients with psychiatric disorders that helps them make real-time decisions, record vital signs and suggest care plans.

For Maplewood resident Andrew Ring, food has always been more than just physical sustenance: It’s also comfort. After leaving St. Louis to become a travel nurse, he realized that more than the Gateway City's gooey cheese and iconic sweets was calling him back home.

Around 14% of all staff positions at hospitals were vacant in 2023, a rate that’s lower than it was at the height of the pandemic but still higher than in 2019.

Amazon employees, nurses and workers rights advocates gathered to call out working conditions they say don’t help employees stay healthy.

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

Dozens of nurses on Monday formed a picket line outside SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital on South Grand Boulevard to call for better staffing, guaranteed breaks and more comprehensive sick leave policies.

Originally scheduled to be ready this year, the $105 million project was pushed back to 2025 after the pandemic slowed its progress, according to SIU System President Dan Mahoney.

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.

Hospitals relied on travel nurses during the pandemic, but they came at a high cost. Now, states including Missouri are considering legislation to crack down on hospital spending.