Nursing

Members of the union representing veterans nursing assistants at the Quincy home want facilities to have the power to hire people themselves.

A federal rule will require long-term care facilities to have a minimum number of nursing staff on hand at all times to take care of residents.

Union nurses at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital walked off the job at 7 a.m. Wednesday. They plan to picket through Friday morning. The 48-hour strike marks the second action the union has called in four months.

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