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The I-Team reviewed nearly three years’ worth of complaints filed by unionized nurses in assignment despite objection (ADO) forms, which many unions use to document safety concerns on the job. News4’s I-Team Reporter Ted Oberg reports.

From complaints about unsafe shifts to an inability to provide adequate care, documents obtained by the News4 I-Team show the toll of the national nurse staffing crisis inside an area hospital.

Nurses at two of New York City’s largest hospitals went on strike Monday, potentially leading to disruptions in care around emergency room visits and childbirth, after lengthy weekend negotiations over a new contract stalled. Frustrated nurses chanted and waved signs outside Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan demanding higher wages. The walkout involves...

Marymount University and Sibley Hospital have partnered to financially help nursing students to lessen burnout from working in the medical field, News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Nurses in Washington, D.C., are raising concerns about staffing shortages amid a nationwide strain on health care systems. The District of Columbia Nurses Association, a labor union, released a survey of its nurses in which more than 95% of them said staffing shortages are a major issue in the workplace. Nurses who took the survey also reported that their units…

The strain on the nation’s health care system continues to be a concern and now nurses in D.C. are raising their concerns about staffing shortages. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Hundreds of nurses are set to demonstrate on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Thursday to advocate for better working conditions and to remember health care professionals lost during the pandemic.

Nurses are set to march on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Thursday to advocate for better working conditions and to remember health care professionals lost during the pandemic. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

Nurses are taking 911 calls and helping to determine if people really should take the trip to the hospital. Mark Segraves reports.

Many American hospitals are looking abroad for health care workers, saying they’re facing a dire shortage of nurses amid the slogging pandemic

Medicare says it’s shining a light on key markers for nursing home quality.

This story was updated on Dec. 9, 2021, at 2:11 p.m. ET. Coping with the supply chain shortage, seen at grocery stores, car dealerships and more, has become a part of life in the pandemic. And even though we’re approaching our third calendar year with COVID, the 2021 shortages are showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, this Christmas…

Hospitals, clinics and care homes across the country are short-staffed, but enrollment at nursing schools is up. News4’s Cory Smith spoke to first-year nursing students at the University of the District of Columbia to find out why they’re going into nursing.

Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge

Health care workers who were once saluted for saving lives in the COVID-19 outbreak are now being issued panic buttons and ditching their scrubs before going out in public to avoid harassment.