News from the front lines of America's nursing crisis

Thousands of nurses overseas awaiting visa processing as hospitals struggle to staff beds
“Our caregivers are exhausted. They’re fatigued physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually,” Tom VanOsdol, president and CEO of Florida health system Ascension Florida, testified before a panel of Sunshine State legislators this week.

States look to overseas nurses
“Our caregivers are exhausted. They’re fatigued physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually,” Tom VanOsdol, president and CEO of Florida health system Ascension Florida, testified before a panel of Sunshine State legislators this week.

Medical rationing in America
America’s nursing shortage has become so acute that hospitals—large and small, rural and urban—are being forced to ration medical care. We’ll say it louder for those in the back: the United States is rationing healthcare because it has too few nurses to provision it.

A national crisis deserves a national response
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021—The Department of State last week updated its visa processing protocols to provide a possible pathway for emergency visa processing of foreign healthcare workers. The

“It’s no longer a PPE crisis. It’s a caregiver crisis.”
AUGUST 30, 2021—Hospitals in every corner of the country are once again buckling under the weight of the coronavirus. But unlike earlier surges when intensive

One year into the coronavirus, one-third of nurses considering leaving bedside
Sixty percent of respondents in a nationwide survey of more than 1,000 registered nurses reported that nurse-to-patient ratios have risen to unsafe levels in the last year.