Nurses

A forensic nurse death investigator for Denton County, went to get her thermometer out of her bag to check a body surface temperature — only for the batteries to fall to the floor.

‘Nurse Unseen’ examines the contributions of Filipino nurses to U.S. health care.

When a schoolwide emergency such as a fire or shooting breaks out on a school campus, who is the first to respond?

The Gatehouse, a Christian-based nonprofit, provides housing and child care to single mothers trying to obtain degrees.

As the medical care shortage widens, the university has a strategy to prepare nurses to serve more patients.

Hundreds of nurses stopped work Tuesday to demand a contract that includes safe staffing ratios and other provisions aimed at nurse retention.

Significant population growth and pandemic workforce losses combine to increase the need for nurses.

Nurses at Children’s Health in North Texas have seen patients through surges of COVID-19, the flu, and now RSV.

Hospitals around the country continue to rely on contract nurses — and it’s taking a budgetary toll. Parkland Health, Dallas County's public health system, wants to fill more nursing slots with regular employees.

Health workers caring for pregnant women now face a bewildering array of legal questions.

Texas has had a shortage of nurses for years. But the current surge in COVID-19 cases has made matters worse: It’s forced a number of nurses to leave, and there aren't enough people — especially in critical care — among the so-called traveling, or temporary, nurses that hospitals rely on to fill in the gap.

The lack of available nurses has driven up salaries and created a heated, competitive job market as thousands of positions remain open throughout Texas.