Hospitals say that staffing agencies charge too much for providing traveling nurses. The nurses say they’re the ones doing the heavy lifting.

Many health care workers have fled the pandemic’s burdens in areas with low vaccination rates and fragile economies.

School nurses are attending to COVID-19 protocols on top of their regular duties of keeping students physically and emotionally healthy.

Exploring the pandemic’s toll on health care workers.

The U.S. has nearly 400,000 fewer workers in nursing and residential-care facilities than it did before the pandemic.

There are signs enrollment in nursing schools has picked up, just as nurses are leaving the profession.

In a recent survey of health care workers, 93% said they were experiencing elevated levels of stress.

Hospitals compete for these skilled personnel, some of whom make $8,000 a week. But the work is difficult and there can be tension with colleagues.

Over 100,000 new coronavirus cases were recorded every day for more than a week, and hospitalizations around the country reached a record high on Tuesday.

Both the states and federal government are lowering the barriers to physicians and nurses practicing in other states.