The healthcare sector is struggling with staffing shortages. Travel nurses help bridge the gaps, enabling healthcare facilities to maintain service levels. While the use of travel nurses has been ...

Also see MedPage Today's earlier investigation series, "Nurse Suicide: Under the Radar," for more background on nurse suicide. The first national longitudinal study of nurse suicide in the U.S. found ...

Physician burnout is an ongoing issue in healthcare, but physicians aren't the only ones at risk -- nurses are as well. And unfortunately, it's driving some of them to take drastic measures. In the ...

A new study examining the effects of sleep patterns and shift work on the immune system has found that sleep debt and night shifts increase the risk of several common infections in nurses. Modern ...

In the first national study of its size, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health, Department of Nursing, have found that male and female nurses are ...