nursing

According to the survey, nearly a third of Michigan nurses say they plan to leave their current position, which is actually an improvement over a U of M survey in 2022.

Nurses have been telling lawmakers that hospital understaffing is putting patient lives at risk. They want Michigan to follow California and Oregon and institute mandatory staffing ratios.

The Michigan Nurses Association says mandating maximum nurse-to-patient ratios would make patients safer. But every single hospital and health system in the state is opposed, an industry spokesperson said.

Michigan could join a multi-state nurse licensing agreement. That’s under a recent bill introduced in the state Legislature.The legislation would add Michigan to the “nurse licensing compact.”

Hospitals are seeing ongoing staffing shortages. But they've also seen rising profits. We talk about how and how much hospitals profited during COVID–19.

An ER nurse in Traverse City talks about the unprecedented stress nurses and other hospital staff are facing right now. Plus, a nursing researcher weighs in on the solutions to healthcare staffing shortages.

Stateside spoke with Nikia Parker, an ER nurse and paramedic in the Traverse City area, about the conditions of being an ER nurse today, how those conditions have caused so many nurses to leave the field, and what this all means for patient care.

The charges resulting from the 2022 GOP gubernatorial petition fraud, an author on his new cinema history book, hospital system profits during the pandemic, and what a partial shutdown of Line 5 in Wisconsin could mean for Michigan.

The Michigan Nurses Association says limiting the number of patients per nurse is a "matter of life and death." But the hospital industry says it simply cannot hire nurses that "don't exist."

Today, changes to Michigan's primary system in anticipation of the presidential election calendar. Then, a conflict on beavers versus trout and how nursing shortages impact healthcare workers and patients.