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Policies mandating company approval before talking publicly about conditions in hospitals have been a source of conflict. An appeals court decision could lead to a change in those policies.

The nurses, representing National Nurses United, were demonstrating at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, Fawcett Memorial Hospital, Oak Hill Hospital and Osceola Regional Medical Center.

Despite a hearts-and-minds campaign and millions spent in incentives, facilities struggle to get staffs vaccinated against COVID. Some are met with hesitancy, resignations or, in some cases, lawsuits.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused nurses to leave the profession or retire and federal officials estimate there will be a need for 1.1 million new nurses by 2022.

Leon Haley also told the City Council that many UF Health Jacksonville nurses have retired or left the workforce because of the strain of the job over the past year.

The new study surveying more than 700 critical care nurses found that 40% were struggling with symptoms of depression.

Researchers say “very low”-quality research from the 2003 SARS outbreak drove guidelines on who got the best PPE, leaving those most at risk exposed.

A new training program at the University of South Florida is designed to help nurses deal with the stress of the coronavirus pandemic.

The NFL plans to reward about 7,500 health care workers who have received a coronavirus vaccine with free tickets to Super Bowl LV.

Florida Hospital Association President Mary Mayhew and Florida Medical Association CEO Tim Stapleton encouraged health workers to share their experience receiving the coronavirus vaccine with others.