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About 40 nurses demonstrated, claiming the hospital's decision will mostly affect low-income, high-risk patients. The hospital's chief nursing officer says the union is misguided in its messaging.

Shift Change, of the UF Shands Arts in Medicine program, is an hourlong broadcast dedicated to uplifting Gainesville health care workers and the Shands Hospital community.

Some 15,000 nurses at seven health care systems in the Minneapolis and Duluth areas walked out, a number the union says makes it the largest strike ever by private-sector nurses.

More than two years into the pandemic, parents face a child care crisis. That’s why some hospitals are considering starting child care centers to address recruitment and retention troubles.

Isolation gowns are supposed to protect health care workers from splattered bodily fluids. But new studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.

Nurses say they're juggling too many patients at once and say the added workload puts everyone in danger.

This additional funding toward the nursing industry comes after the pandemic revealed a nationwide shortage of nurses, including in Florida.

"I think the pandemic highlighted the nurses' value and now we’re asking to be paid that value,” said rally organizer Emily Bloom.

Nurses have traveled from around the country to protest outside the courtroom where a former Tennessee nurse will be sentenced for causing the death of a patient.

As covid hospitalization rates stabilize, at least for now, and federal and state covid relief funding dries up, travel nurse contracts that were plentiful and lucrative are vanishing.