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Nurses, a crucial piece of the U.S. health care system, are wrestling with shortages and burnout that will have ripple effects on the profession for years to come. STAT’s coverage features stories and perspective pieces on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the workforce and how the dynamic between nurses and doctors plays out in health care settings.

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Hospitals Brittany Trang

Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on who you ask

Business Tara Bannow

Medicare’s proposal on nursing home staff is ‘insanity,’ key expert says

Health Annalisa Merelli

Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds

Hospitals Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Four burning questions about the potential 85,000-worker Kaiser Permanente strike

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

Senate HELP on collision course

Health Isabella Cueto

Emotional dry cleaning: A writer helps doctors share their stories — and their pain

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: HCA says smaller share of spending going to labor

First Opinion Podcast Torie Bosch

Why physicians should let patients call them by their first names

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First Opinion Tara Rynders

Health care systems must stop exploiting nurses’ tender hearts and begin supporting them

First Opinion Sarah McCarthy

The love my daughter and I found in the PICU

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First Opinion Rebecca Gale

More hospitals are offering child care. But they shouldn’t have to

First Opinion Brigid Tonry

More nurses: The smart way to save lives, money — and nurses

Hospitals Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Hospitals say peak labor costs are behind them

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Study finds heavier reliance on nurse practitioners, physician assistants after private equity takeovers

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Coming soon: Permanent Covid-19 safety rules for health care workers

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Advanced practice clinicians slightly more likely to take industry funding than doctors

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: This summer’s Covid surge was bad for hospital profits

First Opinion Toni Gingerelli

Certified nursing assistants do important work. They deserve to be paid a living wage for it

First Opinion Danielle Bowie

The health care industry’s lax approach to nurses’ mental health needs to change

Health Tech Katie Palmer

STAT Plus: As health care faces nursing shortages, burned-out nurses are flocking to remote jobs

Health Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Nursing shortage at Mass. hospitals leads to multimillion-dollar costs

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The double standard of discipline between nurses and physicians

First Opinion Ann MacDonald

Another way to empower nurses: Listen to them

Business Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Private equity firms are cashing in on the travel nursing business that has boomed during the pandemic

First Opinion Linda H. Aiken and Claire M. Fagin

Medicare can help fix the nurse shortage in hospitals

First Opinion Deborah Cohen

Primary care clinicians are the glue to health and wellness. Their shortage spells trouble

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Burnout at the bedside is causing a crisis in nursing

First Opinion Lauren Beechly

Building resilience and well-being: keys to avoiding the worst of a looming shortage of health care workers

First Opinion Karla Theilen

Breaths, deaths, and missed breaks: How counting defined my days as a pandemic nurse