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Jodi Bobbitt is the only school nurse at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia. In a previous school nursing job, she split her time between two school buildings — some years three. Now she has only one campus to care for. (Photo courtesy of Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News)

A third of schools don’t have a nurse

Colleen DeGuzman - KFF Health News
Kevin Bacon joins SAG-AFTRA members as they maintain picket lines across New York City on August 8, 2023 in New York City. (John Nacion/Getty Images)

12 biggest Hot Labor Summer strikes

Olivia Luppino
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (Bobby Bank/Getty Images)

N.J. nurses strike gets heated

Bob Hennelly - Work-Bites
Worried healthcare worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

The horror of hospital work amid omicron

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
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Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

J. David McSwane
Nurses hold a meeting on one of five Covid-19 wards at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside where patients are taken to recover from the virus. (Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)

The nurse who lost hope

J. David McSwane - ProPublica
Nurses hold a meeting on one of five Covid-19 wards at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside where patients are taken to recover from the virus. (Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)

Are we doing right by our nurses?

Matthew Rozsa
New York City nurses and other hospital professionals protest dangerous working conditions and a change in sick leave policies during the COVID-19 pandemic (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why nurses say "Trump must go"

Mark Kreidler - Capital & Main
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Health workers are working while sick

Emmarie Huetteman - KFF Health News
Medical workers walk outside a special coronavirus area at Maimonides Medical Center on May 26, 2020 in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

I'm your doctor. Hear me on COVID

Chaya Bhuvaneswar
A nurse escorts a patient with covid-19 symptoms to a tent set up in a courtyard of the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil, near Paris, on March 6, 2020, to take blood sample as the novel coronavirus strain that erupted in China this year and causes the COVID-19 disease already left nine dead in France and made hundreds ill. (HOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Major medical staffing company cuts back

Isaac Arnsdorf - ProPublica
Medical personnel transport the first patient affected by COVID-19 to an ICU tent ( Emanuele Cremaschi/Stringer/Getty Images)

Nurses, docs fear for lack of PPE

Seth Holmes, Liza Buchbinder
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Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Retired doctors, nurses don scrubs again

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
A team of nurses with Livio Health Group took the vital signs of Anthony Nichols 52, at the large homeless camp Monday September 24, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN. Nichols said that he has a heart condition and had not been taking his medicine; he was later transported to local hospital by ambulance. Nichols said that he had been staying at the camp for only two days. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Can you afford a coronavirus test?

Nicole Karlis
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Nursing homes and insurance

Jordan Rau - KFF Health News
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Katie McDonough
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Nurses avert working sick

Josh Eidelson

C-sections: The unkindest cut?

Theresa Morris
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Carla K. Johnson
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