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University of Missouri Health Care is pulling nurses from administrative positions and other jobs to cover clinic shifts, in order to keep up with the record number of COVID-19 patients.
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Overexposure to physical and mental stress that can result in feeling detached and hopeless is risk of of the pandemic.
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The jury found that St. Luke's unfairly punished Glenda Blackburn after she complained about a younger nurse assaulting an older female nurse supervisor.
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Just 57% of Missouri nursing home staff are vaccinated as of Thursday. Long-term care facility trade groups have warned of an exodus of staff if vaccines are mandated, but some nursing homes that instituted mandates haven’t seen that happen.
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The tripling of attacks on staff by patients at Cox Medical Center is symbolic of what nurses around the state face.
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Mask Choice 4 Kids says on its Facebook page that its mission is to “give children and parents the CHOICE to wear masks in school.”
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Krucial Staffing sent thousands of nurses to COVID-strained hospitals in New York, Texas and Louisiana. Meanwhile, the company's now-former CEO, and his family, may be behind Johnson County's anti-mask lawsuit.
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The nurses work at 21 Missouri jails and prisons spread throughout the state, including facilities in Kansas City, St. Louis, Jefferson City, Cameron and Fulton.
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While urban hospitals with deeper pockets for shoring up staff have implemented vaccine mandates, and may even use them as a selling point to recruit staffers and patients, their rural and regional counterparts are left with hard choices as cases surge again.