Nurses

Missouri ranks 50th in the nation in hours of care nursing home residents receive from workers each day. Advocates for nursing home residents say the Biden administration's plans to call for increased staffing could help residents.

Smaller facilities — particularly rural ones that have struggled for years to stay afloat — are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to compete for health care workers in this labor market.

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.

Overexposure to physical and mental stress that can result in feeling detached and hopeless is risk of of the pandemic.

The jury found that St. Luke's unfairly punished Glenda Blackburn after she complained about a younger nurse assaulting an older female nurse supervisor.

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.

The tripling of attacks on staff by patients at Cox Medical Center is symbolic of what nurses around the state face.

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.”

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.

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.

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.