Community college leaders will once again attempt to offer bachelor’s degrees in nursing, renewing a fight with the state’s universities over whether expanding to the two-year sector eases ...

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Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing. That’s setting up another conflict with the California State University, which already offers ...

For Julio Rivera, transferring from a local community college to a bachelor’s program in nursing was always a top priority. As someone who enjoyed helping others, nursing seemed like a natural career.

My Hanh (Theresa) Nguyen, PhD, is a board certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and an associate professor ...

Higher education is leading the charge in a region-wide effort to address a projected critical shortage of nurses in southern California.

Student nurse Gail Powers outside the College Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Despite a shortage of nurses, training programs have not kept up with demand, and the Covid-19 pandemic is only ...

Ashley Hooks always planned to retire at Lakewood Regional Medical Center, where she has been a nurse for 12 years. But now, Hooks said, staffing issues are so bad and burnout so severe that she’s ...

Nurses form the bedrock of health care in our state, touching the lives of virtually every Californian. They serve on the front lines of patient care across a variety of settings – from hospitals and ...

SACRAMENTO — Amid a frantic scramble to open hospitals and increase the number of healthcare workers, California nursing schools are warning state officials that an estimated 10,000 nursing students ...

Bradley Fisher, a 62-year-old retired mechanic, lived in a Bay Area nursing home for 14 years. Entering at age 39, Fisher had been partially paralyzed when bone spurs severed tendons in his spine.

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