RALEIGH (August 25, 2021) – All too often, we take them for granted – until we get sick. It’s then that we realize how critical North Carolina’s nurses are not only ...

CHAPEL HILL (August 25, 2021) – Peter Hans has seen it both as President of the UNC System and President of the NC Community College System: To solve North Carolina’s ...

RALEIGH (August 20, 2021) – We’ve heard team-based care is increasingly important in health care – and it is. But is there any question who spends the most time with patients, ...

CHAPEL HILL (August 18, 2021) – The first time Lauren Kiefer arrived at Carrington Hall at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Nursing, she got lost.  It’s two buildings – an older one ...

RALEIGH (August 13, 2021) – What makes someone want to be a nurse? “It runs the gamut,” Dr. Ann Marie Milner, Director of Nursing at Wake Technical Community College, says in ...

(August 11, 2021) – Even as North Carolina tries to catch up with its nursing shortage, it’s seeing changes in how nurses are trained, which nurses are most in demand ...

CHAPEL HILL (August 10, 2021) – ‘Pretty please’ won’t cut it anymore.  With COVID-19 cases rapidly on the rise, it’s time for UNC campuses to require all students, faculty and staff ...

WINSTON-SALEM (August 6, 2021) – Educators teach nurses how to calm nervous patients. Sometimes instinct does the rest. That’s what happened March 10 at a pop-up Novant Health COVID vaccine clinic ...

(Aug. 4, 2021) – Big urban hospitals’ demand for nurses seems obvious. But what’s less obvious is the need for nurses in North Carolina’s rural communities. “You find that our graduates ...

RALEIGH (August 4, 2021) – Local hospitals. Rehab centers. Assisted-living homes. They all need trained nurses, particularly in North Carolina’s rural areas. And the state’s community colleges can supply those nurses. “In ...