Debbie Ahlert-Caffey, the director of clinical services for the Visiting Nurses Association, takes a patient's heart rate and oxygen saturation levels on Jan. 20, 2020. Many clinicians are fighting ...

Betty Smith, a 96-year-old great grandmother who lives in New Jersey, is mostly unable to leave her apartment, but not unhappy. “I love my little apartment,” she said. “I love it just as much today as ...

It’s a difficult time to be a nurse. It’s an even more difficult time to be a home visiting nurse. This large group of health care providers, who are largely invisible in the media, are poorly paid ...

Many patients treated for the coronavirus are still contagious when they are discharged from the hospital, and may still need support as they build back strength. That's where a home health care nurse ...

Home visits by nurses to check on infants and first-time mothers offer learning benefits for the children and savings in the cost of public welfare programs, according to new research published in ...

After all, they have spent their careers walking into strangers' homes, helping them recover from illnesses, easing their pain as they die, comforting family members. But now nurses from the ...