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A nurse’s death raises the alarm about the profession’s mental health crisis

Most nurses and other frontline health workers worked relentlessly over the past two years, surge after surge, through countless deaths and severe staffing shortages. And now, a majority are struggling with psychiatric symptoms, research finds.

By NPR

Former nurses at The Meadows Psychiatric Center in Centre Hall fired after organizing to unionize

Two nurses claim they were fired for trying to form a union at a nursing home in Central Pennsylvania.

By Jeremy Long/WITF

Pa. nurses had to wait months for licenses during 2021 COVID surges

More than half of the 12,000 nurses issued licenses to work in Pennsylvania last year waited for three months or longer to get them

By Scott LaMar/WITF and Brett Sholtis
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