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Melissa Gong was completing her final semester of the nursing program at Cabrillo Community College when COVID-19 brought her studies to a halt. The facility where she was doing clinical training closed its doors to protect patients from potential exposure.

A November ballot question that would mandate strict nurse-to-patient ratios in Massachusetts hospitals would conservatively add between $676 million and $949 million in annual health care costs, according to an analysis released Wednesday by an independent state agency that was immediately disputed by a union representing nurses.

Two nurses lost their licenses after an NBC television station in Georgia persuaded courts to unseal a video secretly recorded by the family of a man who died in their care. The video shows the World War II veteran repeatedly calling for help, saying he can’t breathe. It also shows the nurses failing to take life-saving measures and laughing as...

Tufts Medical Center nurses ended their strike Thursday at 6:59 a.m. despite not coming to an agreement with hospital management.

The 1-day nursing strike at Boston’s Tufts Medical Center ended Thursday morning with no new progress in talks between the Massachusetts Nurses Association and hospital management.

The strike by Boston’s Tuft’s Medical Center nurses is set to end on Thursday at 6:59 a.m. although the union and hospital management have not been able to come to an agreement about wages, better pensions, and more staffing.

New Jersey officials say a nurse caught on videotape stabbing a boy with autism with a hypodermic needle to control his behavior has agreed to surrender her license during the investigation.