There's growing calls for nurses and midwives to take greater charge of patient care to help free-up GPs and ease the pressure on hospital emergency departments.

By the time she was 7, she'd had eight open-heart surgeries. “I spent my childhood in hospitals around cardiac nurses," says Eastes, 43, of Junction City, Kansas. "My first friend was a nurse." ...

This condition, known as reduced ejection fraction, is an indicator of heart failure. An echocardiogram is typically used to diagnose it, but it’s not widely available because the technology is ...

Despite these assurances, nurses insist that without significant security improvements, they and their patients remain in constant danger. "They are asking us to bring a stethoscope to a gunfight ...

But when his mother, Jessica Breighner, went to her nursing position at UPMC Memorial ... impossible to think about anything else. “My heart dropped, it was terrible,” Jayden said.