In the last three years, Kiana Smith has transitioned from Panera Bread employee in the Northwestern Memorial Hospital building to hospital patient care technician. In what she described as a “shot in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The need for nurses continues to grow in Chicago. To help bridge the gap caused by the nursing shortage, Northwestern Medicine launched a program where after four months, a person can ...

Northwestern Medicine is trying to combat the nationwide nursing shortage with a program that trains non-clinical employees to take on clinical roles, and they’re opening up the program to more people ...

Taking care of her dad after his two hip replacements awakened Jasmine Barnachea’s desire to be a nurse, but she needed a way to jumpstart her health care education. So when Barnachea, a nutritional ...

EFFINGHAM -- Lake Land College is offering Basic Nursing Assistant (CNA) training this summer in Effingham, Paris and Pana. The nine-week course will meet every Monday and Thursday from 8 a.m. – 4:30 ...

US nursing homes will face more than 660,000 nursing aide job openings through 2034, almost double what will be needed across ...

In mid-April 2020, as Covid-19 shutdowns and lockdowns were being put in place across the U.S., my grandmother’s health started to decline. With so many unknowns, the assisted living facility where ...