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Robot joins the ranks at Spokane hospital

Hospitals across Washington state continue to struggle with staffing levels, and some are getting creative with potential ways to lighten the load for nurses. A Spokane hospital has welcomed a robot named Moxi to its care team.

Soundside

RSV is on the rise among children, but figuring out where is complicated

Emergency rooms at children's hospitals are seeing dramatic increases in admissions because of RSV and other respiratory viruses. But there are complications to tracking the virus in rural communities especially.

Soundside

Pinched for staff, this Kitsap ER nurse called on firefighters to step in

On the night of Saturday, Oct. 8, firefighters were called in to help on the Kitsap Peninsula, but it wasn't because of a fire. Instead, an overwhelmed nurse at the ER at St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale requested firefighters' help for managing patients.

KUOW Newsroom

Washington nurses call for better pay as more colleagues turn to traveling work

Hospital staffing shortages across the state have some nurses taking their skills on the road.

Seattle Now

Why Harborview is turning away patients

Harborview Medical Center is turning away all non-urgent patients, and has been for more than a week. The hospital is at 130 percent of its capacity. One big reason: staffing, both at the hospital and in other parts of the healthcare system. Dr. Steve Mitchell, medical director of Harborview's emergency department, explains what's going on and how the hospital is adapting. We also hear from nurse Nicole Johnson on burnout among frontline healthcare workers.

Doctors in Chernihiv bear witness to their hospital's fate after Russian shelling

It was a sunny day in mid-March. The sky was blue. It felt like spring. Then the attack began on City Hospital No. 2. Doctors tell what it was like — and what's going on now.

KUOW Newsroom

A healthcare researcher weighs in on the nurse-to-patient ratio debate

‘There's really been decades of research and hundreds of studies that have shown that low nurse-to-patient staffing ratios have a negative effect on patient outcomes.’

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As WA lawmakers consider a safe staffing bill, nurses warn of crisis conditions and risks to patients

'It's really important that we do have this safe staffing standard because adding more patients to the nurse's workload is literally hurting patients every single day. It's not good for them.'