Stories tagged: "nursing"

Coronavirus Wisconsin nurse Elizabeth “Buffy” Riley, center, sits with fellow nurses Dee Wells, left, and Benita Conleh, right, in New York. Riley, who lives in Hayward and works in Cumberland, is spending three weeks in New York treating people hospitalized with COVID-19. (Contributed photo)
Coronavirus ‘How Are We Going to Keep Them Alive?’

Wisconsin nurse describes first day treating COVID-19 patients in New York

April 6, 2020
Coronavirus Elizabeth “Buffy” Riley works at Cumberland Memorial Hospital in northwest Wisconsin, teaching clinical skills to college nursing students. (Contributed photo)
Coronavirus Wisconsin Nurse Heads to New York to Help

Trading the calm of Cumberland for the chaos of pandemic’s epicenter

April 3, 2020
Coronavirus The faces of registered nurses from Meriter, SSMHealth and UW Hospital in Madison and Aurora Sheboygan Memorial. (Photos provided)
Coronavirus Wisconsinites Are Sewing Masks for Local Hospitals to Ease Shortages

Feds say there is 'mass production' of masks yet shortfalls remain

March 24, 2020
Healthcare N95 mask and stethoscope. (Photo provided)
Healthcare Nurses Forced to Reuse Masks as Outbreak Spreads

Staffing plans under constant review. Leaders seeking national help finding supplies.

March 19, 2020
Health Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, addresses Assembly members in this file photo. (Photo by Jessica VanEgeren)
Health WI Will Keep Higher Standard for Health Care Worker Training

GOP fails to persuade Dems to override Evers veto

January 15, 2020

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Alyssa Van Duyse donned protective gear, including an N95 mask, to be a polling place worker in Chippewa Falls during Tuesday’s spring election. Fears related to COVID-19 kept people who normally staff election sites to stay home, prompting Van Dyse and others who hadn’t previously done that work to help make the election possible. (Contributed photo ) Politics ‘It is Important to Protect the Right to Vote.’ What the Pandemic Election Was Like for Poll Workers
Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes during an online interview Tuesday from his Capitol office. Politics Lt. Gov. Barnes Blasts GOP for Election: ‘Remember Who Did This’
Gretchen Yoder waits in line to vote Tuesday at Washington High School in Milwaukee. She wore handwritten signs on her purse and shirt that read: "This is what voter suppression looks like," a protest of the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision to overrule Gov. Tony Evers' executive order postponing Tuesday's election. (Photo by Jonathon Sadowski) Politics Election Day: Coming Together, Knowing They Should Be Staying Apart
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Health Lawmakers Will Try to Override Evers Veto on CNA Training

Advocates say health care workers need better pay, not less training

January 14, 2020
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Jobs UW Nurses Unionize, Claiming Unacceptable Patient-Nurse Ratios

Nurses at Madison’s largest healthcare system set out on Thursday to reclaim what former Republican Gov. Scott Walker revoked eight years ago: their union.

December 23, 2019