Stories tagged: "nursing"

Economy Aspires is a health care provider that operates multiple hospitals and clinics across northern and central Wisconsin.
Economy Nurses Up North Push for Better Pay Amid Pandemic Demands

Nurses at a major Wisconsin health network are demanding higher wages and better working conditions after two years of a pandemic and staffing shortages. 

JT Cestkowski JT Cestkowski January 27, 2022 4:31 pm CST
Coronavirus Kristi and Jeff Mecikalski
Coronavirus As She Grieves Her Father-in-Law, This Wisconsin Nurse Awaits Her Vaccine Dose

COVID-19 also sickened her husband, so Kristi Mecikalski is well aware of the value of getting immunized.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson January 20, 2021 10:08 am CST
Coronavirus Hayward nurse Buffy Riley, left, and state Rep. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee, each contracted the coronavirus and survived painful battles with COVID-19.
Coronavirus Riley and Bowen: Trump Making It Harder to Survive COVID-19

Bowen was the first state legislator to catch the virus. Riley went to New York to help overloaded hospitals; then she caught it.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski May 20, 2020 9:08 am CDT
Coronavirus Buffy Riley, right, and one of the nurses she works with treating patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in New York. (Photo by Buffy Riley)
Coronavirus Buffy Riley Is Home – But Her Coronavirus Nightmare Isn’t Over Yet

Buffy Riley contracts COVID-19 despite safeguards while treating patients in New York City.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 26, 2020 8:31 pm CDT
Coronavirus Footage of Elizabeth “Buffy” Riley and other nurses being applauded by New York City police as they departed for work as shown on the "CBS Evening News" on Wednesday.
Coronavirus Buffy Riley Back in the Northwoods, But Not Quite ‘Out of the Woods’

Back from NYC, nurse will quarantine at a friend's cabin.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 24, 2020 6:17 pm CDT

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Coronavirus Registered nurse in Madison speaks out against lack of effort by state and federal lawmakers to provide PPE.
Coronavirus Nurses Getting Tired of Political Molasses

Undersupplied and facing health risks, they're silent no longer.

Jessica VanEgeren Jessica VanEgeren Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 24, 2020 10:17 am CDT
Coronavirus Hayward resident Buffy Riley, right, has given out dozens of N95 masks she has been sent by Wisconsin friends to other nurses working with her in New York. Riley wears two masks and a face shield to protect against her getting COVID-19. (Contributed photo)
Coronavirus Overwhelmed, Applauded and Now Sick, a Wisconsin Nurse Comes Home from New York

Part 5 – Buffy Riley has worries about coronavirus but no regrets

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson April 22, 2020 10:26 am CDT