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Kelly signed House Bill 2528, a controversial bill that rolls back nonpractice disciplinary actions after some former nurses testified they were punished for simple administrative errors.

SB 334 forbids the board from requiring instructors have credentials more than one level above the degree sought by the students they teach. Individual nursing schools can adopt standards above the new baseline.

Bill voids decades of regulatory decisions amid concern about investigatory process

These state hospitals can't find full-time staff. Contract nurses are needed to serve patients, but expenses keep going up.

The trend was already underway when the COVID-19 pandemic pushed rural and small-town nursing homes to close permanently. Yet, some communities are finding ways today to re-envision nursing homes while keeping staff at the forefront.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill Friday that would have allowed providers like nurse practitioners to independently prescribe certain drugs.

The state has been in a nursing shortage for years, and there haven't been enough slots for nursing students. Universities are working to change that.

Kansas hospitals will receive $50 million to provide extra pay for nurses, but a plan approved by a state task force will require them to report monthly on how many nurses they’ve lost and why.

A plan in Kansas to allocate $50 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds toward retention incentives for nurses and frontline workers has stalled.

Stephanneth Adams plans to leave Kansas. The nurse practitioner landed in the state’s rural southwest — where she saw patients in Garden City, Dodge...