Many health care workers are exhausted and overworked as staffing shortages remain a major issue in the valley.

Worker shortages persist across Southern Nevada hospitals, although COVID-19 cases have dropped in recent weeks.

Seeking out health care is often secondary to survival for people living near the poverty line, UNLV students learned firsthand while participating in a simulation earlier this month.

UNLV Poverty simulation tries to show health students what working while poor is like

Can a poverty simulation help prepare med students to empathize with low-income patients?

Nurses across Las Vegas have left the area or the profession during the pandemic, leaving critical staffing shortages as the omicron surge swept through Nevada and filled hospitals.

UNLV Health schools teamed up Saturday for a poverty simulation. The goal is to build empathy and expose students to the impacts of poverty in the valley.

Nursing student Acacia Herndon doesn’t graduate from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas until June, but she’s already getting a jump on her career and providing some much-needed assistance at Centennial Hills Hospital during the stressful COVID-19 pandemic.

The shortage of nurses in Las Vegas and around the country continues to rise. And with the lack of staff, hospitals are calling on travel nurses to help.

UNLV nursing student Acacia Herndon doesn’t graduate until June, but she’s already getting a jump on her career and providing some much-needed assistance at Centennial Hills Hospital during the stressful COVID-19 pandemic.

The UNLV School of Nursing is partnering with Adam's Place to provide a virtual grief support group.

Hospital staffing remains in ‘crisis’ as hospital bed occupancy rises to 98% in Clark County