In the last three years, Kiana Smith has transitioned from Panera Bread employee in the Northwestern Memorial Hospital building to hospital patient care technician. In what she described as a “shot in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The need for nurses continues to grow in Chicago. To help bridge the gap caused by the nursing shortage, Northwestern Medicine launched a program where after four months, a person can ...

Northwestern Medicine is trying to combat the nationwide nursing shortage with a program that trains non-clinical employees to take on clinical roles, and they’re opening up the program to more people ...

Kabira Madani was 14 when she first realized she wanted to be a nurse. “I was back home in Morocco,” she said. “My mom suffered with gallstones and every time she had an attack my dad would give her ...

Taking care of her dad after his two hip replacements awakened Jasmine Barnachea’s desire to be a nurse, but she needed a way to jumpstart her health care education. So when Barnachea, a nutritional ...

Santiago Canyon College’s nursing program enables students to become certified nursing assistants and sets them on the path to employment in the growing health care field. Soon, three more medical ...

Erika Rojas Romero of San Pablo hesitated a few months ago when she heard about a new training program in Santa Rosa that would help her become a certified nursing assistant. The commute was long and ...

Tacora Love, a nurse educator at Northwestern Medicine, joins Lisa Dent to talk about how they are helping to combat Illinois’ nursing shortage with the Northwestern Medicine Basic Nursing Assistant ...