This Week's Top Nursing Jobs and Headlines

Your twice-weekly roundup of nursing news, work trends, and opportunities

Welcome to Nurse Ascent, a twice-weekly newsletter created by nurses, for nurses. This week we share nursing jobs available now, and cover the latest news from a hospital staffing crisis tied to budget cuts to bipartisan pushback against the Trump administration’s decision to exclude nursing from the federal definition of a professional degree.

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Featured Jobs

🩺 RN – Labor and Delivery at Providence Hawthorne, CA Apply Now →

☤ Travel Nurse RN – Medical-Surgical Phoenix, AZ Apply Now →

♡ Travel Nurse RN – Neuro at Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center Barberton, OH Apply Now →

💉 Nurse Practitioner (NP) – Neurology Phoenix, AZ Apply Now →

🩹 Interventional Radiology – Travel RN Miami, FL Apply Now →

🩸 Travel NP – Family Practice Illinois, IL Apply Now →

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Headlines in Healthcare

Nurse wins $75K after workplace rumors cross legal line

Workplace gossip isn’t harmless when it puts a nurse’s reputation, job, and family at risk. A Massachusetts jury awarded $75,000 to a nurse after years of false and damaging rumors spread by coworkers, ultimately forcing him to leave his position and move out of state. According to Nurse.org, the case underscores how quickly unit-level gossip can escalate—and how hospitals can be held responsible when leadership fails to intervene or protect staff from reputational harm.

Hiring freeze is pushes Ca. county hospitals to the brink

Nurses in Santa Clara County say chronic understaffing is already affecting patient safety, and looming budget cuts could make things worse. According to The Mercury News, nurses at four public hospitals are calling on the county to end a years-long hiring freeze as Medicaid funding cuts and fiscal pressures tighten. Union leaders warn that bare-minimum staffing, rising burnout, and increased workplace violence are becoming normalized, raising concerns that nurses and patients alike are being put at risk as hospitals brace for even deeper cuts in 2026.

Lawmakers urge White House to reclassify nursing degrees

Bipartisan lawmakers have sent a letter to President Trump urging the administration to recognize nursing as a professional degre, warning that the current policy could make it harder and more expensive to become an NP, CRNA, or DNP. According to Nurse.org, 140 members of Congress are pushing back after nursing was excluded from the Department of Education’s updated definition, a move that would limit federal loan access for graduate nursing students starting in 2026 and could worsen the nursing shortage nationwide.

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