Action News found 3 out of 4 nurses disciplined in Pennsylvania are done so for drugs or alcohol. And over the past 12 months, the number has exploded. "All narcotics are accessible to you, like ...

When nurse Mary Femia arrived for work in the 18-bed detox unit at St. Peter's Hospital and looked at the board of patients, nearly all of them were heroin addicts. Advertisement Article continues ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – When Carol Regier agreed to help set up the nursing station at the Keystone Treatment Center, she figured it would be a temporary assignment. Regier was an operating room nurse at ...

Confronting an opioid overdose epidemic that is killing at least 90 people every day, two federal agencies this month gave more than 700 nurse practitioners and physician assistants the authority to ...