Posted on · On Thursday's show: The challenges nurses face in the ongoing pandemic, dealing with more drivers returning to the roads, and a conversation with area climbers whose sport is now part of the Olympics.
Posted on · Episode: 2022 Alexander W. Brandon’s, and my father’s, old surveying book. Today, another ghost in an old book.
Posted on · Hospital officials and front-line workers say removing the state’s mask mandate is premature.
Posted on · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.
Posted on · Time, money, and skill are needed throughout the city of Houston.
Posted on · On Wednesday's Houston Matters: The plight of nurses in the pandemic, the week in politics, springtime gardening advice, and the hosts of The Last Podcast on the Left.
Posted on · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.
Posted on · Three Houstonians in the nursing field discuss how their profession is perceived and other challenges they face today.
Posted on · On Friday's Houston Matters: Early voting ends today and has already surpassed all of 2014 in Harris County. Then, we discuss how nurses are perceived in culture. Plus, our non-experts break down the week's news. And Joel Hodgson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 discusses the art of mocking bad movies.
Posted on · Nursing homes are losing nurses to better paying jobs in hospitals
Posted on · Three years ago (June 30, 2014), we talked about the state of nursing in Greater Houston. In particular, we talked about how the industry is addressing the gap between supply and demand, especially as Baby Boomers age and the need for healthcare grows. Are we any closer to closing that gap? What's being done within […]
Posted on · We often hear that Houston is a global city – but what does that mean? The term might be used to describe our area's much-touted cultural diversity. But it could also be used to describe the region's role as an international economic engine. To see just where Houston stacked up on the latter front, researchers […]
Posted on · (Above: A class at Lone Star College. Photo: Laura Isensee | Houston Public Media) Right now, just three community colleges in the state of Texas are allowed to offer four-year bachelor's degrees. Houston's Lone Star College is not one of them, but wants to be. Lone Star College Chancellor Dr. Steve Head argues allowing schools […]
Posted on · “We know that we are producing, educating, and inspiring people to be nurses and they are answering that call,”
Posted on · Houston Community College has been contending with a number of issues in recent years. The Houston Chronicle reported earlier this year on more than 350 acres of land the college owned that went unused. Thereâs also been controversy surrounding the collegeâs associate degree nursing program, which was put on probation because the state concluded the […]