Nurse outside U.S. capitol holding signs calling for workplace violence prevention

New report: High and rising rates of workplace violence and employer failure to implement effective prevention strategies is contributing to the staffing crisis

NNU's survey results reveal majority of nurses have experienced workplace violence, with nearly half seeing a rise in rates in the past year.

Nurse holds sign "Protect Nurses Patients Public Health

Urge the CDC to listen to frontline health care workers and patients!

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tasked its advisory committee to update infection control guidance for health care settings. Take action now to help ensure CDC and HICPAC protect health care workers and patients from infectious diseases. 

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Measles: What nurses need to know

Globally, measles cases rose 30-fold in 2023 compared to 2022. Despite its elimination in the United States in 2000, there remains a serious risk of outbreaks. Learn about protections nurses and other health care workers need to care for a patient with suspected or confirmed measles.

Press releases

Nurses from El Paso, across Texas, and nationwide stand with Annunciation House. We condemn attacks on this group by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, as well as his attempt to shutter the organization without due process.
Registered nurses at UChicago Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, voted overwhelmingly to approve a new four-year agreement that addresses numerous patient safety concerns.
Registered nurses from San Francisco hospitals will hold a rally and then provide testimony at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing to demand that UCSF Medical Center answer major questions about its plans for maintaining or cutting key services and access to care at two hospitals it has recently acquired.
UC registered nurses from across the state will hold a rally to highlight their ongoing patient safety concerns, including overcrowding in emergency departments, patient privacy violations, and the CDPH's failure to respond appropriately to these concerns with thorough and transparent investigations and reporting.

Organize with National Nurses United to improve workplace standards through collective bargaining, reform national health care legislation, and make a difference for you and your patients.

National Nurse Magazine

Advocacy in Action: NNU nurses educate, agitate, organize, and win

New Orleans nurses make history by unionizing

University Medical Center RNs join NNOC

U.S. Senate holds first-ever hearing on ratios

NNU and NYSNA President Nancy Hagans, RN testifies