Quad-demic: RSV, Influenza, Covid-19, and Crisis Standards of Care
Rates of influenza, RSV, and Covid-19 are climbing across the U.S. The hospital industry’s embrace of crisis standards of care, including the closure of pediatric beds, has set the stage for the respiratory viral surge to be another crisis. Join NNU experts on Wednesday, Dc. 14, to learn what nurses and other health care workers need to know.
Providence Saint John’s nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention
Registered nurses at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract.
Nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas vote overwhelmingly to join NNOC/NNU
Nurses sought union affiliation so they can more effectively advocate for improved conditions in the workplace and better economic standards for their colleagues and their families.
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Monkeypox: What nurses need to know
The monkeypox virus is now spreading rapidly in many countries that have not historically had cases. Learn about the symptoms, how it is transmitted, and what protections nurses and other health care workers need to care for a patient with a confirmed case.
Gender Justice and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
This CE class will connect the current assault on reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy to the history of reproductive control and gender oppression in the U.S., paying particular attention to the complicit role medicine and health care providers have played in that history.
Q&A » Bivalent Covid Boosters
Bivalent Covid vaccines, or bivalent boosters, contain two different components for the immune system to respond to. Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s mRNA bivalent Covid-19 vaccines contain the mRNA for the spike protein for two different strains of the virus.
Long Covid: A Public Health and Occupational Emergency
As more individuals are continually exposed to and infected by SARS-CoV-2, reports of long-term health consequences have also increased. This CE class will discuss the latest scientific updates about long Covid and the implications of these scientific updates for nurses, their patients, and advocacy for safe patient care.
National Nurse Magazine
Texas nurses go big! Nurses in Austin win historic unionizing victory
Southern Revival
Mission RNs on vanguard of North Carolina organizing resurgence
No More Minnesota Nice
Twin Cities and Twin Ports RNs put hospitals on notice with massive strike
The Maine Event
Nurses at Maine Medical Center score first contract
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Covid-19 Resources
Nurses and other health care workers are on the front lines of the pandemic; their protection is of the utmost importance. View our resources on Covid-19 and protecting nurses and other health care workers and their patients.
RN-to-Patient Staffing Ratios
Registered nurses across the United States understand the need to set a minimum number of nurses to safely care for a given number of patients, with adjustments to increase nurse staffing based on patient acuity.
Workplace Violence Prevention
Violence against nurses and other health care workers in hospitals and other health care facilities is a growing epidemic across the United States. Learn more about NNU's national campaign to prevent workplace violence.