Six Black nurses and health care workers who fought for Black liberation
The stories of these six Black nurses and health care workers teach us to imagine the impossible, to fight for justice, and to collectively build institutions that advance freedom while challenging those that would keep it from us.
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Nurses look forward after year of achievements – new year begins with national day of action for safe staffing
Following a year of major contract gains across the country, nurses are pledging to step up actions to demand the hospital industry end their profession’s staffing crisis by providing safe numbers of nurses to care for patients.
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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 has set the stage for the respiratory viral surge to be another crisis. Learn more about what nurses and other health care workers need to know.
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.
A Quad-demic of Respiratory Viral Infections
This CE course will discuss circulating respiratory viral infections, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza, and Covid-19, often referred to as the “tripledemic.” Participants will then explore how the hospital industry’s normalizing of crisis standards of care has set the stage for the surge in respiratory viruses to become a crisis in health care.
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
New York State Nurses Association joins forces with National Nurses United
NYSNA votes to join NNU
This historic affiliation grows the national movement of nurses, advancing interests of patients, RNs
Caught in a TRAP
Hospitals are increasingly forcing new RNs to sign exploitative training repayment contracts to get hired. NNU is fighting back, on behalf of nurses, patients, and the profession.
Twin Cities and Twin Ports nurses win historic contracts
15,000 nurses in 15 hospitals ratify new agreements
Campaigns
Gig Nursing
Health care investors and employers want to eliminate nurses’ rights and benefits by pushing nurses toward gig work and misclassifying us as independent contractors.
Home All Alone
The hospital industry peddling programs to treat acute-care patients in their homes. Home All Alone programs are directly opposed to the hands-on human to human approach to nursing.
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.