The Blog

RNs Fight to Protect Florida’s Drinking Water

National Nurses United RNs are fighting to protect Florida’s drinking water with a ban on all forms of fracking for oil or natural gas in the state.

National Nurses Organizing Committee

February 6, 2019

• Environmental Justice

• Florida

Giant steps – the next stage in the fight for Medicare for All

The long journey toward transforming our health care system to ensure that all our nation’s people get the care they need is entering its next major phase.

Zenei Cortez, RN

January 24, 2019

• Medicare For All

• Nationwide

Nurses in California Celebrate 15 Years of Life Saving RN to Patient Ratios Law

California’s historic first-in-the-nation safe staffing ratios, sponsored by the California Nurses Association, took 13 years to win.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

January 8, 2019

• Nurse Talk• Safe Staffing Ratios

2019: The Year of Medicare for All

Behind all of the disheartening statistics found in the current for-profit syustem are real people, enduring pain and suffering that should be unacceptable in the wealthiest country on earth.

Zenei Cortez, RN, Co-President of National Nurses United

January 2, 2019

• Medicare For All

An Interview with Executive Director for Healthcare NOW Ben Day

Ben Day is no stranger to the National Single Payer movement. He currently serves as Executive Director of Healthcare NOW and prior to taking on this role he was the Executive Director of MASS-Care, the Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, for eight years.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

December 4, 2018

• Nurse Talk