Global Nurses United

Global Nurses United (GNU) aims to step up fight against austerity, privatization, attacks on public health and work for safe nurse staffing ratios, and improved patient care for all.

Global Nurses United is a federation of the premiere nurse and health care worker unions in 29 nations, coming together to step up the fight against austerity, privatization, and attacks on public health—and to work for nurses’ and workers’ rights and improved patient care for all.

International Nurses Day 2020 COVID-19 Memorial

On International Nurses Day - May 12, 2020 - National Nurses United and Global Nurses United honor all nurses around the globe who have died as a result of insufficient PPE and infection control policies during the COVID-19 crisis. Click here for the full list of nurses.

Federación de Enfermeras del Ministério de Salud del Perú

NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo with nurses demanding appropriate protection against Covid-19

National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN named as TIME 100 most influential people in the world

Bonnie Castillo, RN, executive director of National Nurses United has been named by TIME to the 2020 TIME 100, its annual list of the most influential people in the world. “This award is a great honor for all of our nurse members, across the country, and for nurses everywhere, union and non-union,” said Castillo.

National Nurses United

September 22, 2020

• NNU

• International

Global Nurses United Leaders Demand World Health Organization Strengthen Its Guidance on Prevention and Control of Coronavirus

Leaders of an international federation of nurse and health care worker unions from 28 countries, Global Nurses United (GNU), sent a letter today to the World Health Organization, demanding that WHO strengthen its interim guidance on infection prevention and control of the novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV.

Global Nurses United

January 29, 2020

• Infectious Disease

• International