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.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
Thousands of registered nurse members of National Nurses United will hold actions on Thursday, Jan. 26 to demand the hospital industry end their profession’s staffing crisis by providing safe numbers of nurses to care for patients.
RNs at Buffalo VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Buffalo, New York will hold a nurses’ forum and press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 10, to bring to the public’s attention the hospital administration’s grievous failure to prepare for the deadly holiday snow storm as well as management’s refusal to address the chronic staffing crisis.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
No other employees at MMC have lost these benefits to date and several MMC nurses report that managers told them these benefits are ending because they joined the union.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
RNs at Mission Hospital, in Asheville, N.C., will hold a rally on Dec. 13, to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short staffing and workplace violence.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Starting Monday, Dec. 12, the hospital will eliminate the dedicated nursery nurses who receive and care for newborns, and assign this role to nurses who are watching other patients in labor, which is not safe.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Nurses are concerned about service changes or shutdowns that may occur as part of the purchase plan, which could put up to 235 patient beds at risk in downtown New Orleans.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
The scheme is officially scheduled to begin Dec. 12, but the hospital started making operational changes in units providing birth care this past summer, including reassigning nurses to the NICU without adequate training.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
RNs at Millinocket Regional Hospital in Millinocket, Maine, voted in favor of ratifying a new three-year contract on Nov. 1, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
The vigil comes less than a week after Saint Mary’s announced its plans to terminate Maternal Child Health services, displacing patients who need those vital services and nurses who work in the units caring for those patients.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
