Los Angeles County public hearing Wednesday—Emergency Services Commission Amid pandemic, nurses to urge LA County to press Alecto, UCLA to keep Olympia Medical Center open

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Olympia Medical Center RNs circulating flyers for virtual press conference and petitions
At a public hearing by the Los Angeles County Emergency Services Commission Wednesday morning, registered nurses will call on Los Angeles County officials to step up pressure on Alecto Health Services and UCLA Health to keep Olympia Medical Center open at least for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Jan 26, 2021

UC San Diego Nurses demand safe staffing to save lives

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UC San Diego Nurses
Registered nurses at UCSD will hold a press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 27 to call on the University of California (UC) to staff for safe patient care and stop elective surgeries.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Jan 26, 2021

End Waivers

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Tell CDPH: End waivers of safe staffing standards!

Instead of preparing for the winter surge of Covid-19, California hospitals lobbied the California Department of Public Health for waivers of California’s landmark safe staffing law, which requires minimum levels of safe registered nurse staffing for various hospital units. Now is not the time to roll back safety standards.

Thousands of nurses and health care workers hold events nationwide Jan. 27 to demand hospital employers put patients first during Covid and beyond

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Nurses
Thousands of registered nurse and health care worker members of National Nurses United (NNU), the country’s largest union and professional association of RNs, will be holding hundreds of socially distanced events in more than 19 states and the District of Columbia on Jan. 27 to demand that their hospital employers put patients first above profit motives in how patient care is delivered.
National Nurses United
Jan 25, 2021

Nurses Applaud Biden’s National Strategy for the Covid-19 Response

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President Joe Biden
National Nurses United applauded and enthusiastically welcomed President Biden’s new National Strategy for the Covid-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, released on January 21; the executive orders and actions related to Covid-19 that the president signed on his first three days in office; and his stimulus plan, the American Rescue Plan, released on January 14.
National Nurses United
Jan 22, 2021

January 27th National Day of Action Times and Locations

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As firsthand witnesses and actual victims during this Covid-19 crisis of a health care and economic system that prioritizes money over people, registered nurse members of National Nurses United are holding on Jan. 27th more than 200 actions inside and outside hospital facilities in at least 19 states and the District of Columbia to demand that our elected leaders, government, and hospital employers take immediate action to save lives.