Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, nurses and health care workers have called for employers and governments to follow the precautionary principle—that we shouldn’t wait for proof of harm before implementing measures to protect health. With a novel virus like the one that causes Covid-19, we needed to start with the highest level of protections, taking layers off as we learned because adding protections after the fact is not possible.

Nurses - we know and appreciate how hard you are working on behalf of your patients during this unprecedented pandemic. With you, we are fighting for the best protections for your patients and yourself. Part of that protection is to support one another.

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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.