National Nurses United Covid-19 Bibliography
This is an annotated bibliography of some of the relevant scientific literature on SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19. The nursing profession is rooted in science and the protection of nurses should also reflect both emerging scientific research and the precautionary principle. The precautionary principle asserts that we should not wait for scientific proof of harm before taking action to protect people’s health. Protections for nurses and other health care workers should be proactive and preventive, based on the precautionary principle, rather than reactive to Covid-19.
San Joaquin County nurses ratify a new contract with protections to improve patient safety
Registered nurses at San Joaquin General Hospital in French Camp, Calif., overwhelmingly ratified a new two-year contract today, winning protections to improve patient safety.
California Nurses Association
Apr 1, 2021
New law requiring hospitals to maintain a three-month supply of PPE takes effect April 1
Nurses welcome the April 1, 2021 implementation of a new law requiring hospitals to create and maintain a three-month stockpile of N95 respirators, gowns, and other personal protective equipment (PPE).
California Nurses Association
Mar 31, 2021
HCA’s Good Samaritan San Jose RNs to protest unsafe staffing
Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose will hold an action Thursday, April 1 to warn the public that severe short staffing in women’s and children’s services at the hospital is putting laboring women and newborns in danger.
California Nurses Association
Mar 30, 2021
HCA RN, Community Leader Describe Impact of an HCA Buyout Joining Concerns on Bid for Vidalia’s Meadows Regional Med Ctr
Two witnesses to an HCA Healthcare acquisition of a community hospital in North Carolina joined others Thursday in raising concerns about HCA’s proposed takeover of Meadows Regional Medical Center in Vidalia, Ga.
National Nurses United
Mar 26, 2021
Cal/OSHA finds Alta Bates campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center guilty of eight violations, cites Sutter for additional $141,750
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued an additional $141,750 in fines to Sutter Health—along with eight new citations—for failing to notify nurses in two units at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Alta Bates Campus in Berkeley, Calif. that they had been exposed to Covid.
California Nurses Association
Mar 26, 2021
University of California nurses condemn ongoing racist attacks on Asian communities
University of California registered nurses are outraged by the ongoing racist and xenophobic attacks against Asians and call for solidarity with Asian communities and a public commitment to solutions that work toward ending structural racism and promoting social equity and healing.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Mar 25, 2021
Health care workers at Methodist Hospital of Southern California voice patient safety concerns
Health care workers at Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia, Calif., will hold a picket and car caravan on Friday, March 26 to highlight their patient safety concerns, including short-staffing and poor infection control throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Caregiver and Healthcare Employees Union
Mar 24, 2021
NNU Applauds House Committee Vote to Advance Bill Protecting Health Care, Social Service Workers from Epidemic of Workplace Violence
National Nurses United (NNU) applauds the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s approval of the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1195), federal legislation that would help stem an epidemic of threats and assaults facing frontline health workers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
National Nurses United
Mar 24, 2021
Maine Elected Leaders Request Northern Light Drop its Concessionary Labor Contract Demands of Nurses
A group of Maine lawmakers, including members of the Bangor City Council, today delivered a signed letter to Northern Light Home Care and Hospice in Bangor, urging the health care provider to drop its current demands for concessions of its nurses and settle their union contract.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
Mar 24, 2021