NNOC/NNU demands state governors, employers give nurses housing, child care, other protections
The National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) recently sent letters to governors of 18 states, as well as to hospital employers, demanding that nurses not only have the protective equipment they need to care for positive or suspected COVID-19 patients, but also that the states and employers provide nurses with housing, child care, workers’ compensation, and other protections.
Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center Nurses to Hold Action at Shift Change to Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19
Roseville, CA – To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers during this COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at Kaiser Roseville are holding an action and media availability at 3:30 p.m.
Mission Hospital RNs to Protest Lack of COVID-19 Preparedness
Registered nurses at HCA’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC will hold a public protest tonight, April 9, at 6 p.m. over what they say remains the hospital’s ongoing lagging response to preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic at a time cases are skyrocketing in the state.
Observing social distancing protocols, RNs will stand outside the hospital to survey their other RNs reporting to work at shift changes.
RN Staffing Ratios: The necessity of regulated nurse staffing ratios to ensure patient safety and improved outcomes for hospitalized patients
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As a result of the natural experiment of the nurse to patient ratio law in California, we now have evidence that nurse to patient ratios are a significant factor in patient safety and outcomes. This CE course examines the efficacy of mandated nurse to patient ratios in improving patient outcomes, so enhancing registered nurses ability to provide optimal care and work environments.
Nurses Call for More Data, Action to Address Racial Disparities During COVID-19 Crisis
Following reports of a growing racial disparity in COVID-19 deaths, National Nurses United today called on the federal government and states to provide full reporting on the demographic breakdown of the effects of the pandemic and what actions are being taken to protect historically medically underserved communities.
Pandemics and Public Health: The Critical Advocacy Role of the Registered Nurse
The COVID-19 pandemic is grabbing headlines around the world. All pandemics are public health challenges. Are your patients protected? Are you protected? Are you prepared? To find out, take this home-study course.
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Provident Hospital Nurses to Hold Action at Shift Change to Protest the Closure of Provident Hospital’s Emergency Room
Chicago, IL – To protest the abrupt and dangerous closure of Provident Hospital’s Emergency Room, registered nurses at Provident Hospital are holding an action and media availability during their shift change to describe how this closure will endanger the health and safety of the patient community Provident Hospital serves. Cook County Health Systems claim that closing the ER was unavoidable due to an anticipated rise in COVID-19 cases in which Provident’s ER was not physically designed to accommodate.
California Nurses Association (CNA) and East Bay Community Hold “Lightning” Rally in Solidarity to Demand Safer Working Conditions and for Alameda County Board of Supervisors to Takeover Alameda Health System
Alameda, CA – Alameda Health System (AHS) CNA nurses along with Bay Area human rights activists, teachers, students, and families will mobilize to uplift health care workers’ calls against inadequate preparedness and personal protective equipment (PPE) and weakened patient care standards during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nurses: Reuse, Decontamination of Masks Endangers Health Care Workers
U.S. Nurses Unions: 'Our Members Are Dying. We Demand Protections Now!'
As COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket in the United States, unions representing 230,000 nurses across the country have joined forces to demand hospitals and the government act now to give nurses optimal personal protective equipment (PPE)—including N95 respirators or higher—a demand made more dire due to the fact that nurses are beginning to die of COVID-19.