Statement by National Nurses United Nurses About Making Homemade Facemasks for Health Care Workers

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National Nurses United RN members are touched and extremely grateful for the many people graciously offering their time and effort to produce homemade masks from cloth and similar materials at a time when our members are severely short of proper personal protective equipment (PPE).
 
It is true that if nurses are infected and become sick, all of us are at greater risk. If we are sick, who will take care of patients in the face of this terrifying pandemic?
 

Union Workers in the Building Trades Donate Masks to Nurses Amidst Government Inaction

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Today, North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), an alliance of fourteen affiliated unions collectively representing over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the building and construction industry, announced a partnership with National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in America, to donate N-95 respirator masks and other protective equipment to nurses.

National Nurses United and North America’s Building Trades Unions
Mar 23, 2020

Nurses: California Needs to Do More on Protective Gear

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The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United today called on California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials to sharply escalate steps to get immediately personal protective equipment to nurses and other health care workers.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Mar 21, 2020

Updated COVID-19 survey of registered nurses shows little improvement and worsening availability of personal protective equipment

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A nationwide survey National Nurses United (NNU) has been conducting of registered nurses, the country’s frontline health care staff, continues to show that the vast majority of United States hospitals and health care facilities are still unprepared to handle and contain cases of COVID-19.
National Nurses United / California Nurses Association / NNOC
Mar 20, 2020

Global Nurses United Press Clips

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See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.
Global Nurses United