RNs Applaud Reintroduction of Federal Safe Staffing Bills Mandating Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

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Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
National Nurses United applauds the reintroduction of the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown in the Senate and Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the House. This important legislation addresses an epidemic of deliberate understaffing in our nation’s hospitals that puts patients and the public at risk, said National Nurses United.
National Nurses United
May 8, 2019

This Nurses Week, all the pizza in the world won’t make up for our employers’ lack of respect

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Each year, there’s a special week to honor America’s most trusted profession: nurses! We become nurses because it’s our calling, and we do it for our patients, not for accolades. But we also know that the oath we take to help and heal all people — is constantly hindered by employers who cut corners to boost profits. And that makes management’s “We appreciate you!” box of Krispy Kremes during Nurses Week fall a bit flat.
Bonnie Castillo , Executive Director of National Nurses United

Registered Nurses Tell California Lawmakers: Honor National Nurses Week by Improving Patient Safety Protections

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Nurses visiting Calif. legislator

Hundreds of registered nurses with the California Nurses Association (CNA) are gathering in Sacramento, Tuesday, May 7, 2019 to meet with state legislators to urge the passage of a number of signature bills that protect the health and well-being of registered nurses, their patients and the public.
 

California Nurses Association
May 6, 2019

First Senate Hearing on Nevada Workplace Violence Prevention Bill

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Nurses outside Nevada legislature
Health care workers with National Nurses Organizing Committee-Nevada/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1107 will appear before Nevada senators on Friday, May 3, 2019 to call for the passage of the state’s first workplace violence prevention bill, A.B. 348.
National Nurses Organizing Committee
May 2, 2019

Nurses Call Congressional Budget Office Report “an Important Step Forward in the Process of Achieving Medicare for All”

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Nurses outside Capitol
“Coming off of yesterday’s historic House Rules Committee hearing on Medicare for All, and a newly announced, impending hearing in the Ways and Means Committee, nurses are excited to see Congress further taking this life-saving legislation seriously by releasing a CBO report on Medicare for All.
National Nurses United
May 1, 2019