North Dakota nurses’ vote is victory for unions everywhere
On International Women’s Day, Let’s Honor the ‘Caring Professions’ for What They Are: Warriors
When the deadliest wildfire in California history wiped an entire city off the map last November, volunteer registered nurses cancelled their Thanksgiving plans, strapped on respirators, and headed straight into the heart of disaster.
This is what it looks like to care.
National Nurses Statement on Rep. Ilhan Omar, Bigotry, and the Bid to Silence Progressive Women of Color
National Nurses United opposes the attacks on Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and the broader campaign to marginalize and silence progressive voices of elected women of color.
NNU has long been on record condemning anti-Semitism, racism, Islamaphobia, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender or national origin. The present debate over Rep. Omar, however, has only served to misrepresent the real threats and bigotry.
International Nurse News Round-Up
It's time for legislators to prove democracy exists by passing Medicare for All
RNs Commend House Hearing on Preventing Workplace Violence in Health Care, Social Service Settings
Hearing important step forward for federal workplace violence prevention bill, say nurses
The House Committee on Education and Labor will be holding a hearing Wednesday, Feb. 27 on protecting health care and social workers from workplace violence—a move nurses say is an important step in advancing the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (HR 1309), recently re-introduced by Representative Joe Courtney (CT-2).
Nurses Answer the Call: RNRN/NNU Sends More Volunteers to Care for Migrants and Asylum Seekers at the Border
The Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a disaster-relief project of the California Nurses Foundation and National Nurses United, will send a new team of volunteer nurses to Tucson, Ariz., March 1 through March 4 to assist in providing basic medical support to migrants and asylum seekers. National Nurses United (NNU) is concerned that migrant families, including their young children, are in need of medical care after their long and arduous journey and detention in federal facilities.
