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).

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.

RNs organizing unprecedented, grassroots movement to back the bill

Representatives Pramila Jayapal, Debbie Dingell, other members of Congress, and advocates including National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, will introduce the Medicare For All Act of 2019 on Wednesday, February 27 at 11:15 a.m. EST.
 

Registered nurses with National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United at MedStar Washington Hospital Center voted overwhelmingly this past weekend to ratify a new five-year contract. The contract, covering 1,900 registered nurses at the hospital, features a host of improvements and protections for both nurses and patients.