Registered nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., and Alhambra Hospital Medical Center in Alhambra, Calif., will strike on Thursday, May 22 to protest issues impacting patient care and safe staffing.

Mount Desert Island Hospital (MDIH) registered nurses are refusing to back down from their efforts to save Bar Harbor’s obstetrics unit, despite intimidation tactics by the hospital’s CEO and attorneys.

In a congressional briefing on Tuesday, May 20, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities across the country will share their stories about the state of veterans health care as a result of harmful actions by the current administration.

The more than 225,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United applaud the introduction of federal legislation to mandate minimum registered nurse-to-patient ratios in every hospital across the country. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky and new Senate sponsors, Sen. Alex Padilla and Sen. Jeff Merkley.

Registered nurses from across California will lobby state legislators in Sacramento, Calif., on Tuesday, May 13, to discuss nurses’ priority legislation to protect patients and nurses, announced California Nurses Association.

Registered nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., gave notice to their employer that they will hold a one-day strike to protest the hospital’s refusal to engage in good faith negotiations over needed improvements to patient care, RN working conditions, and staffing.

Global Nurses United, the premier federation of international nurse unions representing more than 2.5 million nurses and other health care workers in 35 countries around the world, released Global Crisis, Collective Solution: Addressing the Worldwide Nurse Staffing Crisis, a groundbreaking report examining the nurse staffing crisis affecting healthcare systems across the planet.

Registered nurses at Hines VA Medical Center in Hines, Ill. will hold a rally on Saturday, May 10, to demand the administration abandon plans to cut some 80,000 workers from the VA and to reinstate VA workers’ full union rights.