International Nurse News Round-Up
RNs Warn: Public Health Crisis in Threat to Close Affinity Hospital Pledge to Work with Elected Leaders, Community to Save Hospital
Nurses Catch Assembly Speaker in Lie About Healthy California Bill
National Nurses United Endorses Marie Newman Against Incumbent Rep. Dan Lipinski in Illinois 3rd Congressional District
National Nurses United (NNU), the nation's largest and fastest growing union of registered nurses with more than with 150,000 RNs across the country, including 6,500 in Illinois, today announced its endorsement of Marie Newman for Congress. Newman is running against Rep.
Editorial: Protect Bayfront’s safety net of care
For generations, Bayfront hospital in St. Petersburg has been where poor and uninsured residents regularly turned for quality health care. Now the hospital’s for-profit owner has offered to buy the minority stake owned by a local nonprofit that acts as a watchdog, which would silence the last community voice in the hospital’s operations. It might make financial sense for the nonprofit, but Bayfront remains a critical safety net and city officials must take additional steps to preserve and protect that mission.
Nurses Plan Candlelight Vigil in Redding December 28 to Raise Community Awareness of Patient Care Concerns at Shasta Regional Medical Center
Registered Nurses at Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Redding will hold a candlelight vigil Thursday, December 28, to draw the community's attention to critical patient care issues SRMC management and Prime Healthcare Services, the parent company, have refused to address in a timely manner.
Nurses Top Gallup Poll as Most Trusted Profession 16 Years Running
Encore of RN and NNU Co-President Deborah Burger's "State of the Nurses Union"
This week we share one of the most critical Nurse Talk Radio interviews of 2017---The State Of The Union with RN and Co-President of National Nurses United, Deborah Burger. At a time when the Republican Party is set on the destruction of organized labor in this country National Nurses United (the largest Union of Registered Nurses with over 150,000 members) is gaining members and momentum both nationally and globally. "When fighting for our patients, nurses are stronger when we come together" said Burger.
Arcata City Council Votes Unanimously to Support Healthy California Act SB 562
Nurses at Hemet Valley Med Center Win Economic Improvements, Strengthen Contract Protections
Registered Nurses at Hemet Valley Medical Center in southern Riverside County have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year collective bargaining agreement that will provide economic improvements while rebuffing reductions in contract protections, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced today.
RNs at Hemet are voting on the proposed agreement in membership meetings at the hospital today. CNA represents 300 nurses at the facility.