Bring Friends to 'A Fair Drug Pricing' Town Hall & Short Documentary Screening This Saturday
This Saturday (Thursday for Riverside), in cities throughout California, you can join nurses, veterans and seniors at a sneak preview of a new documentary film about pharmaceutical greed, and discuss the groundbreaking changes Proposition 61 will bring for many Californians struggling to afford medications.
California Nurses Association
RN's Volunteer at the Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Site
RN and Nursing Practice and Safety Specialist for National Nurses United, De Ann McEwen, talks with Nurse Talk Radio about the Registered Nurses Response Network.
Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
Nurses Plan GOTV Mobilization Oct. 25 to Win Seats on Sarasota Memorial Hospital Board
Nurses from throughout Southwest Florida will gather October 25 to get out the vote for five Sarasota Memorial Hospital Board candidates that they say will promote improved patient safety at the hospital.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United - Florida
Oct 24, 2016
RN Report: Pharma Giants Spend Far More on Marketing, Sales Than They Do on Research and Development
In justifying skyrocketing drug prices, the pharmaceutical industry typically claims that it needs massive profits to conduct research and development (R&D) for critical new medications. But the drug giants actually spend far more of their enormous wealth on marketing and sales than they do on R&D
California Nurses Association
Oct 21, 2016
International Nurse News Round-Up
See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.
Global Nurses United
Nurses say Jane Kim for state Senate to heal California
There’s a heartbreak to any patient’s cancer diagnosis. So imagine watching my recent patient fight through treatment, knowing that when she exited the hospital, onto San Francisco’s streets, her health would simply unravel because she has no home, no shelter, nowhere to go.
Maureen Dugan, San Francisco Examiner
Op-Ed - Bernie Sanders: Stand up to Big Pharma greed Vote yes on Proposition 61
Prescription drug prices in the United States are the highest in the world — by far. Californians on Nov. 8 have a chance to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry’s greed and spark a national movement to end this price-gouging.
Senator Bernie Sanders, writing in the LA Times
Nurses Celebrate California’s New Regulations to Prevent Workplace Violence in Healthcare Settings
The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (OSHSB) today voted unanimously to approve nation-leading regulations to prevent workplace violence in healthcare settings.
California Nurses Association
Oct 20, 2016
Stop the greed
As a registered nurse who has worked many years in a San Francisco hospital, I see firsthand how patients’ conditions are aggravated by their inability to pay for their medications. Making choices between paying for their meals, rent and medicine is a day-to-day reality for many.
Jane Sandoval, RN writing in the San Francisco Chronicle
Nurses Vote Unanimously to Ratify Contract With San Leandro Hospital
Registered nurses at San Leandro Hospital voted unanimously to ratify a new contract, the California Nurses Association announced today.
California Nurses Association
Oct 19, 2016