Proposition 61 Will Help Reduce Outrageous Prescription Drug Prices
As public outrage has erupted over a 500 percent price increase for life-saving EpiPens and a $1,000-per-pill cost for the most effective hepatitis C treatment, the pharmaceutical industry appears to be beyond shame.
Kathy Dennis writing in the Sacramento Bee
New RN Report: Pharma CEOs Reaped $2.8 Billion Last Year While Implementing Massive Price Hikes
Top pharmaceutical executives are making billions of dollars in compensation while implementing skyrocketing price increases for essential medications, according a new research report released today by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
California Nurses Association
Oct 10, 2016
National Nurses United Supports Colorado Single Payer Amendment
Nurses and over 200 other organizations are supporting Colorado Amendment 69, single payer healthcare for all Coloradans.
Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
Yes on Prop. 61: Veterans, Nurses and Elected Officials to Hold Press Conference in San Francisco
San Francisco Supervisor David Campos and San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim will join Veterans; Co-President of the California Nurses Association Deborah Burger, and others at a press conference where they will rally supporters to stand up against the pharmaceutical giants.
California Nurses Association
Oct 10, 2016
Registered Nurse Response Network Sends Nurse Volunteers to Assist With First Aid at Standing Rock
National Nurses United (NNU)’s Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a national network of volunteer direct-care RNs, will deploy nurse volunteers to help existing medical volunteers at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation meet first aid needs for thousands of land and water protectors as winter approaches, NNU announced today.
National Nurses United
Oct 10, 2016
Nurses at Alameda Hospital Vote Unanimously to Approve New Contract
Registered nurses at Alameda Hospital in Alameda, Calif. voted unanimously to ratify a new contract, the California Nurses Association announced today.
California Nurses Association
Oct 7, 2016
Global Nurses United of Nurse, Healthcare Worker Unions, Born
Leaders of the premiere nurses and health care workers unions in 14 nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe have announced plans to form a new international organization to step up the fight against the harmful effects of austerity measures, privatization, and cuts in health care services that they say are putting people and communities at risk across the planet.
Global Nurses United
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 Applaud San Luis Obispo Vote to Reject Phillips 66 Oil Train Project, Cite Public Safety
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United today welcomed the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission vote Wednesday to reject a controversial Phillips 66 proposal to transport millions of gallons of crude tar sands oil through the county by rail every week.
California Nurses Association
Oct 6, 2016
How to Cut Drug Prices? California Can Set a Model With Prop. 61
Despite all the disgust with pharmaceutical price gouging and the public shaming of CEOs like Heather Bresch of EpiPen infamy and “pharma bro†Martin Shkreli, we’ve yet to see any concrete steps to actually cut drug prices.
Deborah Burger, RN writing for Common Dreams