A quick look at The Women's Global Health Leadership Certificate Program
A quick look at the Women's Global Health Leadership Certificate Program with recent course graduate RN Jana Sui and NNU Education Director Michelle Grisat.
Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
Excessive Health Care Injuries Can be Prevented by Bill Requiring Safe Patient Handling Practices
Beth Piknick was 21 years into her nursing career when she helped another nurse move a patient into bed at Cape Cod Hospital. That movement – performed by nurses every day across the country – sent a stabbing pain into Piknick’s back and derailed her career as an Intensive Care Unit nurse.
Massachusetts Nurses Association
Dec 7, 2015
How Gavin Newsom Keeps Getting Ahead of the Pack
Two things were evident amid the fusillades of confetti and extended glad-handing at last week's endorsement of gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom by the politically powerful California Nurses Association.
Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times
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
Two Western Mass hospitals praised in federal reports on preventing workplace violence
SPRINGFIELD - Two hospitals that are part of the Sisters of Providence Health System are highlighted for their safety procedures in a new federal government report, "Preventing Workplace Violence: A Road Map for Healthcare Facilities."
Anne-Gerard Flynn / Mass Live
Nurses join with partner environmental groups to demand climate justice now
More than 1,200 California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee registered nurses, environmental and healthcare activists, and students on Dec. 3 marched and rallied in Los Angeles to demand that the world’s leaders, now convening in Paris for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, adopt a binding and enforceable climate treaty, commit resources to fund the transformation to clean, renewable energy including a just transition program for those who now work in the fossil fuel industry, and call on wealthy, developed countries to provide resources for the less-developed countries to act on climate, with funding coming from a carbon tax and the Robin Hood tax.
National Nurses United
California nurses union endorses Gavin Newsom in governor's race
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was greeted by raucous applause and blasts of confetti Wednesday as he took the stage to receive his first major endorsement in his 2018 campaign for governor from a labor union representing nurses in California.
Javier Panzar and John Myers, Los Angeles Times
From Paris to Los Angeles The Climate Crisis is a Public Health Crisis
Nurses and environmental activists will converge for an action in downtown Los Angeles today to demand a global agreement that reduces greenhouse gas pollution and supports a sustainable energy future at United Nations Climate Summit, COP21, that began Monday in Paris.
Organizers predict that the Los Angeles climate action will be even larger than expected since the French government prohibited the mass mobilizations that were planned in Paris on the eve of the summit, citing the heightened security situation.
California Nurses Association
Dec 3, 2015
San Bernardino County Nurses Voice Concern, Support For the Wounded, and Others Affected in Shooting
Registered nurses who work at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center and other San Bernardino County health facilities late today voiced concern and support for those wounded and other county workers affected by the nation’s latest mass shooting.
California Nurses Association
Dec 2, 2015
California nurses union endorses Gavin Newsom in governor's race
A labor union representing nurses throughout California gave Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom an early endorsement in his 2018 campaign for governor Wednesday.
The Democratic hopeful was set to speak to the group's conference in Los Angeles.
Javier Panzar / Los Angeles Times