Blog: Better nursing-staffing equals lower mortality
There's a 20% lower risk that a patient will die within 30 days of having general surgery at a hospital with above average nurse staffing levels, a study released Tuesday found. Researchers compared facilities that had a mean of about 1.5 nurses per bed to those that had a mean of less than one nurse per bed.
Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare
Nurses Union Urges Attorney General to Reject St. Joseph Health’s Planned Merger
Last summer news broke that St. Joseph Health System, the Orange County-based Catholic nonprofit whose stable of medical facilities include Eureka’s St. Joseph Hospital and Fortuna’s Redwood Memorial Hospital, was pursuing a merger with Providence Health and Service, another Catholic nonprofit, based in Seattle.
Ryan Burns / Lost Coast Outpost
Maine Union Members Gather in Support of Bernie Sanders
On Saturday, January 23, union members will gather in Portland in support of Senator Bernie Sanders for president of the United States.
National Nurses Organizing Committee - MSNA
Jan 21, 2016
Nurses Ratify Agreement on New Three-Year Contract
(St. Paul) – January 19, 2016 – Minnesota Nurses Association members from five metro hospital systems ratified a new three-year contract that will give them across-the-board wage increases and protect their pensions and health benefits.
Minnesota Nurses Association
Jan 21, 2016
National Nurses’s #BernieBus Iowa Swing Underway
National Nurses United’s #BernieBus tour begins its second day of campaign stops in Iowa Wednesday, January 20, exactly one year before the next President takes office, with a 3 p.m. rally in Cedar Falls featuring noted commentator and activists Jim Hightower, the former Texas Agricultural Commissioner.
National Nurses United
Jan 20, 2016
National Nurses’s #BernieBus Arrives In Iowa Tuesday Des Moines Kickoff Rally with Union
Fresh from a successful whirlwind tour of Nevada, another early voting state, the National Nurses United’s #BernieBus tour arrives in Iowa Tuesday morning, Jan. 19 for a series of campaign events heading towards the first in the nation caucuses February 1.
National Nurses United
Jan 19, 2016
Nurses Applaud New Sanders Plan for Healthcare for All
National Nurses United today enthusiastically welcomed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new plan for achieving the dream of countless Americans for nearly a century – healthcare coverage for everyone.
National Nurses United
Jan 18, 2016
Sanders Medicare for All- Finally a Plan to Protect our Most Precious Gift, Our Health
Bernie Sanders' new plan for achieving the dream of countless Americans for nearly a century - healthcare coverage for everyone - deserves all of our thanks. And nurses will fight to make it come true.
RoseAnn DeMoro writing for The Huffington Post
Nurses Urge California AG to Deny Application for Merger of St. Joseph Health System and Providence
The nation's largest nurses organization, National Nurses United, this week called on California Attorney General Kamala Harris to reject efforts by two large Catholic hospital systems to consolidate, in a merger that NNU warns could have a major impact on the cost, quality and availability of critical hospital services.
California Nurses Association
Jan 15, 2016
Mills-Peninsula Sutter RNs Ratify New Contract
Registered nurses who work at Mills-Peninsula Health Services hospitals in San Mateo and Burlingame, Ca. voted by 92 percent Wednesday to approve a new contract becoming the latest Sutter RNs to win a new collective bargaining agreement with significant gains.
California Nurses Association
Jan 14, 2016