RNs Warn Fast Track, Trade Deals Threat to Public Health
Warning of a significant threat to public health, delegations of California registered nurses will hold a press conference in Sacramento Tuesday morning, and visit district offices of several key Congress members, to emphasize their opposition to “fast track†authority for the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.
California Nurses Association
Mar 9, 2015
RNs Warn Safety Standards Eroding at Kaiser LA Medical Center
Registered nurses from Kaiser Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC) rallied outside the hospital March 5, to call attention to what they view as eroding conditions for their patients.
California Nurses Association
Mar 5, 2015
Sutter Roseville RNs Picketed Hospital Today in Protest Over Safe Staffing
ROSEVILLE—Registered nurses at Sutter Roseville Medical Center held an informational picket today, Thursday, March 5, over ongoing concerns regarding staffing and patient care that RNs say hospital officials have refused to address.
California Nurses Association
Mar 5, 2015
Sutter Roseville RNs To Picket Hospital Thursday, Protest Over Safe Staffing, Patient Care Concerns
Registered nurses at Sutter Roseville Medical Center will hold an informational picket Thursday, March 5, over ongoing concerns regarding staffing and patient care that hospital officials have refused to address, RNs say.
California Nurses Association
Mar 4, 2015
Registered Nurses at Oroville Hospital Unanimously Ratify New Contract
The Registered Nurses at Oroville Hospital unanimously ratified a new contract yesterday that strengthens the voice of nurses in improving the quality of patient care, including safe staffing.
California Nurses Association
Mar 3, 2015
Electronic Records System Failure at Antelope Valley Hospital Prompts Nurses’ Concerns for Patient
Registered nurses at Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, Ca have asked the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to investigate the failure of an electronic health records system at their hospital last weekend which they say led to the closure of the hospital emergency room and multiple other problems that put patients at risk.
California Nurses Association
Mar 2, 2015
RNs Welcome Senate Bill 483 to Step Up Public Oversight, Safety Protections For Patients in Hospital
Senate Bill 483, authored by Sen. Jim Beall and sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, seeks to extend protections for “observation†patients that are provided to other patients in the hospital setting.
California Nurses Association
Mar 2, 2015
RNs Joined Council Members, Community Leaders to Demand Safe Patient Staffing in DC
WASHINGTON D.C.—In an effort to dramatically improve care at District of Columbia hospitals, registered nurses represented by National Nurses United joined with D.C. Council members and community leaders at a press conference this morning, to announce the introduction of the 2015 Patient Protection Act.
National Nurses United
Mar 2, 2015
Free of Ebola but Not Fear
Experimental drugs and special care helped make Nina Pham Ebola free. But today she fears she may never escape the deadly disease.
The 26-year-old nurse says she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
She says the hospital and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed her and her colleagues who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola.
Jennifer Emily, Dallas Morning News
Nurse Nina Pham suing hospital where she contracted Ebola
The first nurse to contract Ebola in the U.S. is now suing the hospital she says is responsible.
Nurse Nina Pham treated patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in October last year. Duncan was the first patient in the U.S. confirmed to have Ebola and died days after tests came back positive.
Dayton Daily News