St. Joseph RNs Ratify New Contract at Apple Valley, Eureka, and Petaluma
Registered nurses at three St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) medical centers have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement that will strengthen patient care protections and provide affordable healthcare benefits, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced today. Nurses won improved safe RN-to-patient safe staffing ratio language, successfully fought off substantial increases to their healthcare premiums, and secured removal of a punitive “wellness†program that recent studies have concluded fail to provide promised savings while penalizing employees who may have chronic health problems.
National Nurses United
Jun 19, 2013
Affinity nurses seek delay on electronic records
MASSILLON — Affinity Medical Center registered nurses are asking hospital officials to delay a new electronic health record system set to begin this weekend.
CantonRep.com
Nurses, Environmentalists to March on Golden Gate Bridge Thursday With Call to Stop Keystone XL Pipe
Nurses and environmental activists from across the U.S. are joining hands this week to step up the message that there is still time to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline before it stops all of us. Join us for a march across the Golden Bate Bridge in San Francisco Thursday, June 20, beginning with a noon rally at Battery East, near the Golden Gate Bridge Pavilion at Fort Point adjacent to the Bridge.
by Deborah Burger. First appeared in The Huffington Post
Retired RN Kay McVay Honored with 2013 “RAGE for JUSTICE†Award
Kay McVay worked as a registered nurse in critical care for nearly four decades before retiring in 1995. She is a tenacious and effective champion of patients’ rights who was elected and served as the former Vice President, and then President of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee from 1994 to 2003. As a young girl growing up in Compton, California, school counselors discouraged her aspirations to become a nurse. The rest is history.
California Nurses Association
Affinity RNs Call for Halt to Flawed Electronic Medical Records System Scheduled to Go Live Friday
Affinity Medical Center RNs in Massillon, Ohio are calling on hospital officials to delay the planned June 21 implementation of the Cerner electronic medical records (EMR) system, until the hospital bargains with the nurses and proceeds in a safe manner. The direct-care RNs, represented by the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) in Ohio, an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), say that nurses, the primary users of the complex system, have had insufficient training, which will put patients at risk.
National Nurses United
Jun 18, 2013
St. Louis University Hospital RNs Win First Contract
ST. LOUIS –Registered nurses at Saint Louis University Hospital (SLUH) have won their first ever collective bargaining agreement with a new three year contract that provides for significant improvements in patient care protections, compensation, and job protections.
NNOC-Missouri
Jun 17, 2013
This Week In America, June 14, 2013
More profits and less healthcare. In some corners of the newsroom the central story of America’s healthcare crisis – profiteering – finally has been discovered. Steve Brill in Time magazine took it on earlier this year and several have followed suit. At $2.7 trillion, the annual U.S. healthcare price tag is the biggest in the world, by far, an indication that there are vast riches reaching investors in the business of illness. There is evidence, as well, that those profits remain prodigious even as increasing numbers of sick Americans forego care.
National Nurses United
Nurses to Host Golden Gate Bridge March June 20 - Call to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline, Austerity
SAN FRANCISCO – Registered nurses from across the U.S., joined by environmental and Bay Area community activists, will step up the call on the Obama administration to reject approval of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline with a colorful march and rally at the Golden Gate Bridge Thursday, June 20.
Jun 14, 2013
Resounding Call for Hospital Safety; Pass Patient Protection Act, Say Nurses and Community Leaders
WASHINGTON, DC – A gathering of 130 registered nurses and District of Columbia community leaders and residents joined together in the Wilson Building Thursday to express strong support for the Patient Protection Act of 2013. The Act would set specific limits on the number of patients for which registered nurses can safely provide care.
Jun 14, 2013
Quincy Medical Center nurses reach deal with hospital owner Steward
Nurses at Quincy Medical Center have reached a one-year agreement on wages and staffing with Steward Health Care. In a joint press release, Steward officials and the leadership of the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United said the agreement affirms their mutual commitment to the hospital’s viability and staffing levels that assure quality patient care.
PatriotLedger.com