National Nurses United Endorses Consumer Advocate Elizabeth Warren for US Senate Race
Heralding the candidacy of “Main Street Hero†Elizabeth Warren, the 170,000 member National Nurses United today announced it has endorsed Warren’s exploratory candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, and urged her to officially enter the race.
Press Release
Aug 23, 2011
Nurses Protest What They Say Are Unsafe Staffing Levels
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- At least 200 registered nurses held a protest Tuesday morning to show their opposition to what they say are chronic unsafe nurse-to-patient staffing levels at Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek hospital, according to California Nurses Association spokeswoman Debra Grabelle.
KTVU.com
Mid-Michigan District Health Department nurses ratify four-year contract
Okemos - The registered nurses at Mid Michigan District Health Department ratified a new four year collective bargaining agreement last week, a few days before the Board of Commissioners also ratified the agreement.
Press Release
Aug 23, 2011
National Nurses Director RoseAnn DeMoro, Makes Most Influential Healthcare List 10 Straight Years
For the tenth straight year, National Nurses United Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro has won national recognition from a major healthcare industry publication as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare†which was announced today.
NNU Press Release
Aug 22, 2011
Kaiser Walnut Creek RNs picket for safe patient care, Tuesday
Registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Walnut Creek are holding an informational picket Tuesday, August 23, to protest chronic unsafe nurse-to-patient staffing levels, that they say are jeopardizing patient safety at the facility, the California Nurses Association announced today.
Press Release
Aug 22, 2011
Nurses say: Join Us on Sept. 1 on Main Street, Don’t Return to DC
By: Donna Smith. Main Street, USA – Nurses call their neighbors and their elected officials to come to Main Street on September 1, even as many of the elected officials continue chiding one another about returning to DC.
Main Street Blog
Demonstration draws attention to staffing problems at hospital
About 50 nurses and their family members and friends held an hour-long informational picket today outside Las Palmas Medical Center to bring public attention to what the nurses say is a staffing problem hurting patient care at the hospital.
El Paso Times
After Three Years of Hand-Wringing San Leandro Joins Fight To Save Its Hospital
Like in Washington, the people running San Leandro failed to listened to their constituents with tangible action. It took the City of San Leandro three years to make a move on the issue with this week's filing of an amicus brief in support of theEden Township Healthcare District's appellate case against Sutter Health to maintain services at San Leandro Hospital. Why did it take so long? The same reason why Congress is unable to help its constituents with jobs and a positive belief in the future: poor leadership that comes with institutional hand-wringing.
East Bay Citizen
Nurses Go Public with Urgent Patient Care Issues at Las Palmas Medical Center
Registered nurses, members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee-Texas/National Nurses United, the largest professional association and union of registered nurses in the country with 170,000 members, will hold a rally outside Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso on Thursday, August 18, at 11:30 a.m., to put before the public serious patient care issues at the hospital.
Aug 16, 2011
Stories from Main Street: Catie Sager, RN, says everyone deserves to retire with dignity.
For years, Americans believed if we worked hard, took care of our families, and followed the rules that we would eventually be allowed to retire with dignity. That’s not the case anymore.
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