Reflections of Katrina Nurses: Hope and Resolve - National Nurses Group Continues Work
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, countless numbers watched, and listened, to the growing chaos in disbelief. Thousands of registered nurses from across the nation, frustrated in their efforts to volunteer through government or private relief agencies turned to the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association to do what they do best provide hands-on, front line care to the sick and injured.
Press Release
Jan 1, 2011
CNA/NNOC Nurse Volunteers Deployed To Southern California Firestorm
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee has sent volunteer registered nurses through its Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) to Southern California to assist in responding to the spreading disaster created by wildfires in the region.
Press Release
Jan 1, 2011
Action Stirs In Face Of Wildfire Losses
Brian Merrel, a machinist at Metric Machine in Ontario, got an anxious call at work Oct. 22 from his wife, Amanda. "You'd better get home now. It's right behind us."
The Business Press
New Orleans Nurses Turn Home Into Clinic
The sign on the gate in front of the pretty blue house announced the good news to a neighborhood that has had little since Hurricane Katrina: "There's a doctor in the house. Make your appointment NOW!"
Associated Press
Watsonville Community Hospital nurses picket in a demand for more staff
Scores of nurses demonstrated in front of Watsonville Community Hospital Thursday, protesting what they say is the hospital's practice of employing so few nurses and medical assistants that patients are receiving substandard care.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Some Tampa Bay area nurses looking to unionize
In February, about 175 nurses rallied in Tallahassee, complaining that they often have too many patients to properly look after them all. Clad in red scrubs and coats, the nurses asked for a law creating specific nurse-patient ratios at health care facilities throughout the state.
St. Petersburg Tiimes
Watsonville RNs Hold Holiday Picket for Safer Patient Care
Dozens of Registered Nurses from Watsonville Community Hospital joined a holiday picket December 23 to protest patient care problems throughout the facility.
Press Release
Dec 23, 2010
1-day nurse strike looks likely
Though officials from both the nurses union and Wilkes-Barre General Hospital indicated the aversion of Thursday’s planned 24-hour strike was still possible, neither side sounded like that possibility was a strong one.
WILKES-BARRE
Arbitrator Orders Washington Hospital Center To Reinstate Veteran Nurse Fired During Blizzard
The union that represents 1,600 registered nurses at Washington Hospital Center today celebrated an arbitrator’s decision that reversed a decision last February to fire one of the 18 registered nurses who were unable to get to work at the peak of crippling snow storms that paralyzed the capital region.
Press Release
Dec 22, 2010
Nurses Welcome News of Help for 9/11 Responders
News of an agreement in the Senate to provide some help for first responders, volunteers, and others adversely affected by the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 was welcomed today by the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses.
Press Release
Dec 22, 2010