Nurses take next step with national disaster organization
HOUSTON - Nurse Bonnie Castillo remembers hearing from officials that the medical situation in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck was "fine" - volunteers weren't needed.
Star-Telegram
Nursing group ready to send volunteers to scenes of disaster
Doug Smith, a registered nurse at Swedish Hospital, remembers getting annoyed as he watched the official response to Hurricane Katrina.
Rocky Mountain News
Free health clinic opening to help Lower 9 come back - Volunteers, donors make service possible
Eighteen months after the levee failures and Hurricane Katrina shattered the Lower 9th Ward, residents this week welcomed the opening of a free health clinic on St. Claude Avenue.
Times Picayune
Nurses prepare disaster response - CNA builds fund for RN network
The California Nurses Association found a new use last year for its ability to organize nurses quickly. It sent more than 300 nurses to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
East Bay Business Journal
Emotional connections: Nurses find mission to Gulf changed their lives
After two weeks of treating desperate and scared families who survived thrashing flood waters and vicious winds with only their lives, the emotional connection to work became — and remains — unavoidable.
Vallejo Times Herald
Ashley Forsberg, RN, Helps Haiti Earthquake Victims
Ashley Forsberg, RN, a medical/surgical nurse from Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan is brimming with emotion from her relief work in Haiti on the Navy ship USNS Comfort.
Deborah Burger, RN, NNU Council of Presidents Helps Haiti Earthquake Victims
When the terrible earthquake struck Haiti, followed by a flood of media attention and global concern, RNs in America knew one thing: nurses would be in Haiti long after the TV cameras left.
RNRN Blog
National RN Relief Group Teams Up With Navy for Medical Mission to Haiti
The first team of registered nurse volunteers from California, Michigan, and Washington State will depart for Haiti Wednesday morning with the Department of Defense’s Continuing Promise, National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses, announced today.
RNRN Blog
Motivated by Katrina - National RN Response Network Launches
Vowing not to endure another year of government ineptitude in responding to human tragedy, the California Nurses Association (CNA) and its National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) will announce a national RN Response Network (RNRN), appealing to RNs nationwide to join a coordinated effort to quickly move nurses into areas like those devastated last year by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Press Release
Jan 1, 2011
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