The largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States, National Nurses United, issued this statement in response to learning of the murders of couple Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, two Israeli Embassy aides, in Washington, D.C.

Registered nurses across the Silver State are celebrating today as new legislation, which would set maximum legal limits for the number of patients a nurse can be assigned, advances from the Nevada State Senate to the Nevada Assembly. The legislation has the potential to completely alter the landscape of nursing in the state.

The more than 225,000 union registered nurses of National Nurses United denounce and vow to fight the more than $715 billion cuts and changes to Medicaid approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives today.

National Nurses United and Defend Public Health are joining together to condemn the nomination of Casey Means for U.S. surgeon general, saying her unscientific, anti-vaccine rhetoric poses a serious threat to public health.

Registered nurses at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center will hold a rally on Wednesday, May 21, to demand the administration abandon plans to cut some 80,000 workers from the VA, to reinstate VA workers’ full union rights, and to stop attacks on nurse benefits.

Registered nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., and Alhambra Hospital Medical Center in Alhambra, Calif., will strike on Thursday, May 22 to protest issues impacting patient care and safe staffing.

Mount Desert Island Hospital (MDIH) registered nurses are refusing to back down from their efforts to save Bar Harbor’s obstetrics unit, despite intimidation tactics by the hospital’s CEO and attorneys.

In a congressional briefing on Tuesday, May 20, registered nurses who work at Veterans Health Administration (VA) facilities across the country will share their stories about the state of veterans health care as a result of harmful actions by the current administration.

The more than 225,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United applaud the introduction of federal legislation to mandate minimum registered nurse-to-patient ratios in every hospital across the country. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky and new Senate sponsors, Sen. Alex Padilla and Sen. Jeff Merkley.