RNs at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, Calif., ratified a new three-year collective bargaining agreement. Highlights of the contract include improved patient care, staffing, and nurse advocacy provisions.

In a vote conducted by the union between April 20 and April 24, 93 percent of participants, and a majority of all eligible nurses, voted “no confidence” in the leadership of Chief Nursing Officer Rita Fowler and Human Resources Director Chris Greenley.

NNU urged OSHA to issue permanent standard to protect health care workers from Covid and make improvements to the temporary standard.

Registered nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine, held an informational picket at the facility during their morning shift change and will hold another during their evening shift change.

Nurses will hold an informational picket on April 27 to protest chronic short staffing and the administration’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about patient care and safe staffing.

Celebrants to the 2022 Frist Gala at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville will be greeted by nurses with a reminder of the less-than-celebratory record of the Frist family and the health care corporation it cofounded while reaping enormous profits during the Covid-19 pandemic.