PPE and other Covid-19 protections
Learn more about proper PPE and other Covid-19 workplace protections.
What Your Employers Should Provide: Protections at Work for Covid-19
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Chinese Hospital, San Francisco RNs to Strike May 25, Warn Substandard Conditions Driving Away RNs
Registered nurses at Chinese Hospital in San Francisco will hold a one-day strike Tuesday, May 25 to protest substandard workplace and economic conditions that nurses say has driven experienced nurses away and undermines the hospital's ability to recruit new RNs.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
May 24, 2021
Registered nurses and social workers with CountyCare demand Cook County Health stop putting them at unnecessary risk of exposure to Covid-19
CountyCare registered nurses and social workers say they are being put at unnecessary risk of exposure to Covid-19 by Cook County Health, which refuses to allow those exposed to Covid-19 to isolate and work remotely.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
May 18, 2021
National Nurses United holding Wednesday, May 19 press conference
National Nurses United is holding a press conference on Wednesday, May 19 to discuss the faulty science underlying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s dangerous new guidance that says vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks except for in health care and public transportation settings, distance from others outside their household, or get tested and self isolate when they’ve been exposed to Covid-19 if they show no symptoms.
National Nurses United
May 18, 2021
RNs encouraged by California’s decision to continue mandatory masking
California Nurses Association is encouraged that California health officials have announced their intention to continue observing current Covid-19 guidance, including mandatory masking, until June 15.
California Nurses Association
May 17, 2021
National Nurses United urges the CDC to revise its dangerous guidance saying vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks, get tested, or isolate after an exposure
National Nurses United strongly condemns this dangerous guidance that puts nurses, other essential workers, children, and medically vulnerable people at risk and demands that the CDC revise it to continue requiring these multiple infection control measures in our fight to control Covid-19.
Nation’s largest RN union condemns CDC rollback on Covid protection guidance
National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the United States, today condemned new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance stating that fully vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks, avoid crowds or large gatherings, and no longer needed to isolate after exposure or get tested unless they develop symptoms.
National Nurses United
May 14, 2021
RNs Applaud Introduction of Federal Legislation to Mandate Number of Patients Assigned to Nurses
National Nurses United today applauds the introduction of the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, a federal bill that would set specific safety limits on the numbers of patients each RN can care for in hospitals throughout the United States.
National Nurses United
May 12, 2021
Chico nurses to hold informational picket for patient safety
Registered nurses at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, Calif., will hold an informational picket on May 14 as management refuses to address issues of safe staffing, infection control protocols for safe patient care during the pandemic, or hospital preparedness for natural disasters.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
May 12, 2021