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Video: Sutter RN Talks About the Strike to Protect Nurses' Rights

Sutter profits are at an all time high ($3 billion in profits the last five years and $8.3 billion in net assets) and now they are proposing cuts. The nurses remain concerned about inadequate staffing and other patient care concerns.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

Executive Director, RoseAnn DeMoro Speaks on Sanders' call to Organized Labor

"We are truly in an amazing and transformative time. It’s not a fantasy, it will last for years to come if we are sincerely committed to the change that this campaign, our campaign, with Bernie represents."

National Nurses United

California Nurses Association Stephanie Roberson talks about the legislative process

California Nurses Association Legislative Advocate Stephanie Roberson joins us to talk about the "making of a law" and the critical importance of legislation such as the landmark nurse to patient ratios bill passed in California in 1999.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

With nurses on the outside, Allina CEO focuses her attention on the real issues: Health Catalyst

It’s been well reported that Allina Health, a $3.9-billion nonprofit healthcare organization, “invested” $108 million in Health Catalyst, a private for-profit technology company. As part of the deal, Allina is outsourcing its “data warehousing, analytics, performance improvement technology, and personnel to Health Catalyst.”

Mathew Keller, RN JD Regulatory and Policy Nursing Specialist

Why America’s Nurses Oppose the Muslim Ban

National Nurses United joins with humanitarian and civil rights and civil liberties groups in opposing the executive order to ban refugees, especially Muslim refugees, from entering the U.S.

National Nurses United

Jane Sandoval: The Health Inequities That Exist

RN, Jane Sandoval's resolve to fight inequality extends well beyond the Bay Area. In 2013, she traveled to the Philippines with the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN). While treating patients in the devastating aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, Jane's eyes were opened to the vast scale of global health inequities.

National Nurses United

Support for California's Healthy California Act (S.B. 562) will not stop!

Earth to Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon! Nurses never give up and neither will millions of Californians who support Single Payer Healthcare.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

As Largest US Nurses Union Goes Through Leadership ‘Shift Change,’ Our Fight is Unwavering

What will happen now that I’ve taken over as the next Executive Director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United?

Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director of NNU/CNA

Nurses’ Response to Trump’s Op-Ed on Medicare for All

Nurses have long campaigned for ending disgraces like this with an improved and expanded Medicare for all. We see the patients forced to make painful choices between the critical care they need or paying their housing or heating bills, even parents who’ve become homeless to pay for care for a sick child...

Deborah Burger, RN, Zenei Cortez, RN, and Jean Ross, RN

Accept No Substitutes

As the House Ways and Means Committee prepares to hold an influential hearing Wednesday on HR 1384, the Medicare for All bill authored by Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell, with 112 House cosponsors, news reports remind us every day of why the bill is so necessary.

Bonnie Castillo, RN, Executive Director of National Nurses United