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NNU's RN & Co-President Deborah Burger talks about NLRB trial against Community Health Systems/CHS

RN and Co-President of National Nurses United Deborah Burger talks about the National Labor Relations Board trial against Tennessee-based Community Health Systems/CHS, the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

Get Ready!—We’re Going to Need Your Help to Save The BRN!

Remember this spring, when we asked for your help in defeating SB 1195 (Sen. Hill) – a bill that threatened the very existence of the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN)?

California Nurses Association

How important is Public Policy and Protective Legislation for Nurses & Patients?

During the last two years alone, nurses represented by California Nurses Association and National Nurses United fought to author and pass state and national legislation that includes Safe RN-to Patient Staffing Ratio’s and California’s Ballot Proposition 61, also known as the Drug Price Relief Act.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

Jeanne Taverne: Pushing for Healthcare in a Broken System

Having worked as an RN for thirty-four years, Jeanne Taverne is well-acquainted with the struggles her patients face. “Unjust social and economic policies contribute to health inequity,” she says. “I have seen clients coming to our clinics that do not have access to health care because of lack of insurance. These clients need an advocate to help them navigate through the health system.”

Sen. Sanders Medicare for All Act - The Time Has Come Today

The dream of healthcare reformers for more than a century—and the incredible and unending work of nurses, especially National Nurses United members, to guarantee health care with comprehensive benefits and a single standard of quality care for everyone—is moving a huge step forward.

By RoseAnn DeMoro writing for Common Dreams

Until Elected Officials Champion Medicare for All, They Can Expect Nurses at Their Offices

Healthy leadership is required to pass healthy legislation, and that makes for a healthy society. If our leaders don't have the political will to fight for healthy legislation—Senator Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Act, S.1804 being a prime example—then we are, as a country, fundamentally unwell.

Bonnie Castillo, NNU Director of Health & Safety

A new year means new opportunities for growth and learning

How is our health affected by the society in which we live? Why are U.S. patients consistently among the sickest in the industrialized world, despite having the highest health expenditure per person? How has the investment of tens of billions of dollars in healthcare technology affected patients and the nursing profession?

National Nurse Magazine

Meet The Next Governor Of Minnesota RN Erin Murphy (Part 2)

Part Two of Nurse Talk Radio's Interview with Erin Murphy.

Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio

Strong 'Medicare for All' legislation is like bargaining a strong union contract

A recent Washington Post article highlighted how National Nurses United and other progressive groups influenced and shaped Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-Wash.) new Medicare for All act into the strongest possible legislation.

NNU Executive Director, Bonnie Castillo, RN, Contributing to The Hill

An alternative vision for the President's budget

President Obama's Republican-lite budget is a reminder of how off track the state of politics has become inside the Beltway, and why we could use some of the protests that rocked Cairo's Tahrir Square in the United States. Rather than accommodating a corporate wish list that prioritizes deficit reduction at a time of a still persistent recession, how about a vastly different approach.

Huffington Post