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Global Day of Action 2014 - Nurses and Healthcare Workers Proclaim "Healthcare is a Human Right"

Leading nurse and healthcare union organizations in 12 countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe held coordinated actions marking international “Nurses Week” (May 6-12) with a call to step up efforts to promote patient safety, protect health care services, and ensure access to health care for all with a common theme of “Health Care is a Human Right.” See and share photos and videos from around the globe.

Global Nurses United

NNU Delegation to Lima Climate Summit

Leaders from the General Workers Confederation of Peru and members of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy at a forum sponsored by the fighting water workers union.

National Nurses United

Conversations with Kay, Part 2

Recently, we started a regular item featuring the life and nursing career stories of Kay McVay, a longtime intensive care unit RN at Kaiser Permanente and president emeritus of the California Nurses Association.

California Nurses Association

A champion of nurses, patients and the people: NNU Endorses Bernie Sanders for President

The 200-plus nurse members had gathered in NNU’s Oakland, Calif. office for a national conversation with Sanders—also broadcast live to thousands of additional RNs in cities from Des Moines and Chicago, to Kansas City and Orlando. Citing Sanders’ track record on supporting Medicare for all, fighting income inequality, working to end systemic racism, and “the same issues that animate nurses”

National Nurses United

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.”

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