Nurses Call on Maine Legislature to Protect Healthcare for Rural Maine Patients

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MSNA nurses holding signs for safe staffing

Members of the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United (MSNA/NNU) will hold a press conference Thursday, October 19, to speak out in strong support of a bill to protect healthcare for patients in rural Maine. They call on legislators to take up this critical bill, “An Act to Protect Rural Maine Healthcare,” in the Maine legislature’s upcoming emergency session.
 

Maine State Nurses Association/NNOC
Oct 18, 2017

'The People of Puerto Rico Are Dying': Action Is Needed Now

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Crowd funding. A Costco Card. The water in a nurse’s own backpack. These are the resources available to volunteer nurses on the ground in Puerto Rico — where 85 percent of the island is still without power and where the official death toll has risen to 48.
Bonnie Castillo, Director of RN Response Network

She flew to Puerto Rico to aid relief efforts. Then she found out her home was in the path of a wildfire

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Cyndi Evans was moved by images she saw on TV of people suffering in Puerto Rico and the mayor of San Juan asking for help.

An intensive care unit nurse at the Kaiser Permanente San Rafael hospital, Evans flew to the island Oct. 6 with a group of doctors and nurses. There, she was greeted by devastation. People who’d gone days without water. Downed power lines. Black mold spreading. Infections caused by a lack of sewage system.

A friend offered her their internet connection one day, and 64 text messages popped up on her phone.

Soumya Karlamangla, The Los Angeles Times

West Anaheim Medical nurses vote to unionize

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Nurses at West Anaheim Medical Center voted to join the California Nurses Association by 147-33 in a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations board Thursday, Oct. 12.

The lopsided approval testified to widespread discontent over pay and benefits that have led to an exodus of experienced nurses from the Anaheim facility to other hospitals, and a surge in temporary help, according to nurses who favored the union.

Margot Roosevelt, The Orange County Register

Thank you

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Thank you for your willingness to volunteer your expertise and time to care for disaster victims.

If there is a volunteer opportunity, we will contact you with more details.

 

RN Response Network.

Protect Social Security

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Keep Up the Pressure

As Congress and the White House get closer to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling that could include devastating cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, our lawmakers need to continue to hear your voice.