Press releases

Brooklyn VA Medical Center RNs to Hold Action at Shift Change to Demand Critical PPE and Appropriate Staffing to Care for Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health care workers and the dangerously inadequate staffing levels at VA hospitals during this COVID-19

National Nurses Organizing Committee

April 6, 2020

• Veterans Affairs

Nurses: Reuse, Decontamination of Masks Endangers Health Care Workers

National Nurses United today rebuked new federal guidance encouraging hospitals and other health systems to allow multiple reuse and/or decontamination of N95 respiratory masks that nurses say will put thousands of health care workers at grave risk.

National Nurses United

April 6, 2020

UCSD Jacobs Medical Center Nurses in La Jolla to Hold Action at Noon to Demand Protections when Treating Patients with COVID-19

SAN DIEGO, CA – To honor healthcare workers and patients who have succumbed to COVID-19, and to call on UCSD to provide adequate protection for healthcare workers du

California Nurses Association

April 5, 2020

Seton Medical Center Nurses to Hold Action To Demand Protections when Treating Patients with COVID-19

Daly City, CA – To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers during this COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at Seton Medi

California Nurses Association

April 2, 2020

Nurses to President Trump: Get Us Protective Equipment Now

National Nurses United sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump today to demand that he immediately and fully invoke the presidential authorities granted in the Defense Production Act to increase the supply of necessary personal protective equipment.

National Nurses United

April 2, 2020

University of California, Irvine Medical Center Nurses to Hold Action at Shift Change to Demand Protections when Treating Patients with COVID-19

Orange, CA – To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health care workers during this COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at UCI Medical

California Nurses Association

April 2, 2020

French Hospital Nurses to Hold Candlelight Vigil at Shift Change to Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19

To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health care workers during this COVID-19 pandemic, Dignity Health-French Hospital registered nurses are

California Nurses Association

April 2, 2020

RNs at 15 HCA Hospitals to Protest Lack of COVID-19 Preparedness

Registered nurses at 15 HCA Healthcare hospitals in seven states will hold actions Wednesday and Thursday, April 1 and April 2, to protest a lack of preparedness by th

National Nurses United

April 1, 2020

Watsonville Community Hospital Nurses to Hold Action at Shift Change Actions To Demand Protections When Treating Patients With COVID-19

To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and preparedness for frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital will

California Nurses Association

March 30, 2020

Community First Medical Center nurses to hold action to demand protections when treating patients with COVID-19

To protest the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline health care workers during this COVID-19 pandemic, registered nurses at Community First Medical Center are holding an action

National Nurses Organizing Committee

March 30, 2020