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Patients Deserve Safe Staffing

Citing Turnover Rates, Nurses Urge Research Medical Center in Kansas City to Take Active Measures to Ensure Optimal Patient Care

Registered nurses at the HCA-affiliated hospital, Research Medical Center, will hold an informational picket and rally on Friday, June 22, to urge that hospital management take active measures to reduce the hospital’s RN turnover rate and bring the hospital into consistent compliance with its own staffing grid.

National Nurses United
June 21, 2018

Save CHLB nurse

Nurses Say MemorialCare Reneges On Pledge to Work With New Operator to Save Community Hospital Long Beach from Closing

Registered nurses at Community Hospital Long Beach are saddened to learn that MemorialCare is backpedaling on their prior commitment to ensure a “warm hand off” to a new operator of Community Hospital Long Beach (CHLB) to prevent it from closing its emergency room on June 25th and the entire hospital on July 3rd.

California Nurses Association
June 19, 2018

RNs Protest in El Paso, TX

Nurses Will Join March to ICE Field Office Tomorrow to Demand an End to the Forced Separation of Families and Detention of Immigrant Children

Nurses, members of NNOC-Texas, representing 1700 RNs from four El Paso hospitals, will join numerous other organizations Tuesday, June 19, in a march to the ICE Field Office in El Paso to protest the forced separation of families and detention of immigrant children.

National Nurses United
June 18, 2018

Andrew Gillum

National Nurses United Endorses Andrew Gillum for Governor of Florida

NNU announced today its endorsement of Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum as the next governor of Florida. The nurses cited his work in helping to provide high quality health care to all Floridians in announcing the endorsement.

National Nurses United
June 15, 2018

Nurses Say: Families Belong Together

El Paso RNs Condemn ‘Tent City’ Internment Plan to Separate Immigrant Children From Their Parents

Registered nurses who work in hospitals across El Paso, TX, today condemned the Trump Administration’s proposed plans to isolate immigrant children separated from their parents in tent city internment camps, in what the nurses call especially harsh, unsafe conditions.

National Nurses United
June 14, 2018

Alhambra Hospital Nurses voting to Strike 6-9-2018

Alhambra Nurses Vote by 97 Percent to Authorize Strike

Registered nurses at Alhambra Hospital Medical Center (AHMC) conducted strike votes this week, after over a year of failure of management to come to the table over serious patient care issues—and the result was a resounding 97 percent yes vote

California Nurses Association
June 13, 2018

RNs advocating for guaranteed healthcare for all

New Data: Big Drop in Charity Care Provided by California Non-Profit Hospitals This Decade

Despite increased scrutiny in recent years, culminating in a decision this spring by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to reject appeals by three California hospita

California Nurses Association
June 13, 2018

Nurses are the heart of patent care

Enloe Medical Center Nurses Vote Unanimously to Ratify New Contract

Registered nurses at Enloe Medical Center in Chico have unanimously approved a new three-year contract, which RNs say will improve patient care conditions, ensure the community has acce

California Nurses Association
June 8, 2018

Calais Regional Hospital

Maine Nurses Applaud Calais Regional Hospital’s Decision to End Management Agreement With Quorum Health Resources

Registered nurses applaud Monday’s announcement by Calais Regional Hospital’s (CRH) CEO Rod Boula that Quorum Health Resources will no longer provide management services to CRH, t

Maine State Nurses Association/NNOC
June 5, 2018

Our Union. Our Rights. Our Patients.

On Day of Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling on Public Unions and Workers Rights, “Janus v. AFSCME,” Registered Nurses Will Hold Press Conferences at Medical Facilities Across California

On the day of the upcoming ruling by the Supreme Court affecting public sector unions and workers, in the case of Janus v. AFSCME, the CNA/NNU and public sector registered nurses will hold press conferences at medical facilities across California to discuss the impact of the decision.

California Nurses Association
May 31, 2018