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Mission Hospital RNs to Protest Lack of COVID-19 Preparedness

Registered nurses at HCA’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC will hold a public protest tonight, April 9, at 6 p.m. over what they say remains the hospital’s ongoing lagging response

National Nurses United
April 9, 2020

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Nurses Call for More Data, Action to Address Racial Disparities During COVID-19 Crisis

Following reports of a growing racial disparity in COVID-19 deaths, National Nurses United today called on the federal government and states to provide full reporting on the demographic breakd

National Nurses United
April 8, 2020

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California Nurses Association (CNA) and East Bay Community Hold “Lightning” Rally in Solidarity to Demand Safer Working Conditions and for Alameda County Board of Supervisors to Takeover Alameda Health System

Alameda, CA – Alameda Health System (AHS) CNA nurses along with Bay Area human rights activists, teachers, students, and families will mobilize to uplift health care workers’

California Nurses Association
April 7, 2020

Nurse Rally

U.S. Nurses Unions: 'Our Members Are Dying. We Demand Protections Now!'

As COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket in the United States, unions representing 230,000 nurses across the country have joined forces to demand hospitals and the government act now to gi

National Nurses United
April 6, 2020

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Provident Hospital Nurses to Hold Action at Shift Change to Protest the Closure of Provident Hospital’s Emergency Room

Chicago, IL – To protest the abrupt and dangerous closure of Provident Hospital’s Emergency Room, registered nurses at Provident Hospital are holding an action and media

National Nurses United
April 6, 2020

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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

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Attempting to decontaminate masks

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

nurses holding signs

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

nurses holding signs

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 asking for PPE

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