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National Nurses United (NNU) is calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the recent announced acquisition by Piedmont Healthcare of 11 hospitals that could give it a monopoly power over health care delivery. National Nurses United. July 14, 2021. Pagination.
In light of the latest Supreme Court decision Thursday upholding two discriminatory Arizona voting laws, National Nurses United (NNU) today urged the Senate to repeal the anti-democratic filibuster needed to overcome Republican obstruction to facilitate passage of the For the People Act on voting rights and other critical legislation.
Registered nurses at Community First Medical Center in Chicago have issued a 10-day strike notice to hospital management announcing they will hold a one-day strike on July 26, 2021. National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United. July 14, 2021.
Nurses condemn federal judge’s decision on DACA. National Nurses United (NNU) Friday condemned the ruling by a federal judge in Texas to declare unlawful the highly successful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has enabled young people who came to the United States undocumented as children to remain in this country .
A delegation of 50 volunteer registered nurses from across the United States returned on October 18, 2017 from Puerto Rico after a two-week disaster relief effort in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
National Nurses United’s (NNU) updated report Sins of Omission, reveals continued failures by local, state, and federal governments to track and report data on the Covid-19 deaths and infections of nurses and other health care workers as well as widespread resistance by the hospital and health care industry to provide this critical information. The March report, Sins of Omission: How Government Failures to Track Covid-19 Data Have Led to More Than 3,200 Health Care Worker Deaths and Jeopardize Public Health, is an update to NNU’s September 2020 report of the same name.
During the summer and fall of 2018, nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) surveyed their colleagues about health and safety in their units. This report outlines the results of the survey and draws on the scientific literature to underline the impact and importance of nurses’ health and safety.
To maintain control of the drug markets, and boost the enormous profits for shareholders , the pharmaceutical industry has become dependent on government-protected monopolies to maintain control of drugs and their patents.
With the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to explode across the country, a NNU's new study documents that hospitals jack up charges by as much as 18 times over their costs, a substantial contributor to the growing health care crisis for patients and families.
This report presents findings on Johns Hopkins Hospital’s practices in suing its patients for medical debt. Many of these lawsuits seek to recover only the amount outstanding after insurance coverage is applied, including Medicare and Medicaid.
NOTE: Organizations themselves cannot contribute to candidates and party committees. Figures on this page include contributions and spending by affiliates .
NOTE: Organizations themselves cannot contribute to candidates and party committees. Figures on this page include contributions and spending by affiliates .
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Acting collectively, union nurses can address and fight back against employer and government failures to protect workers during the pandemic that leave them susceptible to physical illness and death, moral distress and injury, and mental health effects such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorders.
This is the work of registered nurses, a profession dominated by women. Because nursing is historically characterized as “women’s work,” nurses pay a “care penalty” resulting in unfair wages and unsafe working conditions .
During the Covid-19 pandemic, nurses are experiencing moral distress and injury on several fronts, including fear of contracting Covid-19 due to lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and infecting their family members or patients, betrayal by employers and government agencies that have gaslighted nurses by ignoring scientific evidence about how the virus is transmitted and failing to provide appropriate PPE. Nurses may also experience moral injury from working under crisis standards of patient care because of an insufficient number of qualified staff and limited resources such as PPE, ICU beds, ventilators, and medications.
Nurses may also experience moral injury from working under crisis standards of patient care because of an insufficient number of qualified staff and limited resources such as PPE, ICU beds , ventilators, and medications. Previous Next.