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Registered nurses at Maine’s largest hospital and employer, Maine Medical Center have their union. By a huge 57 percent margin, registered nurses at Maine’s largest hospital, Maine Medical Center (MMC) are joining the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
RNs call on Biden administration and Congress to take action to end the pandemic, address structural racism, and prevent future pandemics. Nurses will hold a picket to protest a new punitive attendance policy that will jeopardize the safety of their patients, coworkers, and community.
Kaiser nurses will hold a 24-hour sympathy strike in solidarity with IUOE Stationary Engineers, Local 39 from 7 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 19 to 7 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 20. RNs call on Biden administration and Congress to take action to end the pandemic, address structural racism, and prevent future pandemics.
Maine Medical Center registered nurses urged their employer to maintain the Covid-19 protections it put in place last year.
Nurses are patient advocates — and by extension advocates for our patients' families and our communities - and today we are sounding an alert on theTrans-Pacific Partnership, an international agreement that puts the public health of Maine, and the nation, at risk.
What will happen now that I’ve taken over as the next Executive Director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United?
National Nurse magazine not only covers the activities of National Nurses United but also strives to produce hard-hitting news features and thoughtful analyses about nursing and the real ills plaguing the U.S. healthcare system.
RNs across the United States are actively working with CNA/NNU to win their own mandated direct-care RN-to-patient staffing ratios. RNs in other countries have also been fighting to win RN-to-patient staffing ratios to improve conditions for their patients.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friends of Maine Med Nurses is a community of Mainers who support our nurses as they work on the front lines of this pandemic. We support their right to organize a union so they can more effectively advocate for a safer workplace for themselves and for us - their patients.
Elected officials and community leaders stand in strong support of the nurses efforts to unionize at Maine Medical Center.
To Jackie Fournier and other nurses at Maine Medical Center, there are many reasons why forming a union would be beneficial. But chief among them is the ability to better care for those they serve.
As a science-based profession nurses know better. And, as a holistic-based profession, nurses understand the need for individualized patient care.
Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act. There are no federal mandates regulating the number of patients a registered nurse can care for at one time in U.S. hospitals.