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WEBOct 2, 2024 · National Nurses United has welcomed its newly seated Council of Presidents to their offices for the 2024-2027 term. The new leaders were seated at NNU’s 15th Anniversary Convention in September, which commemorated the visionary union leadership of nurses and NNU’s foundation in 2009.
WEBStudies on California’s RN-to-patient ratios statute — the only law of its kind in the country — confirm the significant impact minimum stafing ratios have on improved patient safety and outcomes. Compared to California, New Jersey hospitals would have 13.9 percent fewer patient deaths and Pennsylvania 10.6 percent fewer deaths if they ...
WEBNurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act. Care ActSponsored by Senator Sherrod Brown Representative Jan SchakowskyThere are no federal mandates regulating the number. f patients a registered nurse can care for at one time in U.S. hospitals. As a result, registered nurses (RNs) are consistently required to care ...
Organizing with NNU - National Nurses United
WEBOrganizing: Know your rights. You have a legal right to organize under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a federal labor law. In the case of many public hospitals, state law that is similar to the NLRA governs the process. National Nurses United is the largest union of RNs in the United States, with a membership of almost 225,000 RNs in ...
Continuing Education (CE) Class Catalog - National Nurses United
WEBSep 14, 2017 · The Biology of Inequality and A.I. 101. This is a two-part, in-person CE Class from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (6 hours of CE credits). If you’re a UC nurse, an extra hour will be available from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Participants must be in attendance all day to receive the full 6 CEU CE credits, even if they have taken one of the classes prior to the sign ...
Assemblymember Ash Kalra, California Nurses Association …
WEBFeb 7, 2024 · California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation with 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and nearly 225,000 RNs nationwide.. Assemblymember Ash Kalra represents California’s 25th Assembly District, which encompasses the majority of San José, including ...
California Nurses Association | National Nurses United
WEBSep 27, 2024 · California Nurses Association, the largest union of registered nurses in the state, applauds the signing of Senate Bill 1015 by Governor Gavin Newsom. Nurses say the new law, which was authored by Senator Dave Cortese and sponsored by CNA, is an essential step towards ensuring clinical placement …
Safe Staffing Ratios - National Nurses United
WEBNNU’s proposal for minimum, mandated, nurse-to-patient staffing ratios protect our patients’ right to nursing care. We know that every patient deserves a single standard of high-quality care. Safe staffing ratios, coupled with nurses’ powerful voice of advocacy secured in collective bargaining, protect our patients from complications that ...
The Science of ratios - National Nurses United
WEBMay 10, 2021 · The Science of ratios. Decades of studies have shown that more nurses equate to lives saved and fewer complications. After ratios were implemented in California, research demonstrated that ratios were working! Now that that relationship has been well established, researchers have been focusing on what exactly is the mediating link between ...
California nurses and caregivers applaud new meal and rest break …
WEBSep 30, 2022 · S.B. 1334 guarantees enforceable breaks for public-sector hospital workers who provide direct patient care. The California Nurses Association (CNA), a union with more than 100,000 members in the state, applauds Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to sign S.B. 1334 into law, guaranteeing enforceable breaks for public-sector and University of California (UC) workers who provide or support direct ...