On May 11, during Nurses Week, the Covid public health emergency declaration expired. With this emergency era concluding — at least on paper, although it’s clear Covid is still a major threat — have hospital executives learned lessons that will help them better protect patients in a future emergency? …

In an era of feminist empowerment, of course a day like International Women’s Day is important. But to truly honor this day and its goals, we must revisit the story of International Working Women’s Day, of thousands of fed-up workers boiling over into the streets of New York. …

The movement to win guaranteed health care for all people in California is more powerful–and more necessary–than ever before As positive Covid cases surge across California (and around the country), health care facilities are literally overflowing. Meanwhile our profit-driven employers have successfully lobbied the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)…

Time passes strangely during a pandemic. A shift can flash by in what feels like an hour, and a single day as a registered nurse can also feel like it contains enough physical, mental, and emotional weight to last an entire lifetime. Now, we’re approaching the end of 2021 and…

In the anti-union South, RNs show winning and building a strong union is possible Union nurses go to great lengths to bargain a strong contract because it governs the conditions in which our patients receive care. Will there be safe limits on how many patients are assigned to each nurse…

Every weekend, Celia Yap-Banago’s sons and husband take a short drive from their home to the nearby cemetery with flowers and Yap-Banago’s favorite snack: chips and a coke. …

As Black History Month comes to a close, nurses are fighting forward for Black health For the past few months, nurses at the VA in Tuscaloosa, Alabama have been driving their cars around their hospital and around downtown, honking their horns and displaying signs with slogans such as “Racial discrimination…

Rose Foronda has done her share of caretaking. A mother of three whose husband has Alzheimer’s, Foronda has been a registered nurse in the ICU at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, Calif. for more than 30 years — one of the core group of Seton nurses to work there…

Here we are, on the edge of a new year. As we look back at 2020, nurses, you should know that your story, what you have been through this year, matters. It might be the story of your employer telling you it’s safe to keep an N95 respirator mask in…