This Pride Month, National Nurses United is honored to celebrate the history of organized, collective resistance embodied in the LGBTQIA+ liberation movement. …

May is the time to celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and acknowledge the achievements of the AAPI nurses in our country. Asian Americans make up 8.9 percent of U.S. registered nurses, and Filipinx RNs make up nearly half of that number due to a number of historical and…

The grief of watching eight of her children die before they reached age 7 led Ann Reeves Jarvis to reach out to other women in her poor Appalachian community in the 1850s to organize mothers’ clubs. It was Mrs. Jarvis’ fight to combat…

As we celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, here are some of the books by AAPI authors and about the AAPI experience we’re reading. These selections illustrate that even in the face of discrimination, violence, racism, and xenophobia, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are organizing and building powerful…

To honor International Transgender Day of Visibility, National Nurses United is proud to share this story from nurse-member Dara Tep, RN, and her colleagues. When Dara Tep, RN, first began transitioning her gender, it was the early days of Covid-19, and the solitude and masking helped her feel more…

The stories of these six Black nurses and health care workers teach us to imagine the impossible, to fight for justice, and to collectively build institutions that advance freedom while challenging those that would keep it from us. Sojourner Truth 1797–1883 Early advances in nursing were made in part thanks to the…

Stories of Filipinx nurses featured in California Museum exhibit Ang mabigat ay gumagaan, kung pinagtutulungan. Anything that is heavy can be light if we put our resources together. Filipinx proverb At the core of Filipinx culture lies the Bayanihan spirit, the abiding belief that cooperation and unity are fundamental to…

By Mawata Kamara, RN Labor Day is a chance to reflect on and celebrate workers, the people who get things done and keep our society running. But given this year’s horrific Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, I’ve been thinking a lot about the other most famous kind of…

Nurses who cared for patients during the AIDS epidemic know Covid-19 is not the first disease to expose the extreme injustices of our health care system and society. Without our advocacy in coalition with patients and marginalized communities, the U.S. …