Every three years, National Nurses United delegates from across the country come together at the NNU convention to learn, recharge, strengthen our solidarity, and set the guiding principles for our union. The 2021 convention, held online from October 12–14, was an especially critical time for nurses to gather and collectively…
Heavy toll on Filipinx community but fighting spirit helped others survive
October is Filipinx American History Month and a time to celebrate the contributions, resilience, and fighting spirit of Filipinx nurses in the United States. Registered nurses are the backbone of our health care system and Filipinx RNs have played…
Brandy Welch, a pediatric registered nurse in Southern California, is counting down the days until she expects all hell to break loose.
That’s because Welch, and thousands of other nurses who care for children in our nation’s hospitals, is dreading an unprecedented and huge surge of pediatric patients with Covid-19…
By Mawata Kamara, RN
Vaccines have been around for decades. As a registered nurse, I know how vaccines work. When you are vaccinated, your body can then create antibodies and fight the disease or virus. So my decision to get the Covid-19 vaccine in December was a very easy choice…
By Dahlia Tayag
The ground starts shaking; the building begins to sway. An elevator carrying a patient headed for emergency surgery suddenly freezes between floors. Oxygen to a Covid-19 patient’s ventilator stops working. Lights in intensive care go dark just as a physician is putting in an emergency stent.
Anesthesia…
NNU nurses fight for LGBTQ+ health, in the world and in our own nursing practice
As Pride month comes to a close, we recognize a critical aspect of the work that registered nurses do throughout the year to support LGBTQ+ health: allowing patients to wholly be themselves.
“We can measure…
As nurses dare to imagine a world where care is the guiding principle, where we don’t have to fight the greed of our employers at every turn, and where no one is turned away for lack of ability to pay, we’re called to action by the legacy of the movement…
This month we celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with the tens of thousands of APA registered nurses across the country who care for their patients every day. As fierce patients advocates, APA nurses fight for their patients to ensure they get the care they deserve. They are deeply concerned…
Losing even one registered nurse impacts countless lives. Losing more than 400 of them to Covid-19 — many of them mothers, in our women-dominated profession — changes families and communities across the country forever. …
by Cathy Kennedy, RN
Whenever my husband walks out the door, I cannot really relax. I am on edge until he’s home again. This is the reality for Black people in America. As a Black and Japanese nurse and mother married to a Black man, I am intimately familiar with…
