Here’s a reason to celebrate the New Year – safer staffing in California hospitals, once again. As of January 1, California’s historic staffing law for registered nurse staffing ratios, achieved through years of advocacy by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, completes its phase-in period. Over the five year course of their phase-in, these […]

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The largest hospital in Newfoundland and Labrador was critically short of nurses over the holidays, leading to compromised public service, a union leader says.The Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s was in particularly tough shape on the weekend before New Year’s Eve, said Debbie Forward, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses Union.Staff could not […]

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Arizona registered nurse leaders today announced the historic introduction of major legislation to make Arizona hospitals safer for patients and strengthen the ability of RNs to expose unsafe conditions and advocate for patient protections. HB 2041, the Arizona Patient Protection Act, is sponsored by House member Tom Prezelski at the request of the National Nurses Organizing […]

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People are waiting for long hours before being attended to at the emergency services at Mater Dei. The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) said that it had been warning about the problems at the Mater Dei emergency for a long time.The MUMN said that if government does not take care of primary healthcare problems at the emergency […]

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Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, is losing up to US$26 million for every nurse who leaves the country in search of greener pastures, according to a new research paper.“Better salaries and good working conditions are among the contributing factors for these nurses’ migration,” said Fresier Maseko, one of the authors of ‘The financial […]

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