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Nurses Step Up to Bat on Educating Patients About Climate Change
Nursing > Nursing — The American Nurses Association pledges to mitigate and help others adapt to climate change by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today September 22, 2023 The American Nurses Association (ANA) said that nurses, as trusted messengers in healthcare, have a responsibility to mitigate and help others adapt to the impacts of climate
These Nurses Made $1.5 Million by Selling Fake Vaccine Cards
Two Long Island, N.Y., women have been charged with forging COVID-19 vaccination cards in a scheme that racked up $1.5 million in profits—$900,000 of which was seized by law enforcement officers during a home search. Nurses Julie DeVuono, 49, and Marissa Urraro, 44, of Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare, were arrested last Thursday and charged with…
Most Nurses of Color Report Workplace Racism
In 2013, an act of racism that seemed torn from the pages of a medical ethics textbook led to a lawsuit in Michigan: a white supremacist with a newborn in the hospital asked that no Black nurses be allowed to touch his son, and the hospital allegedly honored that request. While the lawsuit between the…
Nurses Struggle through a New COVID Wave with Rage and Compassion
To health care workers in the COVID era, holidays mean death, and we knew Omicron was coming before it had a name. The wave caused by this variant has barely begun, rapidly gathering steam, and we are exhausted, attempting to pull from reserves badly drained by earlier surges. Back in August, the beds of my…
Big Nurses Group Opposes CDC’s New Covid Isolation Guidelines
Ergee Almalvez, left, licensed vocational nurse, Hoag Memorial Hospital Fly Well Clinic, administers ... [+] a COVID-19 Rapid PCR test to Terri Black, of Aliso Viejo, for her and her husbands upcoming trip to London, England, at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, CA on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. Travelers arrived and departed for Christmas…
Nurses Lead Petition for Permanent OSHA COVID Standards
Jane Thomason The pandemic's recent surge in winter hospitalizations and the Omicron variant are the latest risks healthcare workers and the general workforce fear facing without permanent COVID safety standards to protect them. Those concerns are at the focus of a national petition led by nurses asking for the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…
Nurses and health care workers across the country are finding strength in numbers and with labor actions not seen in years. In California, which has a strong union tradition, Kaiser Permanente management misjudged workplace tensions during the covid-19 crisis and risked a walkout of thousands when union nurses balked at signing a four-year contract that…
Nurses’ Union ‘Dismayed’ Over Halted Medicare Drug Price Cuts
Based on early results in Congress, legislation to lower drug prices envisioned by President Joe Biden as part of his $3.5 trillion Build Back Better social-spending plan may not be an easy sell. As part of Biden's agenda unveiled last month, the plan would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices with manufacturers to reduce prescription…