RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United (NNU), has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. This is the 10th year in a row DeMoro was honored by the health care industry news weekly Modern Healthcare.

Another major study shows that California’s landmark nurse to-patient staffing ratio law improves the quality of patient care and enhances registered nurse staffing.

The latest study, by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University, also refutes predictions promoted by healthcare industry opponents of the California law that hospitals might respond by disproportionately hiring lower-skill licensed vocational nurses.

After a two-year effort to win union representation to improve patient care, 357 registered nurses at Steward Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, Mass., voted last night  by a more than two-to-one margin to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United (MNA/NNU).

When the Statue of Liberty got “sick” over what’s happening to her country, the nation’s nurses rushed to New York City to try and help her get well.

Members of National Nurses United (NNU)  and other working men and women will march and rally on Wall Street today to demand that the high rollers in the finance capital of the world pay to rebuild the economy they destroyed.

Riding in an ambulance in the nation’s capital may be hazardous to your health–and fire responders and nurses are demanding a change.  Unions representing the District of Columbia’s emergency medical technicians, paramedics, fire fighters and registered nurses today urged Mayor Vincent Gray to ensure that the city’s ambulances are in working order and have operational air conditioners.

Carrying signs saying “Heal America! Tax Wall Street!” more than 1,000 nurses, union members and community allies today called on President Obama, the Chamber of Commerce and Congress set a new course to heal the nation.

More than 1,000 nurses will be joined by union and community allies in a rally outside the White House, Chamber of Commerce and Congress tomorrow to call for a new agenda to heal the nation.

The 1,300 registered nurse at the University of Chicago Medical Center who last year voted to join National Nurses United (NNU), this week overwhelmingly ratified their first contract with the University.

More than five years ago the 500 registered nurses at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., began a drive to improve patient care and win fair treatment from hospital management by gaining a voice with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU).