Nurses Week (May 6–12) is upon us and we have many events planned all over the state to both celebrate and advocate in our profession. Collectively, we are finding our voice, and looking for ways to drive change that will translate into providing the safe, quality...
On Sunday, in 11 newspapers across Pennsylvania, communities opened their newspapers to find a full-page open letter from bedside nurses and hospital staff to the people of Pennsylvania. This open letter explained the severity and cause of our unsafe staffing crisis,...
Will you sign on to our safe staffing open letter to the people of Pennsylvania? The open letter will be released publicly as full page ads in newspapers across PA once we reach a majority of support for the Patient Safety Act (HB 106) in the House. Imagine the...
The power of nurses and our coworkers standing together and calling for change has brought us to a truly historic step toward safe staffing in Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, Governor Wolf’s administration announced a proposal for long-overdue updates to...
On Monday, we started Nurses Week by laying 1,000 white roses across the steps of the Capitol and shared reflections that nurses and community members sent in from across the state to remember and honor the more than 26,000 Pennsylvanians lost to COVID, and to...
On Wednesday evening, nurses across Pennsylvania officially launched our campaign to win safe staffing in hospitals and nursing homes this year. And it is more necessary than ever: As the most trusted profession on the frontlines of care, we have seen far too many...
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