Dr. Toni Lewis of SEIU International Says Partnering with Healthcare Workers...
Learning from this and other experience with the more recent SARS and H1N1 influenza outbreaks, we can and should seize this heightened awareness about Ebola to raise quality standards at our hospitals
View ArticleNurse Alliance Partners with PQC to Stand Up for Patients and Nurses
On November 7, 2014, SEIU Local 721, and UHW West co-hosted the largest Ebola Preparedness Training in California yet, along with other stakeholders: the Partnership for Quality Care (PQC)
View ArticleUpdates to OSHA’s Recordkeeping Rule
From Federal OSHA: “OSHA will now receive crucial reports of fatalities and severe work-related injuries and illnesses that will significantly enhance the agency’s ability to target our resources to...
View Article2016 Legislative Conference in Sacramento: RNs Leading the Way to Healthier...
Coming May 3rd & 4th, 2016 we're continuing the annual tradition of timely, relevant, and lively discussion about issues behind the health care disparities we see day to day...
View ArticleSEIU, Flint Michigan, and YOU: Nurses in action to protect ourselves and our...
It’s not an “over there” or “effecting them” issue; in fact, many communities are suffering at the hands of negligent leadership with respect to their drinking water...
View ArticleNurse Training Update – Infectious Disease
...a call for vigilance when reviewing charts, handling patients upon intake, especially those who have traveled outside the US to known at-risk regions of the world.
View ArticlePrevention, Self-Protection and Patient Education for Zika Virus
Whether it's Zika or any other pathogen, conventional wisdom and common sense guidelines can provide a means of prevention, containment and eradication.
View ArticleStaff bill introduced in Sacramento!
BREAKING NEWS: Our safe staffing bill is introduced in Sacramento!
View ArticleUpdates to OSHA’s Recordkeeping Rule
From Federal OSHA: “OSHA will now receive crucial reports of fatalities and severe work-related injuries and illnesses that will significantly enhance the agency’s ability to target our resources to...
View Article2019, A Year in Review
It’s always amazing just how much SEIU California nurses accomplish every year. You are union nurses, so doing amazing work is a daily occurrence. You spend every working day saving and improving...
View ArticleViolence is NOT in Our Job Description! Class on March 24, 2020
Using the Cal/OSHA Workplace Violence Prevention Standard in Healthcare Workshop offering 6 Continuing Education Units being held on Tuesday March 24, 2020 SEIU Local 1000 office at 436 14th St. Ste....
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View ArticleSEIU Registered Nurse, Sasha Cuttler Explains Similarities Between Fighting...
This is a three minute piece that was produced about a week ago for December 1st World AIDS Day. Mary Magee, SEIU 1021 retiree sent the journalist to me. By very sad coincidence, on World AIDS Day,...
View ArticleCourse Information for Safe Patient Handling Training
This is a 2 hour course that will provide 2 CEUs The course is designed so that it can be viewed all at once or broken up into segments or what we call chapters. The On-demand Education Library...
View Article“One Day in the Parallel Universe of a London I.C.U.” NY Times Feb 2nd, 2022
Re: “One Day in the Parallel Universe of a London I.C.U.” NY Times Feb 2nd, 2022 Nurses in the U.S. and the U.K. are experiencing a “parallel universe” both inside overcrowded and understaffed...
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