National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the country, is celebrating the passage of Nevada Senate Bill 182 (SB 182).
The new legislation will set maximum nurse-to-patient ratios in Nevada hospitals, improving patient care and safety and likely bringing nurses back to the bedside.
Oklahoma’s new law, effective in November 2025, allows certain nurse practitioners to prescribe medications without physician supervision, a move aimed at expanding healthcare access, especially in rural communities.
But what exactly does it take for a nurse practitioner to qualify for this new level of independence? Here is a breakdown.
On the heels of other successful union pushes in area hospitals, nurses and advanced practitioners at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital announced May 29 that they had overwhelmingly opted to hold a union election with a 'substantial majority' of over 1,000 votes. The nurses add to the tally of successful organizing bids — as well as strike votes — at hospitals including Western Psychiatric Hospital by nurses affiliated with SEIU.
Massachusetts health authorities completed their reports this week and found no evidence of a link between Newton-Wellesley Hospital and staffers who developed benign brain tumors. One report was conducted by the Massachusetts General Brigham Occupational Health Services and the other was by the state Department of Public Health. Both entities determined the hospital environment is safe and there's nothing to suggest a common cause to the tumors.
Nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital will be calling for a union election this afternoon. The union for nurses and healthcare workers in the state says the substantial majority of the more than 1,000 nurses at Magee say they support forming a union in what's being called the largest organizing effort by nurses in recent history in Pennsylvania. Those forming the union would include RNs and APPs including midwives, NPs, and others, who say the insurance executives' priorities are getting in the way of the needs of medical providers.
The University of Iowa’s Iowa Nurse Innovators Program connects nurses to the resources and expertise they need to turn workarounds into specially crafted, even marketable, solutions.
With early successes from UIHC nurses currently getting off the ground, the program is working to reach health care professionals across the state.