Nurses across the US just endorsed Bernie Sanders -- here's why

[Uncle Joe]

Why are nurses political? For National Nurses United (NNU), the largest U.S. union of registered nurses, the answer to that question involves tracing each patient’s story backward, from the hospital out into the world.

Our asthma patients come to us from refinery towns, our diabetic patients from jobs that don’t cover the cost of insulin.

Disaster relief volunteers with NNU’s Registered Nurse Response Network help patients still in shock from the climate-fueled wildfires and hurricanes they just survived. This summer, our El Paso nurses cared for patients who had just hours earlier been hiding in the aisles of Walmart.

In short, the illnesses and injuries that culminate at the bedside begin in our patients’ homes and communities. They begin with the policies that govern their lives and our planet, and they are often preventable. So our job, as patient advocates, is to fight beyond the walls of the hospital, in the streets, in our legislators’ office, on the campaign trail— and everywhere our voice makes a difference.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/471743-nurses-across-the-us-just-endorsed-bernie-sanders-heres-why

[Meub]

1. Define "nurses across the US"

Is it not true that that largest Union still represents a very small portion of all nurses in the United States?

[FloridaBlues]

2. I agree it does represent a small percent of nurses. Most of us don't belong to this union.

[Thekaspervote]

3. +1000.. I never belonged to that union either

[George II]

6. See my post below - they're virtually unknown "across the US". They have members only....

....in a handful of states "across the US".

[George II]

11. There are more than 3,000,000 nurses in the United States....

NNU claims to have "close to 185,000 members in every state". That's less than 6% of all nurses. And they're not "in every state".

My wife, a nurse for almost 45 years, never heard of them.

[crazytown]

4. As they did in 2015

https://news.yahoo.com/nurses-union-endorses-sanders-2016-u-presidency-192123644--business.html

[George II]

7. Yes, and then their Super PAC spent millions of dollars on his campaign, without a peep....

....of pushback.

[George II]

5. Wasn't this announced a week or so ago? Is BS going to renounce the millions of dollars...

.....that NNU's Super PAC will be spending on his campaign?

BTW, my wife worked for the largest hospital in the state for about 45 years, she never heard of National Nurses United.

[NurseJackie]

8. That's doubtful. Because...

... only the super pacs not supporting bs are bad. I think that's how it works.

[Uncle Joe]

9. The article in the OP explains WHY the largest registered nurses union in U.S. history

endorsed Bernie

National Nurses United, with close to 185,000 members in every state, is the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in US history.

CNA/NNU
Releases by this organization

https://www.commondreams.org/organization/national-nurses-united

[George II]

10. That first highlighted statement isn't correct.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Do you mean the part about them being the largest union of registered nurses in the nation?

National Nurses United (NNU) is the largest organization of registered nurses in the United States.[2][3] The NNU was founded through the merging of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Nurses_United

[George II]

13. They're not in every state.