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Nurses campaign at White House again for emergency anti-virus standard May 13, 2021 10:34 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
During Nurses Week 2020, nurses placed 88 pairs of shoes in front of the White House to honor the RNs lost to COVID-19. A year later, that number has surged past 400. | via NNU
WASHINGTON (PAI) Jean Ross, RN, stood two blocks from the White House, reading names of nurses the coronavirus has killed. Behind her: Local RN colleagues amid 403 pairs of empty white nurses’ shoes. The nurses took turns reading the roll of the dead, one by one.
“It’s heartbreaking that all of these deaths could have been prevented. We are one and a half years into this pandemic and we still have nurses dying,” said Zenei Cortez with the California Nurses Association.
As nurses were sitting socially distanced in their cars, listening to the names of their colleagues who passed away from the virus.
Similar demonstrations were taking place all over the country. In Washington D.C., hundreds of shoes were placed near the white house.
The nurses’ union are demanding that the Biden administration implement safety measures for hospital workers on the front lines.
“We need tools and we continue to fight for them and nurses continue to die,” said Jean Ross, the president of the National Nurses Union.
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Interested RNs can sign up to volunteer for the vaccine team
RNRN a disaster-relief project of the California Nurses Foundation and National Nurses United has deployed nine teams of volunteers to assist with the administration of Covid-19 vaccines in the historically underserved South Los Angeles community.
A tenth team of RNRN nurses began volunteering this week.
By next week, nurse volunteers from the RNRN, International Medical Corps, community volunteers, and Kedren staff will have helped with the administration of more than 100,000 Covid vaccine doses.
“We nurses are on the front lines and we see the devastation of what Covid has done to communities,” said Sandy Reding, RN at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital and a president of California Nurses Association. “I volunteered for the vaccine clinic because I feel that it is my duty to reach underserved areas that have been disproportionately affected by Covid. We must stop the spread.”
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The nurses union also will request the White House to finish reviewing and adopt an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard designed to protect nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Nurses United called on the White House to put the standard into effect by May 12, which is the final day of National Nurses Week and International Nurses Day.
National Nurses Week officially began on Thursday and continues next week.
Other legislation the registered nurses are pushing for include a bill that would create an OSHA standard for workplace violence protection for health care and social workers and another that develops required nurse-to-patient ratios to prevent understaffing.