Nurses are the backbone of the healthcare system. They provide care to patients, day in and day out, often putting their own safety at risk. Nurses are also more likely to be the victims of abuse than any other profession. Studies have shown that nurses are two times more likely…

I remember starting Nurses Against Violence Unite, Inc. I swore this was my mission in life, it still is but I will share with you how and why this mission is so important. We have a crisis that many are and not aware of and is creeping up on nursing…

As the population is starting to head back into their offices, even in healthcare settings, there is something that cannot be ignored. Workplace violence and the enormous break for individuals to work from home with minimal in-person interaction have been a blessing, or has it? The next few months to…

This is a common theme in our society. Let’s step back and look at everything that has happened with healthcare, broken prior to November 2019, ushering in the viral storm that many have not recovered. We are now left with a tattered and torn healthcare system, nursing shortage growing while…

I barely ever watch the news or partake in the brutality of politics, ever. It is with great sadness that we have a system that is so deeply divided at the foundational level that it favors one race over another, throws its elderly away, withholding medical supplies from healthcare workers…

Nurses Against Violence Unite, Inc. We have been labeled "Frontline Heros" and fighting our WW3 without protection or appropriate healing weapons. The rise… Lateral and patient/family on nurse abuse has gotten so out of control that in the news we are reading more and more nurses are committing suicide. We need to really help ourselves as nurses, through education and helping one another or the violence is only going to get worse. Some…

A Rude Awakening: The Nursing Struggle What is nursing? Nursing is a state of mind, passion, a life some of us chose and for some, it chose us. Our battle started with prerequisites and the struggle to get into nursing school. Then when we found out when starting our nursing school journey that we were already…

As Nurses Grieve, The Nation Watches Being a healthcare worker is my superpower, something that I am good at and advocate tirelessly for my nursing profession, and for those that help us with our jobs. With the overpowering emotions that I was feeling of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance…

We need to 1st talk about how much violence is occurring on the floor, whether it be working in a skilled nursing facility, an assisted living facility, or a hospital setting. The American Nurses Association stated in 2018 that out of 14,000 nurses that answered an anonymous surveying system, 62%…