More Nurses Equals Better Care, PASNAP President Patricia Eakin, RN, 6/22/09, Philadelphia Daily News

Penn Conducts Largest National Study on Hospital Patient Satisfaction as it Relates to Nurse Work Environments, 6/13/09, The Medical News

Single-payer Topic Dominates Health-Care Listening Sessions, 5/27/09, Billings Gazette

Fighting Cancer, Fighting the System, 5/17/09, Los Angeles Times

Adolph Introduced Nurse-Patient Ratio Bill, 3/26/09, Delaware County Daily Times

Nurses to Rally in Support of Bill, 3/19/09, Delaware County Daily Times

Legislation Targets Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, 3/16/09, Delaware County Daily Times

Nurse's Insurance Nightmare Makes Her A Single-Payer Advocate, 3/7/09, Philadelphia Inquirer, featuring a PASNAP nurse!

Fair Acres Nurses Join PASNAP

230 Nurses Win Union with PASNAP at Fair Acres Geriatric Center, 6/3/09, PASNAP Press Release

Mandatory Overtime Ban Becomes Law in July 2009 in Pennsylvania.

It took years of PASNAP-led rallies, letters to newspaper editors, petitions, visits and phone calls to government officials, and trips to Harrisburg to win this ban on mandatory overtime. For more information about this important protection for patients and caregivers, click here.

National Nursing Shortage Reform and Patient Advocacy Act S 1031 (BOXER) establishes requirements for acute-care facilities to provide registered nurse staff based on the acuity of patients provided that minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for each unit are met at all times. 

Staffing Cuts Make Nurses Leave
Letter to Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer, by Patricia Eakin, RN, President of PASNAP June 6, 2009

Nursing Unions Urge Congress to Pass Nurse-Patient Ratio Legislation
Bureau of National Affairs May 14, 2009

State Senate Introduces Bill to Protect Pennsylvania's Patients and Nurses, 2/26/09, PASNAP Press Release

Study Shows Hospitals with Unionized RNs Offer Better Care, Megan McCloskey, Las Vegas Sun, 10/10/08

Nursing Ratios Save Lives and Money, Suzanne Gordon, Boston Globe, 7/9/08