Some Cuts Don’t Heal: Protecting the Right to Care

This course will examine how nurses can continue to fight for our patients and profession in the wake of recent federal funding cuts to Medicaid and other vital health care and public health programs. We will analyze how these dramatic cuts could accelerate the hospital closure epidemic, significantly increase health care costs, and create further barriers to care. We will investigate how hospitals may respond to these potential changes and how that response could affect patient care. This course will conclude by exploring how nurses can use the tools of public policy and collective action to protect our patients and heal our broken health care system. This will be a 3-hour online class via Zoom for 3 hours of continuing education credits. CE courses are free to National Nurses United members. If you’re interested in organizing a union at your facility, we can help.