Friends of Vivian

Vivian Obijekwu has been a registered nurse since October 2016 and has worked at the Johns Hopkins Hospital her entire career. As a bedside RN, Vivian has dedicated her life to helping others, and her competence, dedication and professionalism were well-recognized at Johns Hopkins.


All this changed after Vivian led a delegation of AFrican American nurses to meet with managment to promote safer patient care and fairness and equality in her unit. Since then, managment treated her with escalating hostility. This pattern culminated in her termination arlier last month, just a few weeks after she requested leave under the Family Medical Leave Act to care for her baby due in early May.

With this action, Johns Hopkins is leaving Vivian and her unborn child with no insurance or income.

This is egregious and unconscionable, and just the latest example of Hopkins’ extensive culture
of fear that silences front-line caregivers. Vivian is one of many nurses of color who have been
disciplined or terminated by Johns Hopkins in the past few months. Like Vivian, these nurses
have been punished for organizing their fellow nurses to address short staffing and supply
shortages and trying to make Johns Hopkins a safer place for all patients and employees.
Says Vivian, “I’m disappointed that rather than supporting nurses who are trying to make
Hopkins a safer place for all patients and fair for all employees, Hopkins terminated me in an
attempt to silence me and to provoke fear among fellow nurses who are also trying to create
change.”


Please join in solidarity with Vivian, and the nurses organizing for better patient care at Hopkins, by donating. All proceeds go directly to Vivian.  


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