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News Briefs
Nurses, activists lobby for D.C. ratios 5 | Michigan
RNs push real Medicaid expansion 6 | Minnesota
bargaining roundup 7 | RN organizing puts
pediatric closure on hold 8 | St. Louis University
RNs win first contract 9 | RNs fight Kaiser
restructuring 10 | St. Joseph RNs settle contract;
CNA president emeritus wins consumer award;
UMass RNs win new contract; Ohio RNs warn
against new electronic medical records system;
VA RNs win grievance for uniform allowances.
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No Longer a Dream
NNU, with international nurses, forms global
nursing group. By RoseAnn DeMoro
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It's a Small World
A report from the 2013 NNU Staff Nurse Assembly,
in which RN attendees learned about how nurses
around the world are working to protect their
patients, their environment, and their union rights.
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Bad Medicine
The Affordable Care Act is a disaster. Not only does
it fail to rein in healthcare corporations and insurers,
it shifts more costs onto workers and threatens
nursing practice in the process.
By Charles Idelson
20 Narrative Documentation,
Part 2: Protecting your
patients, practice, and license
in the information age
Besides giving direct care to your patients,
documentation is probably the next-most important
thing you do as a registered nurse. In this home
study, learn the principles of accurate and
responsible recordkeeping, particularly as more of
the medical record goes electronic. Submitted by the
Joint Nursing Practice Commission, DeAnn McEwen, RN,
and Hedy Dumpel, RN, JD
ON THE COVER: Members of the NNU Council of
Presidents and other RN leaders spearhead a march
across the Golden Gate Bridge to oppose the health
and environmental damage construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would wreak. Photo by Jaclyn Higgs.
JUNE 2013
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