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Contents
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News Briefs
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101 Reasons for RN Unity
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Sutter RNs stage sixth strike 5 | Massachusetts ban
against forced overtime takes effect 6 | Minnesota
RNs oppose uniform policy; 2012 election
postmortem 7 | Public-sector San Bernardino
RNs settle contract; Santa Monica RNs win first
contract; Florida RNs hold statewide meeting and
agree to campaign for ratios; Minnesota nurses
hold Halloween zombie protest; Washington, D.C.
RNs oppose for-profit takeover of dialysis unit
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There are many reasons for RN unity. Here���s 101 of
them. By RoseAnn DeMoro
Safety in Numbers
In our special focus this issue on RN-to-patient
ratios, learn everything you need to know about this
critical safe staffing standard. We cover the origins
of ratios, to the political fight to defend it, to the
current struggle to expand ratios regulations to
other states and even around the world.
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Collective Patient
Advocacy Trailblazers,
Part 2: The Road to Ratios
In part two of this two-part CE home study, learn
about California���s first-in-the-nation RN-to-patient
staffing ratio law and efforts to pass this landmark
patient safety measure at the national level.
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