4 News Briefs
Minnesota nurses' president addresses Biden on
Covid 5 | California RNs fight blanket waivers of
safe staffing standards 6 | National nurse survey
exposes hospitals' knowing failure to prepare for
Covid-19 surges 7 | Huge testing victory for
California RNs 8 | RNs decry closure of Atlanta VA
nursing homes; El Paso nurses win first contract,
others renew 9 | Michigan nurses vote to affiliate
with NNU 10 | NNU report shows hospitals charge
patients up to 18 times cost 11 | Global Nurses
United urges WHO to strengthen Covid-19
guidance 12 | After striking, Alameda Health
System nurses successfully oust bad trustee board;
Maine nurses at Calais Regional win new contract.
13 Looking back, fighting forward
2020 will truly be recorded in history as the Year of
the Nurse.
By Bonnie Castillo, RN
14
Distress Signals
NNU's white paper, "Deadly Shame," details the
devaluation, injustices, and moral distress nurses
suffer, and offers ways to fight back.
By Ty Richardson
18 Not By a Long Shot
As Covid-19 vaccines roll out, will some countries
and people be left behind?
By Kari Jones
20 Miracle Workers
A peek into the elite team of OR nurses who
successfully helped separate conjoined twins.
By Rachel Berger
23 In Memoriam
Honoring NNU RN members who've died while
fighting Covid-19
24 2020 Editorial Index
Our annual handy listing of all the stories we
published throughout the year, grouped by topic.
Of course, much of it was Covid, Covid, Covid.
Contents
ON THE COVER: Charalyn Lamarca, an RN
at Providence Saint John's Health Center, joined
with colleagues at Providence Little Company
of Mary Medical Center Torrance to hold
a socially distanced, masked rally on Aug. 5.
Photo by Denice Martin.
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