4 News Briefs
Colorado RNs vote to form state's first private-
sector union for NNU 5 | HCA's Mission Hospital
penalized nearly $30,000; Michigan Nurses
Association designs new implicit bias training
6 | Nurses continue fight for OSHA permanent
standard on Covid 7 | Seton nurses hold one-day
strike; Sparrow Home Care workers unionize
8 | Nurses picket 15 Sutter facilities 9 | Pandemic
is fueling Minnesota RNs' ongoing fight for safe
staffing 10 | Alhambra nurses ratify new contract;
Orange County charge RNs approve contract; King
City RNs ratify new contract; Oceanside nurses
approve new contract; Glendale nurses ratify
agreement; Maine ER nurses hold speak-out; VA
nurses in Florida and Illinois hold actions
11 New Normal
Nurses know that any return to previous routines
must incorporate multiple measures of infection
control.
By Bonnie Castillo, RN
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Don't try this at home
The national hospital industry is peddling
programs to treat acute-care patients at home,
instead of in the hospital where they belong.
By Rachel Berger and Lucia Hwang
16 We're not gonna take it
RNs hold national day of action to protest
short staffing crisis, no permanent OSHA
standard on Covid.
18 Homecoming
RNs organize to save and reclaim Watsonville
hospital for the local community.
By Lucy Diavolo
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ON THE COVER:
RNs at UC Davis Medical Cen-
ter in Sacramento, Calif. joined hundreds of their
NNU nurse colleagues during a Jan. 13 National
Day of Action to demand safe staffing.
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