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News Briefs
Wave of successful unionizing by Florida
RNs 5 | Eastern Maine Medical Center RNs
strike 6 | Sparrow RNs win landmark contract
with ratios 7 | Caritas RNs win landmark pension
benefit in new contract 8 | Despite a bleak
election year, NNU pulled off some major victories
9 | The midterm elections improved many stateby-state prospects for single-payer 10 | Texas RNs
begin push to introduce ratio legislation in 2011;
VA leadership visits Chicago facilities to discuss
NNU, staffing
Working Over Time
Washington wants to change Social Security so that
nurses and other Americans will have to work until
69 for far fewer benefits. By Rose Ann DeMoro
Not in a Day's Work
Workplace violence for registered nurses has always
been a problem, but has risen steeply in the past f
ive
years. Learn how nurses are fighting back.
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Brewing Storm
The recent push by the deficit reduction
commission to restructure Social Security and
Medicare is really an attack against the very idea of
social safety nets. By Carl Bloice
20 CE HOME STUDY
Scripting and Rounding:
Impact of the Corporate Care
Model on RN Autonomy and
Patient Advocacy, Part II
Earn CE credits by learning about the real
purpose and consequences of rounding and
scripting programs. Submitted by the Joint Nursing
Practice Commission, DeAnn McEwen, RN,
and Hedy Dumpel, RN, JD
NOVEMBER 2010
W W W. N A T I O N A L N U R S E S U N I T E D . O R G
N AT I O N A L N U R S E
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