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News Briefs
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Honoring Life
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Onward and Upward
Social network sites pose big problems for nurses
5 | Bill to partially restore VA nurses' rights
advances 6 | North Adams RNs ready to strike to
defend contract and patients 7 | NNU national bill
update 8 | Michigan RNs make bus tour for
candidate 9 | Florida RNs go local with ratios
10 | Maine RNs fight to include ratios in contract;
Minnesota RN bargaining at critical juncture; Ohio
RNs celebrate Medicare's 45th birthday; Texas RN
leaders hold statewide bargaining conference
Nurses who value people over profits move beyond
the bedside. By Rose Ann DeMoro
In our annual summer book review, we find that
nurses' stories are taking off everywhere.
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