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News Briefs
NNU Fever Sweeps the Lone Star State 6 | Twin
Cities RNs Stage Country's Largest-Ever Nursing
Strike 7 | University of California Nurses Continue
Protests Over Unsafe Staffing 8 | VA Nurses Fight
for Bargaining Rights 9 | Bill Would Reduce Back
Injuries Among Nurses 10 | Univ. of Chicago RNs
Vote for Direct Representation in National Nurses
United 11 | Quincy Medical Center Nurses Protest
Hospital's Refusal to Negotiate New Contract
12 | Video Footage Mysteriously Disappears from
Michigan Hospital; Maine Nurses Hold Patient
Advocacy Conference 13 | Wrap-Up Report
Many Battles for RNs in the
Fight for Patient Advocacy
Across the country, nurses are speaking truth
to power. By Rose Ann DeMoro
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A Vision Realized
At National Nurses United's RN Heroes
conference, a movement came into its own.
National Nurses United's
Council of Presidents—Jean Ross, RN, Karen
Higgins, RN, and Deborah Burger, RN—
Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro and
Vice President Sandra Falwell, RN, lead over
1,000 nurses in a march in Washington,
D.C. May 12. Photo by Jaclyn Higgs.
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