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News Briefs
National Safe Staffing Legislation Offers Hope
for Improved Patient Care 5 | Revolt Brewing
Against Health Insurance Industry 7 | Employers'
Proposals Threaten Patient Care, Say Minnesota
Nurses 8 | Michigan Nurses Combat Nurse-to-Nurse
Bullying 9 | Haiti Volunteer Ready to Go Again
10 | Nurses at Boston-Area Hospitals Protest Unsafe
Staffing 11 | NNOC Texas Rallies for RN Rights
12 | Florida RNs Mobilize to Improve Patient Care
13 | Maine Nurses Win Staffing Changes | University
of California Nurses Take Strike Vote 14 | South
Korean, U.S. Nurses Build Ties of Solidarity
15 | Wrap-Up Report
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Diary of a Wimpy
Healthcare Bill
The new federal law fails to challenge the
stranglehold of insurance companies on our
health system. By Rose Ann DeMoro
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Unconventional Medicine
Some nurses are taking their work out of the
hospital and into the community. By Heather Boerner
MARCH 2010
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CEO Saviors?
Consumer crusader Ralph Nader's new work
of fiction explores whether the rich can rescue
the world. By Carl Bloice
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What the Union
Has Done for Me
A Nevada nurse explains how organizing with
the California Nurses Association/National
Nurses Organizing Committee has changed
her life. By Jacquelyn Baugher, RN
ON THE COVER: Registered nurse Teresa Miller
(right) and community health worker Liz Esparza
work to bring lead poisoning rates down in their
rural California county. Photo by Nancy Dionne.
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