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News Briefs
Massachusetts RNs reach 200,000 signature goal
for initiatives 5 | Michigan nurses elect new
president 6 | Minnesota RNs protest insurance
cuts; Aitkin RNs march on their CEO 7 | Nurses,
community pack DC ratios hearing 8 | Report on
Robin Hood Tax conference 9 | UC nurses preserve
pensions, benefits in new contract 10 | St. Louis
RNs win first contract; Reno nurses ratify new pact;
El Paso RNs win first contract
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Answering the Call
RNs answer the call to help Philippines after super
typhoon. By RoseAnn DeMoro
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To the Rescue
Bonnie Castillo, an RN with roots in public health,
heads up the Registered Nurse Response Network.
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More than Words
The year in pictures. From Massachusetts to
California, Texas to Minnesota, NNU nurses are
making history on the local, state, national, and
international stage.
Registered Nurse
Response Network volunteer Michelle
Vo, RN takes a Philippines typhoon
victim's blood pressure. RNRN volunteers are staffing mobile clinics
treating hundreds of people a day.
ON THE COVER:
NOVEMBER 2013
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