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Contents
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Community Health Systems RNs hold national day
of actions 6 | Massachusetts RNs deliver signatures
for ballot measures 7 | DC nurse win first union
election in decades; Minnesota RNs present united
front to Allina Health 8 | Good Sam RNs in LA
protest plan to cut charge nurses; Kindred Hospital
RNs in Southern California unionize; Orlando
Health RNs hold press conference to expose
employer union-busting
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News Briefs
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Donna Smith visited the Land Down Under
to encourage Aussie nurses to continue their
fight against privatization of their public health
system and share some horror stories of the
American system they can expect if they don't.
Brave New World, Again
How the ACA is restructuring care and the nursing
process. By RoseAnn DeMoro
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Aftermath
By Donna Smith
Though Typhoon Haiyan is already fading from the
headlines, RNRN nurse volunteers are committed
to caring for the many victims still suffering.
DECEMBER 2013
My Walkabout
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2013 Editorial Index
Remember reading an article that you're now
having trouble finding? Just refer to our handydandy editorial index of everything we've run
over the past year in these pages.
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