4 News Briefs
Nurses held historic events Sept. 1 to call for Wall
Street Transaction Tax 7 | University of Michigan
RNs step up fight for fair contract 8 | 23,000
nurses jolt California with massive strike; 9 | NNU
director named influential in healthcare; 10 |
Florida RNs picket for safe staffing; Minnesota RNs
at Bemidji settle contract; Texas nurses make
progress in contract talks; VA RNs convene to
strategize and learn about workplace violence
11 Unity is Key
Solidarity among nurses is critical to the profession.
By RoseAnn DeMoro
12 Unconventional Methods
At our 2011 gathering, nurses learned they have the
power, the vision, and the know-how they need to
win a Main Street Contract for the American People.
16 Moving Mountains
Showing it can be done, Vermont is the first state
in the country to decisively move toward building
a single-payer method of healthcare financing.
By Donna Smith
18 CE HOME STUDY
HIPAA—The Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability
Act, Part 2
If the privacy laws under HIPAA have got you
confused, take this home study CE to sort out what
you need to know.
Submitted by the Joint Nursing
Practice Commission, DeAnn McEwen, RN, and
Hedy Dumpel, RN, JD
ON THE COVER: Washington, D.C. RN Sandra
Falwell (in red NNU scrub top) holds hands
with other nurses and labor leaders during
a Sept. 1 sit-in protest in front of Rep. Eric
Cantor's office in Virginia.
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