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Contents
Departments
4 News Briefs
Villaraigosa wins LA mayorship with
CNA help; Initiative threatens voice
of RNs, public workers; Working Assets
supports RNs; R
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Help for Californians;
Status of 2005 CNA-sponsored bills; 2005
bargaining watch; Judge finally upholds
ratios in ruling.
10 No to Arnold, No to Corporate
California, No in November
Corporations have invested millions of
dollars backing Gov. Schwarzenegger's
special election initiatives in pursuit of
greater profit. RNs must fight back on
behalf of working Californians.
By Rose Ann DeMoro
38 Correctional Nurses and
Collective Patient Advocacy
Conclusions and recommendations
from CNA's first Correctional
Nursing Task Force
Submitted by the Joint Nursing
Practice Commission
Cover Story
12 Summer Syllabus
More than 45 million Americans are uninsured,
and others are going bankrupt because they're
underinsured. Nurses are overloaded with too
many patients. A quarter of our kids are obese.
With American health in crisis, publishers
are cranking out more books on nursing and
healthcare than ever before. Learn what's
being written about the debate.
Feature
18 Watch Your Back
Why a lift team would have helped Karen Roy,
RN, avoid a lifetime of pain.
By Lucia Hwang
July/August
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2005
HOUSE OF DELEGATES MEETING IN OAKLAND THIS FALL
CNA's House of Delegates will be convening at the Oakland Convention
Center from Sept. 21–23, 2005. Delegates will attend educational work-
shops and hearings the first two days, and the House of Delegates
will be in session the last day.
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L.A's New Pro-CNA Mayor 12
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Reading Rainbow 6
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A Month in Pictures 18
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Backbreaking Work
