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decided to jump in and join them.
"Arnold Schwarzenegger is not helping us, and the nurses are
saying he's got to go, so I support that and respect that," said
Amanee Hearne, a high school senior at Oakland School for the
Arts who joined in the march with five of her classmates. Hearne's
aunt is a nurse, and her friend's sis-
ter is also an RN.
Many of the RN delegates said
that they now have the job of taking
what they've learned at the House
and educating coworkers and
friends back at work. Some planned
to make better use of their profes-
sional practice committees, conduct
more regional outreach activities,
and just start talking to people one
on one.
"When you look at the nursing pro-
fession, especially in Southern Cali-
fornia, nurses are just starting to get
outside their profession, getting more
socially and politically conscious,"
said Gloria Espino-Diaz, a pediatric
oncology RN at City of Hope in
Duarte. "I will definitely use different
strategies to talk to my friends."
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