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Healthcare and Big Data: Digital spectors and phantom
objects. July/August/September p. 16.
Medical Cannabis: What clinicians need to know and why.
July/August/September p. 16.
On Living. July/August/September p. 17.
ELECTIONS
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND JUSTICE
Historic floods devastate nurse members' lives. RNRN helps
with donation. May/June p. 8.
Central Coast RNs successfully lobby county to reject oil
trains. July/August/September p. 9.
Amid tribal pipeline fight, internal AFL-CIO letter exposes
"very real split." July/August/September p. 18.
Showing Unity. Nurses support DAPL protest for all our
futures. July/August/September p. 21.
The Art of Protecting. For nurses, oil pipelines are out, a just
transition to green energy is in. Find out how RNs joined in
the #NoDAPL movement to win environmental and health
justice. October/November/December p. 10.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S COLUMN
Safety First. It's time for RNs to take their own health and
safety as seriously as their patients'. January/February p. 11.
Never Waiver. Nurses' steadfast fight for justice culminated
this year at the People's Summit, and continues on.
March/April p. 14.
Prop. 61 Can Set National Model. Time to fight back against
Big Pharma. May/June p. 13.
Attack Mode. The assault on regulatory public protections
accelerates. July/August/September p. 10.
The Golden Rule. Sanders' and nurses' shared vision of com-
passion must drive our challenging work ahead.
October/November/December p. 9.
HEALTHCARE REFORM
Dr. Quentin Young explains why national health insurance is good
medicine, and a tribute to his passing. January/February p. 8.
How Big Pharma maintains stranglehold on drug supply and
prices. New research reports detail all aspects of industry.
July/August/September p. 7.
HOSPITAL SYSTEMS
Major NLRB trial against Community Health Systems begins.
January/February p. 4.
RNs and community outraged over Sutter's planned closure
of Alta Bates. May/June p. 6.
INTERNATIONAL NURSING AND SOLIDARITY
Queensland Nurses' Union in Australia passes updated
staffing ratios. March/April p. 13.
Unnecessary Risk. RNs around the world suffer alarming rates
of workplace violence, but did you know it's all mostly pre-
ventable? Learn what employers should be doing to provide
safe workplaces, and how nurses are taking action to hold
them accountable. May/June p. 14.
LEGISLATION
Massachusetts nurses stave off ill-conceived hold provision of
opioid bill. January/February p. 6.
Face to Face. Through lobby visits with legislators, registered
nurses put a human face on the bills they champion to pro-
tect themselves and their patients. March/April p. 26.
RNs win law to reform observation units. May/June p.7.
NURSING PRACTICE AND PROFESSION
California Board of Registered Nursing reelects Michael
Jackson, RN as president and adds other CNA/NNOC
affiliated members. March/April p. 13.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
Safety First. It's time for RNs to take their own health and safe-
ty as seriously as their patients'. January/February p. 11.
RNs focus on health and safety in 2016 Staff Nurse Assembly.
March/April p. 19.
Unnecessary Risk. RNs around the world suffer alarming rates
of workplace violence, but did you know it's all mostly pre-
ventable? Learn what employers should be doing to provide
safe workplaces, and how nurses are taking action to hold
them accountable. May/June p. 14.
California state safety board adopts new workplace violence
prevention regulations. July/August/September p. 5.
Editorial Index 2016
