4 News Briefs
RNs and community fight Mayo plans to
downgrade hospital 5 | What Calais OB closure
portends for community 6 | CNA/NNOC nurses
unite at 2017 convention 8 | Techs and LPNs at
Maine Coast Memorial unionize; RNs near Lake
Tahoe vote to go union; 9 | West Anaheim RNs
unionize; Hi-Desert RNs say yes to union 10 | San
Diego VA RNs shine spotlight on eroding patient
care 11 | RNs again ranked tops for honesty, ethics;
Providence RNs win new contract 12 | Citrus Valley
RNs reach new contract; Hemet Valley nurses
approve new contract; Palomar nurses and care -
givers win new agreement; Rideout RNs approve
new contract; Tri-City RNs ratify new pact; Ventura
County RNs seal new contract; Maine hospice
workers hold vigil 13 | Opioid exposure a real work
risk for nurses 14 | Nurses pull together during
Northern California wildfires
15 Robbed of Our Health
How the GOP tax bill not only jeopardizes
working-class pocketbooks, but also our lives.
By RoseAnn DeMoro
16 The Rescuers
RNRN nurse volunteers were shocked by our
government's inaction in Puerto Rico, and quickly
got to work themselves.
By Kari Jones
20 Practice What We Preach
Meet NNU's Joint Nursing Practice Commission
and learn what they do
22 More Than Words
Reviewing the events of 2017 through photos.
29 Editorial Index 2017
Use our handy 2017 editorial index to locate
content from this past year. Not quite a search
engine, but it works! Even we use it.
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ON THE COVER: At an October press conference,
registered nurse Cathy Kennedy, an NNU vice
president and lead coordinator of NNU's Regis-
tered Nurse Response Network deployment to
Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, shows areas
of the island where RN volunteers provided aid.
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