Registered Nurse magazine not only covers the activities of the California Nurses Association and National Nurses Organizing Committee, but also strives to produce hard-hitting news features and thoughtful analyses about nursing and the real ills plaguing the U.S. healthcare system.

You’ll find true stories from the front lines of care given by the nation’s 2.5 million registered nurses, as well as articles about nursing practice, public health, healthcare policy, and the healthcare industry. Through our reporting, we hope to inspire a movement toward a humane and just healthcare system for all. The magazine is published 10 times per year by CNA/NNOC, with combined issues in summer and winter.

Contents:
FEATURES
10 Got Insurance? SoWhat?
Having insurance hasn't spared these patients frompaying the hard way, with their health and livelihoods.

18 Connections and Layovers
World traveler and CNA/NNOC Board of Directorsmember LauriHoagland, RN, NP has alwaysmade the connection between social justice and healthcare. By Erika Larson

9 Lessons Learned
The battle to defeat faux healthcare reformin California taught the public the big differences between health insurance and healthcare. By Rose Ann DeMoro

20 PublicHealth and Retail Clinics
Retail clinics promising cheap, quick health services are popping up at drugstores and big box stores around the country. Learnmore about what separates these businesses fromtraditional healthcare provider settings and how they pose a grave danger to public health and welfare. Submitted by the Joint Nursing Practice Commission andHedy Dumpel, RN, JD

Download Registered Nurse magazine, January/February 2008

PDF format, 3.28MB, 28Pages.

REGISTERED NURSE,™ (ISSN 1932-8966) The Journal of Patient Advocacy, January/February 2008Volume 104/1 is published by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, 2000 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612-2908.

LETTER FROM THE COUNCIL OF PRESIDENTS

Things move so fast here at CNA/NNOC that it’s hard to single out specific moments to note, but we’re happy to report that the organization has had a phenomenal couple of months and a few events stand out.

First off, the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurse and Allied Professionals (PASNAP) decided to affiliate with CNA/NNOC in January, growing our overall national membership to 80,000 and bringing on a whole cadre of passionate, determined, activist registered nurses to help us in our ongoing fight tomake sure all patients have access to one, high-quality standard of care and that nurses across the country are able to safely practice nursing the way we know it can be.

PASNAP is a growing, feisty union, and we’ll be combining forces and resources to take the country by storm.

econd, CNA/NNOC in California spearheaded an amazing political upset of the insurance industry and the politicians who love them (and their campaign cash). The health committee of the California Senate overwhelmingly voted down a dangerous, anti-consumer, anti-patient bill that would have required every Californian to buy private health insurance,with no guarantees of affordability or caps on costs, or face garnishment of wages or mortgage liens.

Even worse, states across the country were hoping to pass similar laws if the California measure passed! Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had teamed up to ram this horrible measure through the Legislature, but thanks to our leadership and education of the labor movement and the public, we convinced the committee to kill the bill. We stopped California and perhaps the rest of the nation fromstarting down a very treacherous road. Thankfully, we can now focus on mapping out how to build the road to single-payer healthcare.

To do that, we need to create and build a popular revolt of patients against the current system, and we've started by collecting the stories of people denied medical care. Frequently, these are patients who have insurance policies, but find them useless in insuring against bankruptcy, foreclosure, and further illness because they can't afford the rising premiums, copays, and deductibles the companies charge at will. Some of them are even registered nurses.We're going to be leading these patients to action.

So if you haven’t made resolutions, here’s one to make: Promise that this year you will work to make single-payer healthcare happen for America.We’ve got all sorts of activities that you can plug into through our guaranteed healthcare.

org website like letter writing and petition gathering, but there’s somuch you can do out on your own in the community to build momentum for this desperately needed reform. Educate yourself and share what you know with your church, your relatives, your kid’s soccer league, and your neighbors. They’ll listen to you. You’re a nurse.

Deborah Burger, RN | Geri Jenkins, RN
MalindaMarkowitz, RN | Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN
CNA/NNOC Council of Presidents

Comments (1)

Show/Hide comments

Name

Email

Website

Title

Comment

smaller | bigger

Add Comment