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.

FEATURES
11 Open Books
We read so you don’t have to (as much). Our annual summer book review special covers everything from the U.S. healthcare crisis to the spiritual side of medicine and healing.

18 Getting Results
Brenda Langford, RN has always focused on getting results for patients. By Lucia Hwang

DEPARTMENTS
4 News Briefs
RNs warn that hospitals are not prepared for swine flu; CNA/NNOC holds national convention in September; CNA/NNOC RNs help shape global HIV and AIDS policies at ILO; RNs in San Jose and Concord, Calif. settle new contracts; Kaiser RNs win fight to save after-hours clinic, for now; Chicagoland RNs distribute school supplies in Bud Billiken Parade; Maine RNs support state takeover of community hospital; Ohio RNs garner support for federal ratios bill; Texas nurses witness prosecution of whistle-blower Winkler RNs.

10 Single-Payer Pearls Before Swine
How the national healthcare debate is missing the connection between expanding Medicare for all and a strong defense against H1N1. By Rose Ann DeMoro

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ON THE COVER: Reiko Furuya, an RN at St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, Calif., protests at an Aug. 5 rally in front of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center against many hospitals' inadequate infection control protocols for swine flu. Photo by Lauren Reid.

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LETTER FROM THE COUNCIL OF PRESIDENTS
as a registered nurse, you may have noticed and been worried by reports this summer that outbreaks of H1N1 influenza, known by the more popular name of swine flu, have continued popping up at U.S. summer camps, and that the virus appears to be going gangbusters in the southern hemisphere, where it’s winter.

And those who have studied the great flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide, know that the virus’ first circulation through the population during a spring was relatively mild, but that the second and subsequent waves were lethal, utterly overwhelming countries and their burgeoning healthcare systems.

Does any of this sound too familiar? Meanwhile, our hospital employers and many health officials seem to have buried their heads in the sand. ...

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The California Nurses Association, and its national arm, the National Nurses Organizing Committee, is one of the nation’s premiere nurses’ organizations and health care unions. One of the fastest growing health care organizations in the U.S., CNA/NNOC presently has 80,000 members in 50 states, representing nurses at scores of hospitals, clinics, and home health agencies. Since 2000, over 19,000 RNs at 50 hospitals have elected to affiliate with CNA.

CNA/NNOC is a leading national advocate for universal healthcare reform, through a single-payer style system based on an improved and expanded Medicare for all. In 2007, CNA/NNOC is campaigning for single-payer legislation, HR 676 in Congress, and SB 840 in California.

Additionally, CNA/NNOC has attracted national and international acclaim for sponsoring the nation’s foremost RN patient safety law requiring minimum RN-to-patient ratios, the most effective solution in the U.S. for stemming the erosion of care standards in hospitals.

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