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:
10 Meet theNew SEIU
At its June convention, SEIU delegates adopted a programof anti-worker initiatives that position the union to expand, but at the expense of member and RN representation and democracy.

12 A Labor of Love
Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro has dedicated over twenty years of her life to empowering Registered Nurses

14 Hostile Takeover
Rita Valenti, a registered nurse at GradyHealth System, explains how a starvation diet of funds and unrelenting corporate pressure forced Georgia’s biggest public hospital to go private this year.What’s the future for public institutions like Grady? By Rita Valenti, RN

18 FollowingHer Lead
UC San Diego RN JaniceWebb loves to teach and nurture new nurses, and has parlayed that passion intomentoring a whole nurses’movement as a CNA/NNOC boardmember. By Erika Larson

DEPARTMENTS
4 News Briefs
Fed up with the private insurance industry, thousands champion Medicare for all on June 19; Northern California communities rally around Sutter RNs; Texas RNs Testify in Favor of Ratios; Bills in California and around the country to track in 2008;Modesto, Calif. RNs win new contract; 800 Pa. nurses avoid strike, ratify new deal; Ohio nurses take steps towards safe staffing legislation;Maine nurses fight for contract improvements.

9 Not So Golden Years
Caring for an aging parent is unimaginably hard, and having to fight health insurers to get needed caremakes it even tougher.
By Rose Ann DeMoro

ON THE COVER: Missy Gorbet, RN, from Corpus Christi, Texas (left), and Robert Marth, RN, from Fremont, Calif., demand single-payer healthcare at a June 19 rally in San Francisco.

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REGISTERED NURSE,™ (ISSN 1932-8966) The Journal of Patient Advocacy, April 2008 Volume 104/3 is published by  California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, 2000 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612-2908.

It provides news of organizational activities and reports on developments of concern to all registered nurses across the nation. It also carries general coverage and commentary on matters of nursing practice, community and public health, and healthcare policy. It is published monthly except for combined issues in January and February, and July and August.

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LETTER FROM THE COUNCIL OF PRESIDENTS

AT CNA/NNOC, we have always prided ourselves on being the nation’s premier nurses’ union run by and for working staff nurses. The motivating factor behind our 1992 revolution and restructuring was the belief that staff nurse members should have a greater stake in leading and controlling a union that was dominated by corporate-friendly management nurses. For far too long, women and nurses (who are still predominantly female) have been told to keep their heads down and have faith that the “higher-ups” knowwhat’s best for them.

We’re proud not only of bucking that advice, but of proving it wrong. Since they took power in 1992, the staff nurses of CNA/NNOC have become some of the most admired and powerful workers and political figures in the entire country.

We’re proud of our organization or of its achievements. Speaking of achievements, the nurse leadership at CNA/NNOC continues to charge ahead in leading the call for change and action.We’re proud to report back to you on the enormously successful June 19 action for guaranteed, single-payer healthcare, which took place in San Francisco and a number of other cities across America. Thousands of concerned citizens showed up to protest the greed and heartlessness of the private health insurance industry and to tell their own stories of struggle and “death by denial.” It was a sobering reminder of why we’re leading this charge, and why the only real healthcare reform is the kind that covers every single person, and not one less, with the same high quality of care.

Also in this issue, we’re happy to bring you positive updates on the Sutter Health RNs’ fight for justice. Sutter RNs on both sides of the San Francisco Bay have enjoyed enormous community support over the past several months, a foundation which has bolstered and energized them in the continuing crusade for patient safety and workers’ rights.

We’re also pleased to report back from not one, but two states where NNOC RNs are making great strides in bringing safe staffing ratios to hospitals throughout their communities: Texas and Ohio. We’ll also report on legislation affecting nurses in California, in which CNA/NNOC has been involved and active. Plus a fascinating and disturbing first-hand report from an RN whose large public hospital in Atlanta was just privatized.

No doubt about it, things are heating up in the national nurses’ movement this summer. We say thank you to our nurse activists for keeping the heat turned up high!

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

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