Health Reform Advances 2,300 Miles Away from DC

Submitted by Anna on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 14:11

Donna Smith
December 9, 2009

While the healthcare reform legislative debate lumbers on in the Senate, the biggest advance for U.S. patients came early this week in Phoenix. Nurses joined three separate nurses’ unions into an RN “super union” with the goals of improving the professional lives of clinical RNs and building a healthcare system based on compassion and patient need, not on greed.

Nurses from 23 states are part of the new union, National Nurses United, and represent nurses organized in the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, the Massachusetts Nurses Association and the United American Nurses.

More than 150,000 nurses are joined together to ensure hospitals and clinics where they practice are centers of healing, not profit centers for speculators and CEOs and to promote the profession and honor the dedication of front line nurses with safe conditions, fair compensation, and the ability to retire in dignity.

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