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Guest: Jean Ross

Coming up on the Nurse Talk podcast this week is RN Jean Ross. Jean works at Fairview Hospital in Edina, Minn. and is Secretary Treasurer of the United American Nurses Executive Council and now one of three co-presidents of the just  formed RN SuperUnion-National Nurses United. Nurse Talk host Casey Hobbs talks with Jean on the eve of the historic “super union” conference in Phoenix. Jean shares some history about her work with the United American Nurses and about how the new National Nurses United was formed and what it hopes to accomplish. The new union represents over 150,000 RN members. “There will never be a more ‘perfect’ union’, says Casey Read more…

“Nurses from three unions, including the powerful California Nurses Association, have founded a new national union to influence national health care policies and try to extend California’s patient ratio law into other states.Organizers said the 150,000-member National Nurses United, the largest professional union for registered nurses in the country, will also flex its power to push for a stronger voice in the health care overhaul process going on in Congress and the expansion of representation for nonunion nurses.”From theSan Francisco ChronicleVictoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff WriterTuesday, December 8, 2009Read more Read more…