Laboring for union nurses; With CNA's first win outside Calif., competition is heating up to organize registered nurses. Some say that's good for providers. Modern Healthcare (5/23/2005)
...California, nurses in 40 states have signed on...the union's board and members tout...patients per nurse. "We're an...the National Nurses Organizing Committee...operates in 27 states with its own...problem ...

Registered nurses key to good patient outcomes, study finds; But national nursing groups disagree over ratio laws and how best to recruit and retain quality nurses.(New England Journal of Medicine study)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included) Modern Healthcare (6/3/2002)
...to mandate nurse-to-patient...ratios in the state's hospital...to other states, however...ranks of registered nurses (May 6...judgment of the nurse-whether...Drenkard, chief nurse executive...will govern ...

No agreement on nurse staffing.(nurse staffing guidelines in California)(Brief Article) Modern Healthcare (3/19/2001)
...ratio of one nurse to every...proposed by the California Healthcare...hospitals. As California's Department...shortage of nurses could play...nurses who are registered but not working...steady, California ...

Credentialing guidelines for RN first assistants.(CLINICAL ISSUES)(registered nurses) AORN Journal (12/1/2007)
...their state's Board of Nursing to...detail in the state's nursing scope...definition. The California State Board of Nursing...contrast, your state may be similar...variation is to refer ...

Nurse's relationship with pt. results in disciplinary action: case on point: Tapp v. Board of Registered Nursing, 2002 WL 31820206 P.2d -CA. (Nursing Law Case on Point). Nursing Law's Regan Report (1/1/2003)
...ISSUE: Should a nurse be allowed to...extraordinary California case, a male...hospital. The State Board of Licensure...July 1999, the California Board of Registered Nursing (Board...Lawrence ...

Nurse as patient's advocate: RN's license suspended for incompetence, gross negligence.(Finnerty v. Board of Registered Nursing) Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession (12/1/2008)
...before the State Board of Nursing...years. The California Court of Appeal...decision. Nurse Physically...The charge nurse testified she...physicians and nurses have been trained...spot but the nurse wanted ...

Registered nurses' perceptions of nurse staffing ratios and new hospital payment regulations.(SPECIAL REPORT) Nursing Economics (11/1/2009)
...patient-to-nurse staffing ratios...Currently, only California has implemented mandatory nurse staffing ratios...at least 13 states have introduced...would mandate nurse staffing ratios...with data from boards of ...

University of California Nurses Deal Seen Raising the Bar for Other Hospitals. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (6/25/2002)
...registered nurses on Friday approved...2000, the state had 544 registered nurses working per...second-lowest nurse-to-population...the United States after Nevada...worse than the state ...

California Nurses March to Capitol. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (5/14/2004)
...say, one nurse to four emergency...additional nurse even when one nurse takes a five...t enough nurses in the state of California to make that...California Board of ...