News Room Archive

2010

• Nurses Blast Obama Administration Decision to Stop Requiring Employers to Report Back Injuries Press Release, National Nurses United, January 26, 2011

• Nurses push for nurse-to-patient ratios Lema Samandar, Sydney Morning Herald, September 20, 2010

• Big health insurers to stop selling new child-only policies Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2010

• Warren General Hospital to outsource lab work Lydia Cottrell, Times Observer, October 13, 2010

• Federal Health Care Law Provides for Breaks for Nursing Mothers Catherine Barbiero, FMLA Blog, October 7, 2010

• Rose Ann DeMoro Wants Hospitals to Scream Dune Lawrence, Bloomberg Businessweek, July 22, 2010

• Temple Health System chief Notebaert is stepping down, Jane von Bergen, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 2010

• Is There a Nurse in the House?, Theresa Brown, New York Times, June 18, 2010

• Temple nurses eligible for unemployment during work stoppage, Jane Von Bergen, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2010

• Chicago Nurses Vote to Join National Nurses United, Mike Hall, AFL-CIO Blog, May 21, 2010

• Twin Cities nurses say 'no' on hospital contract offers, Jeremy Olson, Pioneer Press, May 20, 2010

• More Nurses Mean More Patients Live, Theresa Brown, RN, CNN, May 11, 2010

• Temple and nurses settle strike, Jane Von Bergen, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 2010

• New owner profit-centered, nurses say Andrew M. Seder, Times Leader, April 25, 2010

• More Nurses, Less Death, Stacey Burling, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 2010

• 2 Weeks Later, Temple Nurses in Good Spirits, Gustavo Martínez Contreras, Philadelphia Weekly, April 13, 2010 April 20, 2010

• The Cost of Temple Hospital Replacement Workers Jane Von Bergen, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 9, 2010




2009

• Staffing Cuts Make Nurses Leave
  Letter to Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer, by PASNAP President Patricia Eakin, RN, June 6, 2009

• Pipe Down. Dear Temple Nurses, Please Don't Tell Anyone About Any of Our Problems. Thanks, Management. Joshua Fernandez, November 23, 2009, City Paper




2005

• Cook County (Illinois) Nurses Vote to Leave the Illinois Nurses Association
• Healthcare Workers Rally in Harrisburg to End Mandatory Overtime
• Medical Money Pit
• Nurses, Firefighters & Teachers Protest Against Scwarzenegger
• CA Ratios Law Must Go Into Effect - Judge Rules Against Schwarzenegger
• CA Governor's decision to roll back ratios ignites bitter battle
• Catholic Hospitals out of Tune with Church Teachings on Unions
• Unions Protest against Schwarzenegger
• Visa Quotas to Worsen Shortage of U.S. Nurses
• Catholic Hospitals out of Tune with Church Teachings on Unions 
• Unions Protest against Schwarzenegger
• Visa Quotas to Worsen Shortage of U.S. Nurses
• California Nurses Association denounces Governor's position on ratios
• RN Shortage Is Health Peril - PASNAP Before PA House Panel
• USA Today:  California's Ratios Law Improves Patient Care!
• Delaware County Daily Times: Nursing Shortage Reaching Critical Stage
• Shortage of Nurses is Hazardous to Your Health



2004

• NJ Nurses Push for Ratios 3/1/04
• New Zealand Nurses Seek Ratios 3/1/04
• WV Bans Mandatory Overtime 2/25/04
• NJ Bans Forced Overtime 2/21/04
• New Staffing Law Helps, CA Nurses Say 2/5/04
• Nurses Detail Dangers to PA Legislators At PASNAP-Sponsored Speak Out 1/30/04
• California Nurses Working Conditions Improving With Ratios Law 2/5/04
• Nurses Rush To Register In CA With New Ratios Law 1/16/04
• Foreign Nurses Decry Hurdles 1/11/04
• Shortage forces hospitals to get creative 1/6/04
• CA requiring More Nurses in Hospitals 1/3/04
  



2003

• Hospitals make last ditch effort to stop ratios 12/29/03
• CNA and SEIU to Join Forces 12/15/03
• Workers Bear Brunt of rising health care costs 12/8/03
• Minimums for Nurses Needed 12/1/03
• Two health care unions align goals 12-6-03
• Op Ed: Ban Forced Overtime For Nurses Now 11/14/03
• Choosing a health plan 10/15/03
• Warren Hospital Nurses & Social Workers Settle Contract 10/3/03
• Mass Nurses focus on staffing 9/17/03
• Lower Bucks Hospital Nurses Settle Contract 7/2/03
• California sets staffing regulations 7/1/2003
• Harvard Study on Nurse Understaffing 2002
• New Law limits residents' hours 7/1/03 
• Mass Nurses Fight for Staffing Ratios 6/19/03
• Read about the PASNAP Nurses' Summit here! 2003
• Nursing Enrollment Up, Crisis Lingers 5/27/03
• Temple Doc Chosen PA Secretary of Health 4/22/03
• Mandatory OT bill introduced in Mass 2-12-03
• Mandatory OT bill introduced in WV 2-13-03
• CDC Fact sheet on the smallpox vaccine 1/03
• Shot of caution 1/1/03 
  



2002

• Can Smallpox be as simple as 1,2,3? 12/02
• Lost health benefits affects middle class 11/25/02
• Dying for a Nurse 11/13/02
• Nurses publicize need for ratios 11/02
• Insider Sales Cloud Tenet Tale
• Stock plunges with Tenet Regrouping 11/8/02 
• Jeannette Rns Approve New Contract 11/2/02 
• Philadelphia Inquirer Article on U. Penn Study 10/23/02
• Hospital Stays Shorter, Cost Higher 10/02
• Nurse Shortage to Worsen 9/02
• Report of Dept. of Health and Human Services on Nursing Shortage 7/02