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In a move likely to spark nationwide RN protests, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found that permanent charge nurses at Taylor, MI-based Oakwood Heritage Hospital were indeed supervisors, making those nurses and others like them ineligible for union representation. In two other related cases regarding the Golden Crest Healthcare Center nursing home and manufacturer Croft Metals, the board found that the employees in question were not supervisors. While the NLRB found that …

The word is on the street today that a new NLRB ruling will broaden the legal definition of the term "supervisor," a move nursing activists claim is a tactic designed to bust unionization in their ranks. The NRLB has not officially released its ruling on the Oakwood Healthcare case, the most prominent of several pending cases touching on the right of RNs and other workers to …

> The FDA has fined the Red Cross $4.2 million for violating laws that keep the blood supply safe. Report

> The problems at John Muir Medical Center continue as the California Nurses Association says nurses there have agreed to strike if necessary. Report

> A plan is in the words to build a new …

> A bill moving through the California Legislature would allow state regulators to fine hospitals for providing improper patient care. Originally, the fines could be as high as $100,000, but lawmakers have adjusted that to $50,000, which should make the bill easier to pass.  …

A bill moving through the California Legislature would allow state regulators to fine hospitals $100,000 for providing improper patient care. The bill would be enacted in two steps. First, regulators could slap hospitals with a $25,000 fine for endangering patients by January 1. Second, regulators could pursue the $100,000 fine, taking into consideration the hospital's history of compliance. The bill, which is supported by the SEIU, California Medical Association and California Nurses …

Nurses nationwide are planning to weigh in loudly this weekend on an upcoming ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The ruling in question could potentially reclassify hundreds of thousands of nurses as supervisors. Should the NLRB decided to broaden the definition of supervisor, it would make many RNs ineligible for union representation. Needless to say, nurses are outraged by the situation. They view a negative decision as an erosion of their rights as workers, an attack …

The powerful California Nurses Association is reveling in the defeat it helped hand Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in last week's special election. Now, it appears that the nurses have won the fight which initially caused relations between the governor and nurses groups to deteriorate in the first place. On Thursday, Schwarzenegger's administration abandoned its effort to legally block new staffing rules which will require hospitals to hire more nurses to meet minimum nurse-to-patient …

> The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to a pair of Australian researchers who discovered that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori--not stress--is responsible for most ulcers. Article

> A new Deloitte survey finds hospital CEOs to be "guardedly optimistic" about their financial future. Release

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The California Nurses Association, the group which has made life decidedly uncomfortable for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger over the last year, has launched its own blog to continue its political fight against his administration. Schwarzenegger originally angered the nurses group with his opposition to new staffing requirements at California hospitals. Since then, relations between the governor and nurses have gone steadily downhill. Blog