BILL NUMBER: ACR 161	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 3, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal

                        APRIL 19, 2010

   Relative to California Nurses Week 2010.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 161, as amended, Bonnie Lowenthal. California Nurses Week
2010.
   This measure would proclaim May 9 through 15 as California Nurses
Week 2010.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The registered nurses of the California Nurses
Association  and National Nurses United   ,
United Nurses of America, Nurse Alliance of California, National
Nurses United, and other nursing organizations  are committed
advocates for each and every patient; and
   WHEREAS, The California Nurses Association was founded in 1903, as
the first organization to represent nurses in California; and
   WHEREAS, Over the  past  107 years  of its proud
history, the California Nurses Association has   ,
California nurses have  achieved lifesaving gains in patient
care and patient safety conditions for all Californians through
sponsored legislation, public regulation, and collective action in
patient care settings; and
   WHEREAS, The California Nurses Association has played an
instrumental role in the creation of National Nurses United in 2009,
bringing together 150,000 nurses from every state to promote patient
advocacy across the nation; and 
   WHEREAS, The California Nurses Association, National Nurses
United, and its affiliate the Registered Nurse Response Network,

    WHEREAS, California  nurses have displayed great
humanitarian spirit with their efforts to help care for the patients
and nurses of Haiti in the aftermath of that nation's devastating
earthquake; and 
   WHEREAS, The California Nurses Association's registered 
    WHEREAS, California  nurses worked for many years to
achieve the nation's first safe registered nurse-to-patient ratio law
that studies have documented to reduce patient mortality in
California hospitals and help mitigate the nursing shortage; and
   WHEREAS, The California Nurses Association  provides
  , United Nurses of America, Nurse Alliance of
California, National Nur   ses United, and other nursing
organizations provide  a powerful and effective collective voice
for registered nurses; and
   WHEREAS, The safe, high-quality health care services provided by
registered nurses somehow touch the lives of every single person in
California; and 
   WHEREAS, Registered nurses are often the last line of defense for
patient safety in a medical industry that increasingly places
corporate profits ahead of patient needs; and 
   WHEREAS, Nationally, May 6 through 12 is recognized as National
Nurses Week 2010, and nurses working in all areas of health care in
California will commemorate May 9 through 15 as California Nurses
Week 2010, in celebration of  the many ways the California
Nurses Association and its members and all nurses   all
nurses  working throughout California's health care system 
to  provide safe, high-quality patient care and patient
services; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby proclaims May 9
through 15 as California Nurses Week 2010, in recognition of the
 many contributions that the California Nurses Association
and its members   many contributions that all nurses
 have made to improve the health and safety of all Californians
and to express deep appreciation to all of the state's nurses during
that week and throughout the years to come; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature asks all Californians to join in
 honoring the registered nurses of the California Nurses
Association and all registered   honoring all 
nurses who provide the highest quality health care services to the
public; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.