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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 161
Author: Bonnie Lowenthal (D), et al
Amended: 6/21/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE OR FILE
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Read and adopted, 5/6/10
SUBJECT : California Nurses Week 2010
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution proclaims May 9 through 15 as
California Nurses Week 2010.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following
legislative findings:
1. The registered nurses of the California Nurses
Association, United Nurses of America, Nurse Alliance of
California, United Nurses Associations of
California/Union of Health Care Professionals, National
Nurses United, and other nursing organizations are
committed advocates for each and every patient.
2. The California Nurses Association was founded in 1903,
as the first organization to represent nurses in
California.
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3. Over the past 107 years, 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. The California Nurses Association, United Nurses of
America, Nurse Alliance of California, United Nurses
Associations of California/Union of Health Care
Professionals, National Nurses United, and other nursing
organizations provide a powerful and effective
collective voice for registered nurses.
8. The safe, high-quality health care services provided by
registered nurses somehow touch the lives of every
single person in California.
9. 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 all
nurses working throughout California's health care
system to provide safe, high-quality patient care and
patient services.
This resolution proclaims May 9 through 15 as California
Nurses Week 2010.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/22/10)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees
California Nurses Association
United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health
Care Professionals
CTW:mw 6/22/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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