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The Department of Health has said that the new guidelines only clarify existing abortion laws and there’s been no change in the role nurses and midwives have played in abortion since the 1980s. But activists are trading punches through the press and social media.
More than 100 U.S. military nurses were stationed at base hospitals in the Philippines on Dec. 7, 1941. As the U.S. entered the war, Frances Nash and Peggy Nash faced deluges of wounded, says Mary Cronk Farrell in this excerpt from “Pure Grit.”
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Opponents of minimum-staffing bills say they are too rigid, but supporters say more nurses will improve hospital outcomes as the Affordable Care Act boosts patient admissions and aims to lower rates of infection.
Tabitha Waugh, a registered nurse in a West Virginia hospital, can’t complain about the pay. But it’s tough finding time with her kids and the work takes a toll, physically and mentally. “I just don’t want to do direct patient care forever,” she said.
A national nurses’ union is lobbying for a single-payer health care system, saying it’s the only plan most Americans can afford. Proponents also argue that Medicare-for-all is more fiscally hawkish than Romney’s new running mate.