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April 2005

• Health Care Professional Member of the Year: Anne Goldman
• See also: Representative Assembly 2005

March 2005

• Some good news for public education and health care in state budget
• Health, safety advocates share audacious ideas
• SRPs succeed with health fair
• Union program takes nurses back to school
• Union promotes awareness about colorectal cancer
• Union backs federal legislation to limit mandatory overtime for nurses
• Union fights for retirees' health coverage on federal front
• Get tested for colorectal cancer
• Smart about health

February 2005

• Health council takes on fiscal, professional concerns

January 2005

• Dieticians educate patients and staff on health issues
• Making Strides volunteers set a record

December 2004

• Union course targets germ-stopping strategies
• You need to speak out to prevent suicide

November 2004

• Union lawsuit wins $29M for overcharged consumers
• Hospital employees reimbursed for training
• School psychologist leaders stay in touch

October 2004

• Turning cancer into a teachable moment
• Behind-the-scenes efforts propel the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks

September 2004

• Retiree is co-founder of breast cancer advocacy group
• Group rolls to Canada to buy prescription drugs
• Governor's veto ax falls hard on education, health care

June 16, 2004

• Defibrillator law makes a difference
• Art teacher deals with exposure to toxics
• UFT helps Bronx teacher through medical crisis

June 2, 2004

• Psychologists relate the pain of 'so many Timothys'
• NYU union presses laboratory safety probe
• Save these dates to fight breast cancer
• Workshops offer credit for health care workers
• Social Services: Waiting for the helpless feeling to pass

May 19, 2004

• Nurses' 'vital signs' stress patient safety
• Unionists lobby for health care improvements
• Hazardous waste looms beneath campus life
• President's Perspective: Nurses stand up for patient safety

May 5, 2004

• Health-care professionals getting involved
• Health council examines RN education

April 21, 2004

• New York looks at tougher requirements for RNs
• Health-care union rally ready to roll
• Rochester pitches in to save school nurses
• School nurses administer advocacy, too

April 7, 2004

• Health Care Professionals Member of the Year JoAnn Walsh
• Saving lives, the union way
• Nursing shortage plagues state
• Raising money to curb AIDS
• Offering help with the worries of elective surgery
• Visit nysut.org/ra2004 for more reports on Representative Assembly 2004.

March 24, 2004

• Shocking chemical overexposure in a university lab
• The truth about the new Medicare law
• A temporary reprieve for city school nurses
• Lutheran hospital nurses show gains
• Psychologists respond to post-9/11 trauma
• NYSUT activists take to the Capitol
• RA delegates poised to craft union policy

February 25, 2004

It could have been a Columbine
Hero educators stop a shooter

• Tested by fire, a school safety plan works
• School psychologist organizes response team
• President Hobart: Profiles in courage at Columbia High
• 'Our children live, thanks to you'

February 11, 2004

• Union nurses keep watch over practices
• Are you insured if you become disabled?

January 28, 2004

• Visiting nurses vie for funds
• Tell your congressional reps to restore Medicare's promise
• Faculty union insists on safe mold cleanup
• Nursing fellowships available

January 14, 2004

• The fight over Medicare overhaul continues
• Medicare debate raises profile of retiree alliance
• Drug patents struck down in class-action suit
• Seven days without teasing
• ETP offers bully prevention course
• Cortese honored for 'Making Strides' efforts

December 3, 2003

• Six rescues credited to union-backed defibrillator law
• Medicare drug plan: A bitter pill to swallow
• Nurses' Saturday night out - on the picket line
• School psychologist wins national honor
• Union raises nearly $600,000 for cancer cure
• Nurses answer call to political action
• Numbers demonstrate the nursing shortage

November 19, 2003

• Collaboration helps NYS Psychological Association's early careerists

November 5, 2003

• Stepping up to fight breast cancer

October 22, 2003

• Coping with food allergies
• AFT helps African teachers fight AIDS
• PRESIDENT HOBART: The children's faces stay with me
• Hundreds of NYSUT members join fund-raising walks to beat breast cancer
• Walking an extra mile for a good cause
• How to talk to kids about cancer

October 8, 2003

• Why AFT President Feldman is joining NYSUT in the fight against breast cancer
• Persistence saved South Colonie teacher's life
• Demographics drive nursing shortage
• Court rules NY unions can sue health insurer
• Take a stroll - Join us Oct. 19
• UFTers practice biohazard scenarios

September 24, 2003

• Coping with cancer: school psychologist learns about 'community''
• Join the breast cancer fight

September 10, 2003

• NYSUT lobbies to prevent violence in 4th most dangerous profession
• Feldman to lead union walk for breast cancer
• Rowing therapy thrills retired teacher
• Angry retiree arrested seeking Rx for bill
• Bill calls for childhood obesity prevention programs
• Labor unions plan 'heartfelt' walk Sept. 20
• Deadlines loom for Sept. 11 health claims

Archive: 2002-2003

June 2003
Examining education angle on nurse shortage
Medicine men mentor nursing students
A better way to staff hospital pharmacies
Stop the Medicare prescription drug plan steamroller
Ovarian cancer walks slated for September
Education nestles in the nurse's office

May 2003
Where the classroom intersects with the bioterrorism threat
Save these dates to make strides against breast cancer
Workers' perspective voiced for health care
Tearing up prescriptions for health care disaster
Colleague needs bone marrow transplant
How to talk with children about war

April 2003
Sudden collapse, amazing rescue
Jordan says schools need holistic approach
Raising AIDS awareness
War heightens vaccination program awareness

March 2003
Trauma detection training begins this week
Newark Valley local pushes for traffic safety
Nurses staffing bill introduced
Classroom health is nothing to sneeze at
Nursing paradox vexes CC leaders
New BOCES program helps school psychologists

February 2003
A day in the life of a hospital nurse
Health care cuts are dangerous, union warns
Threatened EPIC prescription program is a boon to seniors
Bills target mandatory OT for nurses

January 2003
Union offers ideas on controlling drug costs
Protecting staff who administer smallpox inoculations
Psychologists gain scope-of-practice law
Seeking Health Care Professional of the Year
A heartfelt gift
A young life saved by a school defibrillator
Nurses support student success
Looking for info on insurer lawsuit

December 2002
Union sues health-care provider on behalf of members
Defibrillator saves a life as law takes effect

November 2002
Union makes great strides in fighting breast cancer
Nurse-patient ratios affect patient mortality
President prescribes more affordable medicine
Making strides in battle to beat breast cancer
Union consolidates efforts for health-care workers

October 2002
Ailments persist at schools near WTC site
Safety is top concern of union
Funding for healthier schools is goal of senator and union
A union win for nurses in Burlington, Vermont
BOCES teacher works at Syracuse hospitals
What you should know about risk factors for cancer
Join NYSUT in the fight against breast cancer

September 2002
NYSUT joins suit to encourage competition in prescription drug field
Breast cancer survivors ask each other, 'How long?'
Breast cancer makes Brewster SRP 'try new things'
Walk the walk: supporting the fight against breast cancer
CD helps students cope after terror attacks

April 2002
Governor signs 'whistle-blower' law

March 2002
Whistle-blower win for workers and patients
NYSUT makes heart-felt case for defibrillator bill to become law
Unions help boy needing transplant
Seeking health-educator comments

February 2002
Unionist urges attention to nursing shortage
Regents weigh in on forced overtime for nurses

December 2001
One teacher's goal: in every school, a device to save lives
Union members respond to plane crash
NYSPA responds with bilingual mental health professionals

November 2001
Teacher, student blame odd mail for burns
Health and safety chairwoman gains rapport with workers
Union monitors health, safety of reopened schools
School secretaries worry about terror war's front lines
Bill addresses foot-dragging on generic drugs
NYSUT a strong presence in fight against breast cancer

October 2001
Help for schools' 'quiet heroes'
Work together to contain health-insurance costs
Answering your health care questions
Union monitors health concerns as college reopens
Ground Zero: Nurses prepared for the worst