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Community leaders are getting involved n a contract dispute between nurses and Steward Holy Family Hospital at Merrimack Valley in Haverhill, Mass.

Nurses at Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, N.J., have ratified a new four-year contract that addresses wages and benefits.

Registered nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital and Regional Medical Center, both in San Jose, Calif., have reached a tentative agreement with hospital administrators on a new contract, the California Nurses Association said.

Nurses at Nathan Littauer Hospital in Gloversville, Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown and St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica voted to authorize a strike Sept. 1, according to the New York State Nurses Association.

Nurse bullying is an unfortunate reality in the healthcare industry — 48 percent of graduating nurses expect to experience bullying at some point in their careers, according to statistics from American Sentinel University — and it falls on nurse leaders…

Registered nurses at Southern California Hospital at Culver City (Calif.) have ratified a new contract agreement with management, California Nurses Association said last week.

Registered nurses at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister, Calif., are scheduled to strike for one day beginning at 6 a.m. Aug. 24, the California Nurses Association said.

The union representing nurses at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, Calif., has reached a tentative agreement with the hospital for the nurses' first-ever contract, according to a Vallejo Times-Herald report.

Recent nursing graduates in California are waiting months to receive their license to practice, according to a California Healthline report.

Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Fla., has entered an agreement with Aegis Health Group to evaluate the system's employer-directed population health strategy.