President Rector has been in contact with several nurses’ unions in California and New York exploring various ways that have improved working conditions and patient care in their hospitals which we may consider adapting for Guam’s hospital. President Rector and our nurses in the negotiating team have proposed ways to increase recruitment and retention to be implemented in the contract. The negotiation meeting today went fairly well with both sides agreeing to new contract language and more proposals to improve working conditions for our nurses and the quality of Guam’s health care.