Ludlow

Ludlow

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  1. An RN's thoughts on the health care law

    tntrn, most responsible people want to pay their way. You have safe water to drink, electricity that comes into your house, roads that get you from your home to work and play, a safe community to live in protected by police and fire fighters. Every w...
  2. An RN's thoughts on the health care law

    tntrn, On second look I see you might be talking about the tax on insurance plans if they cost more than $10,200/yr per single or 27,500/yr per family. I agree there, that sucks and is a stupid way to get revenue. It was a concession to republicans. ...
  3. An RN's thoughts on the health care law

    tntrn, what are the 'higher taxes' you're refering to? If you have insurance and like it you can keep it. If you refuse to get insurance, you will be fined. The fine was described by Justice John Roberts as a tax. Most taxes are added to things we bu...
  4. New national nurses union forms

    I think National Nurses United is a great idea! Nurses across the country see how smart it is to have nurse to patient ratios that are based on nursing judgement not the hospital's bottom line. I work in CA and have had so many travelers tell me that...
  5. An RN's thoughts on the health care law

    Thanks for this clear explanation of where we're at in the health care coverage world. The sooner we get to Medicare for All the happier I'll be.
  6. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Reality is that in order to push for laws that prohibit bad practices, you have to be organized and united; like a union. I know people who say, "I have my voice, one voice. I speak out and get what I need. I don't want and don't need a union like CN...
  7. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    In the case of striking for better, safer patient care, when you cross the picket line you make the statement that you are endorsing the hospital's unsafe staffing and unsafe patient conditions. Not a good place to be for a patient advocate.
  8. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    we now face national hospital chains and multinational corporations. we still need the strength of the many to protect standards.
  9. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    I appreciate your history and struggle, Lynnie. Thanks for putting it out there. I would just like to remind us all that we have overtime pay and vacation pay and the concept of a weekend and health insurance benefits and retirement benefits and no ...
  10. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Dragging out and delaying a first contract is bad faith bargaining. It's illegal. Hospitals do it all the time. In doing so they are just showing their true colors. They are not on our side or even on the side of our patients. They are on their share...
  11. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    In the ICU we've had the mandated ratios of at least 2 patients:1nurse since the 1970s in California. Yet I have often just had one patient and at times I have cared for one patient who needed 2 nurses. Ratios are the floor and we staff richer if pat...
  12. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Nothing in the California ratios is meant to limit it to the specified number, richer staffing is meant to happen if the patient's care needs dictate it. Now, say, if in the ICU the ratios varied by one patient, that would be a big deal. And a big pr...
  13. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    More unions = safer working conditions and safer patients. The Massey mine disaster and the BP oil vulcano-spewing-oil-into-the-Gulf-of-Mexico disaster (both needlessly killing workers) are the results of fewer workers having the power that a union ...
  14. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    That's absolutely fabulous!
  15. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    I don't EVER want to work at a non-union hospital again. Glad for my contract. Glad for my protections. Glad for my benefits and pay.