postaledde

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1. JUST SAY NO TO MNM

   postaledde replied to buck227's topic in General Nursing

   ok, Buck so your ready to give up nursing.Your going to be replaced by a PCT (patient care technician) at less than half the rate and about 1/3 of the knowledge.You obviously work in a hospital setting and have the mentality of an ostrich.You have yo...

2. JUST SAY NO TO MNM

   postaledde replied to buck227's topic in General Nursing

   Let's look at the math and the current way things are being done.A hospital or nursing home complains that they don't have enough money to give anyone a raise or hire more staff.However,they use agency nurses to fill the holes 40 hours a week.Ok, the...

3. For Profit Healthcare - Is it working?

   postaledde replied to reg06's topic in General Nursing

   Universal healthcare is a dream! Unfortunately it doesn't work!! Take a real hard look at the healthcare sytems around the world. Who do you want deciding wheather a particular treatment is necessary?? Who do you want deciding how long you can wait b...

4. Million Nurse March

   postaledde posted a topic in General Nursing

   We need to have a March!!! We need to be Marching everywhere.. Everyone keeps talking about joining our state nurses organizations. Let's look at he history of these organizations.Over the last ten (10) years they haven't done anything for the nurses...

5. Nursing is pathetic...

   postaledde replied to [email protected]'s topic in Career Support

   in Florida the pay is only 15-24 unless you work for an agency!

6. Calif Nurses Assoc. ??

   postaledde replied to MissCheevusRN's topic in General Nursing

   When you think about joining a union look at thier history of doing the things that you stand for. Here is a little tidbit copied from the MNA.Ninety-three percent (93%) of the nation's registered nurses do not belong to ANA, yet ANA claims to be the...

7. MDS-RNAC...HELLO?

   postaledde replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric

   Here is a little tidbit copied from the MNA. ThNinety-three percent (93%) of the nation's registered nurses do not belong to ANA, yet ANA claims to be the voice of the entire nursing profession. Last month Dr. Peter Bearhaus, a nurse researcher at Va...

8. MDS-RNAC...HELLO?

   postaledde replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric

   Well JeennyP Your comment is right. The nurses associations are being run by administrative types for administrative types.With all of the hours I work and trying to raise my three kids I don't have time to put forth effort twords my nursing organniz...

9. MDS-RNAC...HELLO?

   postaledde replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric

   As for your comment about joining your state nurses associations I have a few comments. Our state nurses associations continue to take our dues and appear to be pro management. They are not working twords fixing the problems that have been around for...

10. What can nurses really do to help our dying profession?

    postaledde replied to Blue11RN's topic in General Nursing

    I think all of the people on this bulletin board that continue to degrade each other about the formal education each has recieved are spending way too much energy in dividing Rn's as a group.I 1/2 of this energy was used to change the way thing are, ...

11. What can nurses really do to help our dying profession?

    postaledde replied to Blue11RN's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to save the nursing profession go to WWW.MillionNurseMarch.org

12. MDS-RNAC...HELLO?

    postaledde replied to ktwlpn's topic in Geriatric

    The trend across the country seems to be that nurses are slowly being pushed in to management.We are being replaced on the floor by PCT's. (patient Care Tech's)We are being forced to be responsible for understaffed and under trained individuals on th...