KevinKares

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1. Health Care Unions In California Split Over Nurse-To-Patient Ratios

   KevinKares replied to scecile's topic in Union

   Obviously the SEIU is not run by nurses. I have not heard good things about SEIU. I think they are a sellout to the hospitals. I have read about this from other nurses that have experience with them. I have read that they confer with hospital adminis...

2. Is nursing really that bad?

   KevinKares replied to Reckless96's topic in General Nursing

   Nursing will be the greatest thing you ever did! It is the most rewarding job I have ever had. In fact, I look at what other people do and wonder what possible satisfaction could they get from doing that. People do come here to vent, no doubt. My sug...

3. Can you tell me about starting a union?

   KevinKares replied to nrsjnet's topic in Union

   Don't worry! I am MAD! I gave my all to that place. I saved them from lawsuits all the time from disgruntled families by defusing the situation. I represented them in the best possible light-all of us did. I was so tired of there questionaires and Ga...

4. Can you tell me about starting a union?

   KevinKares replied to nrsjnet's topic in Union

   Nurses need to learn that they have the power. Nothing to fear but fear itself! Look at the Police, the Firemen, the teachers. Nurses are at least as important as those careers and anyone of them would agree. k

5. Can you tell me about starting a union?

   KevinKares replied to nrsjnet's topic in Union

   Hey, Laborer, I meant that it will cost them money and they won't be able to buy more hospital chains. They warn the new employees at our hospital on their orientation. they tell them" If you don't like it here then go somewhere else" and the guy who...

6. Nurses need a voice in what goes on!

   KevinKares replied to KevinKares's topic in Activism

   Check out this web site and the author's other articles. A true leader and very well versed RN. k Nursing Unions-A collective voice.

7. Nurses need a voice in what goes on!

   KevinKares posted a topic in Activism

   Who started that thing where we had to check 2 units of insulin with another nurse and sign off with another nurse and then five years later said we don't have to do that anymore? But, we can push 20mg of Cardizem IV without supervision! How come the...

8. Can you tell me about starting a union?

   KevinKares replied to nrsjnet's topic in Union

   I have personal experience in meeting with a member of the California Nurses Association. This was a few years befor the NNOC was started and I believe the AFL/CIO was joined with CNA to form the NNOC. This organizer was a former AFL/CIO organizer fo...

9. Soooo, I quit

   KevinKares replied to TX911's topic in General Nursing

   I think you did the right thing. Quitting a job is a skill. You gotta know when to go. And you dont need to tell a prospective employer that. With all the hospitals using Gallup and such and then not doing anything with the results, something has to ...