Nurses around the United States are standing up for themselves

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[color=#1c1d21][color=#1c1d21]nurses around the united states are standing up for themselves and their patients, both through local labor disputes and the strengthening of a new national union. the real news looks into the new union, a labor victory in philadelphia, and a looming strike in washington, d.c.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&itemid=74&jumival=5105&updaterx=2010-05-15+00%3a11%3a04

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In my opinion, this is significant, because Canadians have a more civilized and humanitarian approach to healthcare than we do. They believe healthcare is a human right and should be provided free at the point of care, as a social service to their brothers and sisters in need of it. Most all of the nurses in Canada belong to a nurses' union, and they are a powerful collective of advocates who work to protect and improve their system of Medicare for all.

Collective social advocacy is the most morally and ethically defensible work of the truly professional RN. If all nurses in this country believed that healthcare is a human right, then their actions would be congruent with their professional values. Inherently fundamental to the discipline of nursing are the values of compassion, integrity, social justice, autonomy, human dignity and altruism.

The Canadians must think it's curious and shameful that we still have some selfish nurses in this country who align themselves with unionbusters and the for-profit health care industry. Thanks for posting this herring_RN. It's evidence that the world has us on a human rights watch.

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Who gives a rats a** what the canadians think! Look how badly they've screwed up their own healthcare system. I think its shameful to walk out on patients in a strike, so There.

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Who gives a rats a** what the canadians think! Look how badly they've screwed up their own healthcare system. I think its shameful to walk out on patients in a strike, so There.

"There's no there, there": A descriptive phrase (originally coined by Gertrude Stein) now used to convey an utter lack of substance or veracity as it pertains to the subject under discussion~Urban Dictionary

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