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I am calling upon all my fellow nurses to get out and vote for our next leaders. Take a friend with you take a neigbour take a fellow nurse. Lets have a say in our future.

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Specializes in NICU.

Taking a friend and/or neighbor is fine, just make sure they're making an informed vote.

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Thanks for the clarification.

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I think everyone knows which direction I think we need to go next year...

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thats my prayer. I dont wanna assume anything

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I think everyone knows which direction I think we need to go next year...

Certainly not for that woman that has been boss before.

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Certainly not for that woman that has been boss before.

:w00t:

steph:smokin:

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Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
I am calling upon all my fellow nurses to get out and vote for our next leaders. Take a friend with you take a neigbour take a fellow nurse. Lets have a say in our future.

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And if you have a van, take more, and educate them (with facts from reliable sources) along the way. This coming year's election is pivotal!

Many people haven't exercised their franchise to vote, due to lack of belief in "the system", and with good cause............. So as many of you as can, volunteer at your polling place, and try to get in on the counting of the votes, if you know how to get there. I don't know how, and would appreciate knowing, if you do.

There's no sense in the whole thing, if it's "fixed".......:uhoh3:

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Specializes in orthopedics, ED observation.

Did I miss something? Local elections were last month, national next year. What I am missing?

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Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
Certainly not for that woman that has been boss before.

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Boss of what, and if you're talking about Hillary Clinton, please tell me what you are looking for in a Presidential candidate. Or is it anyone who isn't a "boss" woman. She's not afraid of being criticized for it, and wrote a great book ("It takes a Village") about the way community is the most important sociological concept whose practise is desperately needed by all of us for economic and social reasons, since many of us are geographically far from our original families.

I'm interested in someone who isn't afraid to get behind new ways of accomplishing what until now, has been a debache (healthcare). Government pays for healthcare when "single payer" plans are implemented, but only medical, nursing, social worker, and finance people decide the amounts allocated.

No one cares about anyone else's problems, unless they are impacted - like homeless people who are mostly simple schitz's without a hospital, and end up being killed. If we concern ourselves more with preventing illness from progressing to its more deadly/costly stages, money and humanity will be saved.

I know we're used to looking at things from doctors' viewpoints regarding patient treatment, but please don't let their greed guide you.

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Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
Did I miss something? Local elections were last month, national next year. What I am missing?

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It's never too early to prepare for what will be the most important election of our time. We need to be discussing the issues:

(1)war, with it's scourge of young people's death and disabilities that will need care for the rest of injured, dismembered soldiers' lives.

(2)Healthcare costs that are way out of control, with large segments of the population unable financially to access care early enough to avoid complications and death,

(3)a political machine interested only in their own financial gain,

(4)disparity in delivery of education and healthcare which results in literary, mathematical, scientific and nutritional deficits which affect the capability of future workers and leadership of this country. Priorities need to be developed at an early age.

(5)The potential of future citizens and children to influence planetary concerns that will shorten the lifespan of this planet, and make decisions based on the educated opinions of many aspects of industry affecting waste disposal of fossil fuels. We need to use our money to purchase products that are made in planet friendly countries. The coal mines in China and India affect the ozone and create other harmful fumes, use lead in painted products without concern for our children, even though it's prohibited.

(6) Many of us have allergies that heretofore were much fewer and less serious, and the incidence of MS has doubled in just a few years, yet research monies are awarded pharmaceutical companies that "double dip" by charging outrageous prices for new medications, due to their "research costs". Whatever happened to grants going to Institutes for Research with great scientists? Did they all reach for the candy/money offered by the tony/elegant surroundings of the pharmaceutical companies, with many other perks. Certainly the medicinal treatment by doctors has been bought with expensive pens, free meals, office decorations and message pads.

Psychologists know that gifting people wins their loyalty, and the Chinese have used that for milleniums. When I was in that country I was flabergasted by all the gifts tourists receive from the guides in each part of that place (mostly junk, but "it's the thought", right?). I can't say I wasn't influenced by it, I spent plenty there, for things I'd never have bought, without if I hadn't been there - even knowing that the deplorable work conditions of the creators of handicarafts I wanted, would not be improved by my purchase.

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Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
Did I miss something? Local elections were last month, national next year. What I am missing?

__________________________________________________________

It's never too early to prepare for what will be the most important election of our time. We need to be discussing the issues:

(1)war, with it's scourge of young people's death and disabilities that will need care for the rest of injured, dismembered soldiers' lives. Is our freedom and enjoyment of life as we know it, really endangered by Irag's raging animosity toward factions that have always been in that country? Which candidate will get us out of there, preserving American lives that could be lost if we stay.

(2)Healthcare costs that are way out of control, with large segments of the population unable financially to access care early enough to avoid complications and death. Which candidate has a worthwhile plan for changing that?

(3) a political machine interested only in their own financial gain, without caring about the loss of Americans' lives and quality of life.

(4)disparity in delivery of education and healthcare which results in literary, mathematical, scientific and nutritional deficits which affect the capability of future workers and leadership of this country. Priorities need to be developed at an early age. Which candidate will raise the status of teachers by improving their economic conditions.

(5)The potential of future citizens and children to influence planetary concerns that will shorten the lifespan of this planet, and make decisions based on the educated opinions of many aspects of industry affecting waste disposal of fossil fuels. We need to use our money to purchase products that are made in planet friendly countries. The coal mines in China and India affect the ozone and create other harmful fumes, use lead in painted products without concern for our children, even though it's prohibited.

(6) Many of us have allergies that heretofore were much fewer and less serious, and the incidence of MS has doubled in just a few years, yet research monies are awarded pharmaceutical companies that "double dip" by charging outrageous prices for new medications, due to their "research costs". Whatever happened to grants going to Institutes for Research (that don't profit from which product is most useful), with great scientists? Salk discovered polio vaccine in a place like that. Did they all reach for the candy/money offered by the tony/elegant surroundings of the pharmaceutical companies, with many other perks. Certainly the medicinal treatment by doctors has been bought with expensive pens, free meals, office decorations and message pads.

Psychologists know that gifting people wins their loyalty, and the Chinese have used that for milleniums. When I was in that country I was flabergasted by all the gifts tourists receive from the guides in each part of that place (mostly junk, but "it's the thought", right?). I can't say I wasn't influenced by it, I spent plenty there, for things I'd never have bought, if I hadn't been there - even knowing that the deplorable work conditions of the creators of handicarafts I wanted, would not be improved by my purchase. However, it might have kept them employed.

Please use this next year to hold meetings with representatives of both sides of issues, and evaluate the sense of responsibility they exude, for actually carrying out their campaign promises. If you remember former campaign promises that weren't actualized, ask the political party representative of that promise, what happened.............

Power exists only when it is earned, and the power of our vote expands when we involve others in our search for better government!:uhoh21:

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