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    Employment background checks

    HM2VikingRN replied to rachelpach's topic in General Nursing

    I would leave it off. It was less than 30 days.... I don't think that it is necessarily a good thing to divulge for the simple reason that it can make you look defensive and not trustable when...
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    Mass Exodus from ED

    HM2VikingRN replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

    Organize organize organize.... I think this hospital needs a dose of real shared
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    Doing a paper on HPV..need help

    HM2VikingRN replied to wanttofly94's topic in General Nursing

    Whenever we talk about sex it brings out denial. I tend to come out on the side of comprehensive sexual education. Or as Bud Mellom put it so eloquently in family life (ca. 1978): "Knowledge breeds...
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    Clock out by 8am or get reprimanded!!!

    HM2VikingRN replied to RnM21's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Indentured servitude by any other name is still indentured servitude. There are managers who will suck you dry at every opportunity and then claim poor performance when you are continually given...
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    Clock out by 8am or get reprimanded!!!

    HM2VikingRN replied to RnM21's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think its time to start an organizing campaign with CNA. To me working off the clock gives the hospital an opportunity to disavow your actions in the event of an adverse event leaving you swinging...
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    INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    HM2VikingRN replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    If you have concerns about imperfections in the minimum staffing law feel free to write your legislator to ask for changes. (Arguably the professional coore nursing values expects nurses to take that...
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    Canada's health system is as good or better than the US new research suggests

    HM2VikingRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Small class sizes are positively correlated with increased student achievement. (See American Teacher May/June 2008 p. 7) It is not the only answer but it is a big piece of the puzzle. Others...
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    INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    HM2VikingRN replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    MNA is now working to get a ratio law passed to extend the protections won through bargaining to all nurses and their patients by law. MNA fought to get a no mandatory OT law passed in order to...
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    Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    HM2VikingRN replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Without the efforts of the human capital no jobs or businesses can be sustained. In other words the people who do the work are the greatest resource of any
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    Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    HM2VikingRN replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The tax cuts are being paid for with borrowed money which reduces money available for productive investment...................... http://www.cbpp.org/2-4-08tax-f1.jpg...
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    Vitamin K administration legal/ethical nightmare!

    HM2VikingRN replied to IndigoCarmine's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I remember my OB instructor (CNM) sharing in clinical how traumatized the department was after they lost a baby after the parents refused vit k. The lesson I took from that was just how important good...
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    interview at madigan next week

    HM2VikingRN replied to lhsouthern's topic in General Nursing

    Why are you interested in working here? Importance of supporting the soldiers chain of command. Be aware that you care for the soldier but can also care for dependents and retirees. I would emphasize...
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    How to solve the shortage of new grad jobs?

    HM2VikingRN replied to BonnieSc's topic in General Nursing

    Try the VA. I know that they have excellent BSN preceptor new grad programs. The average age of an RN in the US is 48. As a mew grad I have had 2 very attractive offers. Now its just winnowing my...
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    Co-Workers Read My Medical Files

    HM2VikingRN replied to nurse7272's topic in General Nursing

    I'd report this incident to the BON. I would also look at reporting the incident to whichever state agency monitors the hospital for licensure
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    Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    HM2VikingRN replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    a union by any other name is still a union. a group of people who voluntarily associate to improve their economic/professional conditions through advocacy is a union by another name. sinclair lewis...
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    Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    HM2VikingRN replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    the bush taxcuts offered virtually no help to the middle class. (and when you factor in cuts to middle class programs such as college financial aid a case can be made that in fact his policies have...
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    Reasons Why YOU Won't Join A Union

    HM2VikingRN replied to SBinGA's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    all work that makes a contribution to the community has dignity and is not degrading. but, unfortunately, many jobs are degraded. a degraded job is one that pays too little — one-quarter of all jobs...
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    INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    HM2VikingRN replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Here is the other moral argument for a strong labor movement: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/06/b99064.html What struck me most about this article was the idea that without a strong...
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    INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    HM2VikingRN replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/publications/general/neither-free-nor-fair.html Bottom line is that there should be equal time for both sides in an organizing campaign. I am glad that the Texas...
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    Was that legal?

    HM2VikingRN replied to UM Review RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It is a very clear form of intimidation. It is a classic union busting
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    INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    HM2VikingRN replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    clear description of management intimidation and interference with association rights for collective bargaining at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajljevcsxew the employee free choice act levels the...
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    INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    HM2VikingRN replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Every member a steward Every member an organizer I do believe that in the long run of history that the arc bends towards justice (with apologies to MLK). I don't necessarily think that all Texas...
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    will anyone ever hire me

    HM2VikingRN replied to isadoragag's topic in General Nursing

    I had one other thought. It is an instructors job to teach. If there was a coordination problem he/she definitely had the option to sit down with you and work out the kinks or schedule an extra...
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    I Got The Job!!

    HM2VikingRN replied to TRINI_RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Good 4
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    INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    HM2VikingRN replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I have no problem with fair share members who pay only for the costs associated with negotiations incurred by the union and choose not to be full members. I do have a problem with people who don't...