VivaLasViejas ASN, RN

LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych

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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Insurance companies have no business in healthcare whatsoever,
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well, as I said before, I don't care for Michael Moore or his politics, but healthcare is a subject near and dear to my heart, and watching this particular movie would make me mad enough to spit...
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    Has being a nurse made you tougher in other aspects of life?

    VivaLasViejas replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Me neither. That's kind of like taking candy from a baby............and with a few exceptions, most of them work too bloody hard and get paid far too little for the amount of crap they catch each
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    Hours getting cut

    VivaLasViejas replied to evilolive's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Yeah, me
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    Has being a nurse made you tougher in other aspects of life?

    VivaLasViejas replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!
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    Signed State DNR form no good????

    VivaLasViejas replied to llltapp's topic in Emergency

    Well, my doctor didn't much like doing it, but I bullied him into signing a DNR order for me at my last visit. He said, "You're too young to have a DNR." I said, "You and I both know what happens...
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I've never seen the movie. I don't want to. And I don't need to in order to be disgusted with our "system"..........that's been going on for a LONG
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    Has being a nurse made you tougher in other aspects of life?

    VivaLasViejas replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I'm definitely not the mouseburger I was before I became a nurse. But then, I'm older now too, and I just don't care as much about what people "might" think of me when I protest bad service,...
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sheesh........sorry, I forgot that some people don't know sarcasm when they see it. Mea
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I know.......it's illogical to me too, and I live here!!
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It's a loaded phrase here, talaxandra........in post-G.W. Bush America, "socialized" programs are believed to be a product of liberalism, which is equated with socialism, which is considered to be on...
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    Uniform Cleanliness

    VivaLasViejas replied to Michyboo39's topic in Correctional

    No adult should have to be 'sent home' as if they were an errant grade-schooler. But then, no adult worthy of the name would come to work in dirty clothes in the first
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    sensitive person here, and re-entering nursing, how to grow a thick skin

    VivaLasViejas replied to thekid's topic in General Nursing

    The thing to remember is that unless the critical/demanding/whiny/petty/PITA patient knows you personally and holds a grudge of some kind, he or she isn't really aiming his/her displeasure at YOU. To...
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes, well, that's logical to your way of thinking, but logic isn't part of the argument against UHC. Otherwise, who would fight to keep a system that costs more money, creates more work for nurses and...
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    who is not allowing them to access basic health services? i don't know about your part of the country, but where i live, you don't get in to see your pcp without either presenting an insurance card or...
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Who says we wouldn't continue to pay for our health services if we had UHC? And who's talking about covering illegal immigrants? I specifically stated that American CITIZENS should be able to access...
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    Hours getting cut

    VivaLasViejas replied to evilolive's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    ITA with the above. I've worked both sides of the management desk in LTC, and I know that if the facility isn't making money, MY job is in danger. At my current workplace, we just lost our weekend...
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    should patients be able to choose to end their life if they are in pain and dying

    VivaLasViejas replied to melz34's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Oregon, and before I became a nurse---back when the assisted suicide law was being considered---I was completely against the Death With Dignity Act. Not only did I believe that God alone has...
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A FEW "underinsured"?? What of the 47 million Americans without any insurance at all? Again: Health insurance is NOT health care---that's where we "underinsured" come in, because even though we pay...
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I've never seen "Sicko", because I don't like Michael Moore and have no use for his radical bombastics. However, I've been speaking out in favor of UHC for over 20 years, having been uninsured AND...
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    I am watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" for the first time....

    VivaLasViejas replied to Valerie Salva's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm fairly conservative politically, but in this one area I am unabashedly in favor of abolishing our current patchwork "system" of healthcare and allowing government to collect the funds for...
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    How do YOU relieve stress?

    VivaLasViejas replied to jellybean321's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I go to the source of the stress and punch its lights out. LOL Actually, I do several different things to decompress, one of the best being working in the yard. Digging, hoeing, raking, and making...
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    Brain farts

    VivaLasViejas replied to linda2097's topic in General Nursing

    Forgot to inflate the balloon after inserting a Foley. I was still a student, but I'd done a number of catheter insertions, so the nurses let me put one in this 400+lb. female with, um, challenging...
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    The "Weigh" Out---A Food Management Support Thread

    VivaLasViejas replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Health, Stress Management

    So, what do y'all
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    The "Weigh" Out---A Food Management Support Thread

    VivaLasViejas replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Health, Stress Management

    That is a GREAT idea, truern!! If it can work with AA members---and I know it does---there is no reason it can't work with us compulsive