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  1. Frightening events during chemotherapy

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Oncology

    An oncology nurse friend told me a patient can seem fine, walking and talking yet die in the first twenty minutes of chemotherapy infusion. Can someone tell me more? Has it happened to your patient?...

  2. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    David Felix: 'Sicko' economics ...Goodman rejects single payer universal coverage health systems, which Moore favors, because they require bureaucratic rationing of medical care, and impose longer...

  3. Canada's health system is as good or better than the US new research suggests

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Health minister rebuffs doctors' call for two-tier health care Health Minister Tony Clement has rebuffed the Canadian Medical Association in its call for greater privatization of medicare. Clement...

  4. Canada's health system is as good or better than the US new research suggests

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Naomi Lakritz, Calgary Herald It's been said that during the 12 or so years they spend in medical school, doctors learn to think of themselves as gods. Well, the gods must be crazy. Or greedy. Or...

  5. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I will see this film. I will also continue to pay my income tax. If it is true that he encourages people not to pay their taxes It will be hard for me to take him seriously....

  6. "Socialized medicine"

    pickledpepperRN replied to Grushenka's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Lillian Wald was the creator of Public Health nursing: http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/wald/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Wald I read that you are a pre nursing student. I hope your program...

  7. "Socialized medicine"

    pickledpepperRN replied to Grushenka's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think there is a big difference between a socialist/communist dictatorship and a democracy. Great Britian has socialized medicine controlled by the voters. Not my first choice but certainly as free...

  8. We don't need over-priced insurance - we need Guaranteed Healthcare.

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Text of H. R. 676: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c110:./temp/~c110MSAGE3 Cosponsors:

  9. Question about striking nurses?

    pickledpepperRN replied to mommy2boys's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    In recent years the CNA strikes were for one or two days only. There is an RN "picket Captain" with a cell phone. The number was given to all managers to call if there is an unsafe situation. Then...

  10. Covering tele for a non-tele nurse

    pickledpepperRN replied to grouchy's topic in General Nursing

    If a patient has an order for continuous cardiac monitoring that patient needs a nurse who is educated and experienced in the recognition and treatment of an abnormal rhythm. I work ICU, telemetry,...

  11. If CEO's have free healthcare, then workers get free healthcare."

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    My Challenge to the Presidential Candidates The American government isn't afraid to hand out free health care. Senior citizens get it. Veterans get it. As SiCKO shows you, even the detainees at...

  12. staffing be acuity

    pickledpepperRN replied to icunurse1955's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    In California hospitals that obey the law staff by acuity with the ratio the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a nurse at any time. That includes

  13. Nurse Patient Ratios in an 8 bed CVICU

    pickledpepperRN replied to kat9114's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Ours is a mixed cardiac unit with chest pain R/O MI and post op patients. We staff the same. Our IABP patients who also need CVVHD or CRRT are 2:1 with an RN and either another RN or an LVN to assist....

  14. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Care America and Secure Horizons use a "gatekeeper". Often it is difficult to get a referral to a specialist. With regular Medicare providers are reimbursed for ordered tests and treatments. I would...

  15. Nurse offering to sell products to family member

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    A patients relative complained to me that a nurse on the day shift told her about these nutritional supplements. She offered to sell them to the relative. I know this nurse is excited about these...

  16. Nurse offering to sell products to family member

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in General Nursing

    If it is mentioned again I will ask them to talk with the manager. I really don't think she will do this again but don't know how upset the family is. None of them mentioned it to me last

  17. Healthcare vs. the profit principle

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think it is a big mistake to give up Medicare to a for profit

  18. Nurse offering to sell products to family member

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yesterday evening I went in early and talked with her. I said, "Mr. *****'s sister told me you tried to sell her *****." She said, "Well I think it would help her." I then showed her the policy...

  19. Friends in nursing you miss terribly!?

    pickledpepperRN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    We often talk about Mary LVN and Dottie, our clerk who retired the same year and moved closer to grandchildren. Larry worked as a secretary in the summers and weekends while in medical school. He and...

  20. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Michael Moore makes CNN blush After a much publicized tête-à-tête between Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, and the outspoken director of "Sicko," the network released a rare...

  21. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why should taxpayers pay an insurance company to pay the hospital or primary provider? Why not just pay the actual provider? Insurance companies do not provide any

  22. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Perhaps they would stay in business for cosmetic dentistry, botox, or such that the regular policy wouldn't cover? Maybe their employees could do something

  23. No Veto on Children's Health urged

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Bush: No Deal On Children's Health Plan ...The 10-year-old program, which is set to expire on Sept. 30, costs the federal government $5 billion a year and helps provide health coverage to 6.6 million...

  24. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.calnurse.org/

  25. Health Reform is the Most Important Domestic Policy Issue

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    After Years of Labor Gains, Autoworkers Face Losses Larry Boynton is slowly coming to a realization that would have been unthinkable for an American autoworker just a decade ago: that he will have...