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RNs Denounce Sham Election in Nine Ohio Hospitals, Hospital Chain Seeks to Impose Hand-Picked Union The nation's largest organization of registered nurses today denounced what it called undemocratic sham union elections scheduled this week at nine h...

I once worked at a wonderful Catholic hospital. I gave my resignation notice when Tenet was buying our hospital. Soon SEIU did the same thing. Only a couple of my former colleagues even voted. They voted "yes" because of a promised pay increased. No...

CHP has adopted a strategy to silence RNs and deny you a democratic choice. CHP has signed an illegal back room deal with the Service Employees Union (SEIU) intended to force RNs into this non-RN union. The elections scheduled for March 12-14 will ...

Many nurses in California worked very hard to defeat the plan that did not offer an alternative to insurance companies.

I too am an expert professional. I've been a CCRN for more than 20 years. I precept new nurses and teach ACLS, IABP, CRRT, and most important patient advocacy. I help them understand that no software program can substitute for the professional judgme...

I fail to understand how paying for one man to make more than $120 million in one year is cost effective. What am I missing? HOW can the profit motive work so very well? Good luck with the "Blues" if you actually suffer a disabling expensive illness....

How about letting people choose to buy into Medicare at any age? It already covers those over 65 years old and the disabled. Why not let people choose what plan they want including Medicare? At the same cost seniors pay for it? We could choose Part "...

It is frightening that a janitor who was once a medic could start an IV. We need current competency. We need a better plan.

I think rather than health insurance vouchers it would be better to have health care vouchers to pay the provider. The clinic, hospital, or independent practitioner. The details would have to be worked out in terms of need. I just had my physical so ...

I think all Americans should have healthcare. To me it is a fullfillment of our first document. Necessary for the inalienable right to life. Once we agree to this we can haggle about the details.

It is not necessary to join a union or to donate to help in getting a ratio law. We are very happy to have supporters write letters, make phone calls, talk with their friendss and neighbors, or attend a rally. It takes a majority of the people suppor...

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Decades ago we had a patient whose skin was blue after surviving human experimentation in a nazi concentration camp.

MediCal, our states Medicaid, was once available to the poor whether employed or unemployed. Now it is ONLY for children and their legal caregivers. Single employed poor adults do not qualify. People are admitted to my hospital whose insurance status...

No matter where it is not possible to provide safe nursing care to an unstable patient requiring CRRT and IABP and one or more other patients. Texas, Alaska, or Rhode Island people deserve the same high standard of safe, effective, therapeutic, compa...

Grasp does use HPPD. Unfortunately like Evalysis and the other proprietary acuity systems they will not let nurses in on the conversion formula. We once labeled every patient a "2" for a week. The next week labeled them "4". We got exactly the same c...

RNs have a long and proud history of social advocacy in the best interest of individual patients, families and communities. WE proudly continue to work locally as well as nationally to fulfill our obligation to advocate for the public good. The peop...

I am not thinking theory only. How can Mississippi possibly find the money for healthcare for all? My state among many supports infrastructure, education, and other NEEDS that smaller less affluent states cannot afford. I think this is good. In the h...

You only have one license.

Unfortunately I don't think it will ever be perfect but we can do our best to make it better. And then continue to improve.

We don't yet have a ban on mandatory overtime. Most of our contracts do have language requiring that overtime must be voluntary. Our Labor Code does have excellent overtime regulations with penalties for missed breaks and 1 1/2 or double time for ove...

Are you willing to tell us the state?

Along with tens of thousands of others I worked for our comprehensive whistle blower law. The law applies to patients, families, and staff. There is a big fine for both the individual and the facility when retaliation occurs. And the presumption is t...

I tell the supervisor, "I would if I could, but I can't because I am too fatigued to provide safe care." Once she told me I had no choice. I wrote, "I told ***** that I am fatigued thererore any accident, error, or lack of complete charting is not my...

Two reasons to consider a single payer system: *Common sense budgeting. The public system sets fair reimbursements applied equally to all providers while assuring all comprehensive and appropriate health care is delivered, and uses its clout to neg...