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  1. Health Reform is the Most Important Domestic Policy Issue

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    ” …We don't have universal health care in this country because powerful corporations who profit from health care beat us. The pharmaceutical companies stole our tax money when they successfully...

  2. Fiduciary duty of health insurance corporations

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Is a corporations fiduciary duty to make a profit more important that a duty to provide the goods and/or services customers pay for? What if those "customers" are sick patients? One case in which...

  3. Fiduciary duty of health insurance corporations

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    That is great. Maybe my friend would have been "found" but i think her doctor should have told

  4. Fiduciary duty of health insurance corporations

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am glad you are doing this. Do you do case finding too? Like if there is a nrely diagnosed person are you

  5. The crowd was there to show support for SB 840

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    State Sen. Sheila Kuehl addresses over 2,000 nurses, school employees, community activists, and patients at a CNA/NNOC sponsored healthcare rally on May 8th in Sacramento, CA on the Capitol steps. The...

  6. Fiduciary duty of health insurance corporations

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I know that was the promise of managed care. I think many people don't know how to access the care they need. A college professor friend was diagnosed with type II diabetes. She cried when she showed...

  7. Law requires insurance companies to make profit.

    pickledpepperRN replied to RedZeppelinRN's topic in General Nursing

    This forum has many threads discussing this topic:

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

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am. I don't know which theater yet. If my rep doesn't ask I'll go with DH to the nearest theater on Friday. And with DD and her friend on Saturday, my sisters on

  9. The crowd was there to show support for SB 840

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I work with nurses from every continent except Antarctica, including Britian, and they are not parasites. They are caring for our patients. If I'm upset my friends from London, Cornwall, Liverpoole,...

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

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Healthcare providers to attend “SiCKO” premiere

  11. The Ant & The Grasshopper....Then & Now....

    pickledpepperRN replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    A third possibility: The ant goes to the grasshopper one chilly fall day and says, "You know, I've got way more than enough to get us both through the winter. Here's your share. You can play your...

  12. Losing patients - does it get easier?

    pickledpepperRN replied to future L&Dnurse's topic in Oncology

    My brother in law was overseas on vacation when he became ill. He remembers waking up, a nurse touched his shoulder, smiled, and said words he didn't understand. He was so reassured by her kind tone...

  13. telemetry monitoring ratio

    pickledpepperRN replied to choirgurl67's topic in Cardiac

    Thank

  14. telemetry monitoring ratio

    pickledpepperRN replied to choirgurl67's topic in Cardiac

    How does the RN responsible for the patient observe the

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

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think there is only one issue, the health of ourselves and fellow Americans. How are WE going to create a healthcare

  16. The crowd was there to show support for SB 840

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    California Universal Healthcare Act SB 840 (Kuehl), the California Health Insurance Reliability Act, (CHIRA), would provide a single standard of quality health care to all Californians on a fiscally...

  17. U.S. Health Care System 'Slowly Bankrupting Us,'

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The more than a billion dollar$ worth to one man in addition to his salary comes from health insurance premiums. Money people paid for health insurance. Money they paid for healthcare. Mr. McQuire...

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

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I cannot assess a patient I have not seen. How can I have a valid opinion of a film if I haven't seen it? I think nurses need to speak up about how to improve healthcare. It is certainly not necessary...

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

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Uninsured, national — 46.8 million (15.9% of the population), 2005, up from 45.3 million in 2004. http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/007419.html Lack of health...

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

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Most advanced western countries are not communist. People voted for their health system. What we have now is not acceptable. We can and someday will do better. I will do my part to help that someday...

  21. U.S. Health Care System 'Slowly Bankrupting Us,'

    pickledpepperRN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have suffered delays, denials, looooooong waits, pain, and preventable disability because of the policies of my health insurance company. Here is another nurses' opinion: Single-Payer Universal...

  22. patient nurse ratio 4:1 in California next year?

    pickledpepperRN replied to ddsd's topic in California Nursing

    Was the hospital in California? The ratio law is only in the state of California for now. I don't this Georgia has nurse to patient ratios (yet). There are states where nurses are lobbying for a ratio...

  23. Nursing 10 years ago

    pickledpepperRN replied to kauffman's topic in General Nursing

    Those computer interpretations are sometimes wrong. Best to have a competent experienced human being look at the EKG and the patient. Analysis and synthesis of data is key to knowing what...

  24. Nurses Who Are Drug Addicts

    pickledpepperRN replied to jill48's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I was asked to orient a nurse who had been terminated from another hospital for taking Vicodin. Her union representative had encouraged her to participate in the BRN diversion...

  25. patient nurse ratio 4:1 in California next year?

    pickledpepperRN replied to ddsd's topic in California Nursing

    I remember the example of a specialty unit was an oncology unit. From the regulations: Statement of reasons: