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  1. Safe Staffing Ratios for Massachusetts?

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Safe Staffing Ratios for Massachusetts? I support Massachusetts nurses 100%! http://www.massnurses.org/ http://www.massnurses.org/News/2005/07/july13press_release.htm BOSTON, Mass.--A new study of...

  2. Bush Administration Proposes Cut in Veteran Benefits

    pickledpepperRN replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Amen to

  3. Charting for behaviors

    pickledpepperRN replied to not now's topic in General Nursing

    "verbally abusive-behavior inappropriate-threatening in nature" is an assessment and subjective. A description of actions and direct quotes is

  4. Union Wins Decertification Election at Scripps, CNA Stays

    pickledpepperRN replied to Sheri257's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    When a President is in the hospital it is in all the papers. No HIPAA violation as far as i know since the White House press reported on it. I remember when I was nine President Eisenhower was in the...

  5. Bush Administration Proposes Cut in Veteran Benefits

    pickledpepperRN replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think as citizens of our country we are morally obligated to keep promises made to those who served our country for the good of all. I will be very glad to do this and would vote for my taxes to...

  6. Union Wins Decertification Election at Scripps, CNA Stays

    pickledpepperRN replied to Sheri257's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Scripps must bargain with nurses union By: California Nurses Association, Scripps Encinitas North County Times August 18, 2005 Over the past few months, Scripps Encinitas Hospital has spent more than...

  7. Teach me about the National Right to Work Committee

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I've learned in this forum about activist anti union nurses. The web sites they post have links to the National Right to Work Committee. I googled and Yahooed them and to my knowledge they are a bunch...

  8. Caught between rock and The Governator

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=98740 ...The Rolling Stones, who have managed to stay mostly apolitical for their 40-plus years in the limelight, find themselves in the...

  9. Union Wins Decertification Election at Scripps, CNA Stays

    pickledpepperRN replied to Sheri257's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.calnurse.org/?Action=Content&id=1074 August 19, 2005 Federal Labor Board Cites Scripps for Repeated Labor Law Violations - Ongoing pattern of denying nurses freedom of speech, failure...

  10. Contriversy regarding TennCare & disabled people.

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Tennessee Nursing

    I chanced upon these sites. Can a fellow ALLNURSES.COM member explain this to me. I realize this is only one side of the story. MCIL Timeline of the Americans with Disabilities Act....

  11. Placing Emergency Department Crowding on the Decision Agenda

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Emergency

    Ya think? Increasing ICU Beds Eases Ambulance Diversion. http://www.ohsu.edu/ohsuedu/newspub/releases/030405bedshtml.cfm -------------------------------------------------------------------- Good...

  12. Placing Emergency Department Crowding on the Decision Agenda

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Ya think? Increasing ICU Beds Eases Ambulance Diversion. http://www.ohsu.edu/ohsuedu/newspub/releases/030405bedshtml.cfm -------------------------------------------------------------------- Good...

  13. Placing Emergency Department Crowding on the Decision Agenda

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is SO important. Many hospitals routinely and almost constantly hold ICU and other patients in the ER. It is now planned. One hospital where I worked registry had papers taped to the walls in...

  14. Placing Emergency Department Crowding on the Decision Agenda

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Emergency

    This is SO important. Many hospitals routinely and almost constantly hold ICU and other patients in the ER. It is now planned. One hospital where I worked registry had papers taped to the walls in...

  15. Teach me about the National Right to Work Committee

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I THINK there is a link for every fact here. I think it is good to know as much as possible about a nationawide organization that seems to have taken such an interest in nursing in California. No...

  16. Has anyone taken the new AACN Cardiac Surgery Cert.

    pickledpepperRN replied to big sweet life's topic in MICU, SICU

    congratulations! :balloons: i would take it if i were younger. i'm only competent to care for the patients of one team of cardiac surgeons. i applaud you and others for proving your

  17. Teach me about the National Right to Work Committee

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry, you can doubt my word if you want. I heard him say the same thing twice on local KABC talk radio. Once in 1996 when there we had proposition 216 (Patient Protection Act) on the ballot. The next...

  18. Rapid Response Team

    pickledpepperRN replied to Lukestar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I don't know of any either. You're right. It would make an important study. My thinking is that since patients conditions can change so suddenly that would be likely to be missed by the nurse...

  19. Rapid Response Team

    pickledpepperRN replied to Lukestar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Yes, almost 60 years History of Critical Care Nursing Although very ill and severely injured patients have always existed, the concept of critical care is relatively modern. As advances have been made...

  20. Rapid Response Team

    pickledpepperRN replied to Lukestar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I usually bring my food for the night I have when unable to leave the unit or a patient had a can of Ensure. The black cherry flavor is gritty. Better than working 12+ hours on coffee and H2O. Perhaps...

  21. MSNBC/Connected and Arnold's Affair??????

    pickledpepperRN replied to barefootlady's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am more concerned with a candidate for governor making a deal to pay "hush money" than anyones private life. I don't consider a movie set, location shoot, or gym open to public membership...

  22. Teach me about the National Right to Work Committee

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    CNA does not collect dues for representation at a facility until the represented nursesapprove a contract by a majority vote. I check out the CNA web site often. I believe if there had been a contract...

  23. Non-punitive med error policy

    pickledpepperRN replied to sbic56's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Link to book To Err is Human - http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309068371/html/ The JCAHO on errors. Interesting testimony: http://www.jcaho.org/news+room/on+capitol+hill/oleary_test.htm *...

  24. Rapid Response Team

    pickledpepperRN replied to Lukestar's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Di I think code blue nurses should be without a patient assignment? Here is what I posted: Otherwise which patient gets ignored? Whose pedal pulse fades? Who is found out of bed bleeding where their...

  25. Need ideas about bills that are trying to be passed

    pickledpepperRN replied to colleennurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Here are som links to get you started: http://www.nysna.org/programs/nai/legislative/nai_leg_home.htm http://www.nysna.org/programs/nai/legislative/activity.htm...