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  1. Patient Protection LAW!

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hospital industry seminars advise administrators how to evade RN ratios http://www.calnurse.org/102103/hospindustry.html California's hospital industry has been holding seminars across the state in...

  2. Patient Protection LAW!

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Original law:

  3. The U.S. health system needs fixing, but how?

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The Collective Will? The Collective Will? The IHSP policy brief closes with exhaustive data that illustrates the current injustices within the health care industry. Excessive CEO compensation and...

  4. The U.S. health system needs fixing, but how?

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    by Mary Watters The U.S. health system needs fixing, but how? IHSP offers an ambitious plan to start the debate. Do we, as a nation, have the will to see this through? Do we have a choice? They...

  5. The U.S. health system needs fixing, but how?

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    12 Steps to Rehabilitating Health Care by Mary Watters The IHSP's 12 Steps to Rehabilitating Health Care STEP 1 Single, Universal Standard of Care A single, universal standard of care must be...

  6. I passed!!

    pickledpepperRN replied to nursesweet's topic in First Year After Licensure

    CONGRATULATIONS!

  7. I passed!!

    pickledpepperRN replied to nursesweet's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Let us know ASAP! I hope and pray you will be licensed

  8. Twelve hours with nurse Esther Marania

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/09/CM69996.DTL HEALTH CARE California's first-in-the-nation nursing/staff ratio law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2004, meaning...

  9. My almost venture into LTC! Verrrrrrrry long!

    pickledpepperRN replied to Brownms46's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The patients are med surg or even step down patients. The long term facilities do not staff for such care. MANY if not most LTC nursing staff has the competence to care for these patients. If not...

  10. Schwarzenegger: Health care options

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sacramento Bee To-do list for Schwarzenegger: Health care options By Rose Ann DeMoro -- Special to The Bee Published 2:15 a.m. PST Sunday, November 9, 2003 Schwarzenegger would do well to adopt the...

  11. Racial discrimination in Nursing....

    pickledpepperRN replied to Barbie38's topic in General Nursing

    Glad you are not working there. There is a big problem when the so called nurse leaders = managers do not insist on quality care. I had a nurse tell me to ask someone else to help pull up a patient...

  12. Racial discrimination in Nursing....

    pickledpepperRN replied to Barbie38's topic in General Nursing

    Fortunately for me as a new grad LVN I was oriented by the charge nurses on the 3-11 evening shift. Both had attended nursing school together in the Phillipines. One is still a friend, the other...

  13. My almost venture into LTC! Verrrrrrrry long!

    pickledpepperRN replied to Brownms46's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Nursing Home Staffing Act Rep. Waxman and other members introduce H.R. 3355 to establish minimum staffing levels for nursing homes. Bill Text Bill Summary...

  14. SARS vaccine two years away

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3AB05495-B32B-4BAF-9A48-8FAEA3DE62D7.htm SARS vaccine two years away Thursday 06 November 2003, 8:13 Makka Time, 5:13 GMT A vaccine against the SARS virus will...

  15. That baby boom population is not going to accept slipshod care."

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.pe.com/business/ Skilled jobs may go begging for workers By Meg Richardson / The Associated Press Sunday, November 2, 2003 Once baby boomers begin to retire, employers may have more...

  16. Mercy Hospital, Bakersfield CA

    pickledpepperRN replied to Midwestbabygirl's topic in California Nursing

    We have a wonderful staff nurse who started as a traveler. After a bad experience at an unsafe facility in an other state she developed a plan. She would call the unit offering the assignment on a...

  17. Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    November 5, 2003 By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - Many hospitals and nursing homes are endangering patients by allowing or requiring nurses to work more than 12 hours a day, the National Academy...

  18. Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Los Angeles Times November 5, 2003 Wednesday Home Edition SECTION: Main News; Part 1; Page 30; National Desk HEADLINE: The Nation; Nursing Safety Net Frayed, Report Says; Staffing shortages, poor...

  19. Cali BON UPDATE 10/17/2003

    pickledpepperRN replied to Brownms46's topic in General Nursing

    This is very good news. I can think of no better way for us to get more qualified registered nurses than to assist licensed vocational nurses in earning their RN. My experience was that the LVN...

  20. resigning

    pickledpepperRN replied to nurse62's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Seems the disrespect of nurses and other staff, lack of awareness that hospitals exist for the purpose of providing NURSING care comes down from the top. If not for ethical nurses, physicians, and...

  21. Whistleblowers Piping Up at Tenet

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3733432 Tenet Healthcare Probe Widened Fri October 31, 2003 11:28 AM ET By Bill Berkrot NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors...

  22. Whistleblowers Piping Up at Tenet

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in California Nursing

    http://www.calnurse.org/ http://www.calnurse.org/cna/seiuwatch/tenseiu80503.pdf http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/melissadavid/10116568.html Whistleblowers Piping Up at Tenet By Melissa Davis Senior...

  23. Whistleblowers Piping Up at Tenet

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tenet1nov01,1,2634115.story?coll=la-home-leftrail Heart Care Scrutinized at 3 L.A. Hospitals By Debora Vrana and Jonathan Peterson Times Staff Writer November 1,...

  24. Nurses Storyline on "ER"??

    pickledpepperRN replied to -jt's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Please! If you watched tell us about

  25. Spotlight on Union RNs

    pickledpepperRN replied to -jt's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I feel proud of nurses willing to do this for the patients and our