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  1. Terrible firestorms

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in California Nursing

    http://www.calnurses.org/socalfires102703.html Thousands of people in Southern California, including many Registered Nurses, their families, and other health care workers, are suffering dramatic...

  2. Hawaii nurses protest meeting snub

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    http://starbulletin.com/2003/10/24/business/story3.html Hawaii nurses protest meeting snub Star-Bulletin staff Members of the Hawaii Nurses Association protested yesterday morning upon being excluded...

  3. Telephone Medical Advice

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    To preface I must say a former coworker has MS. She cannot work staff and really likes working at a call center. Although she says there are only minimal problems where she works she thinks the new...

  4. Telephone Medical Advice

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in California Nursing

    http://www.calnurse.org/cna/press/91003a.html California Nurses Association Welcomes Passage of Bill To Protect Patients in Telephone Medical Advice The California Nurses Association today hailed the...

  5. Telephone Medical Advice

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    I really appreciate your firsy hand knowledge. Not being a Kaiser patient and only working registry in two of their hospitals I don't understand the call center system very well. I have relatives who...

  6. Against the spirit of ratios

    pickledpepperRN replied to RNKPCE's topic in California Nursing

    http://www.calnurse.org/102103/hospindustry.html Hospital industry seminars advise administrators how to evade RN ratios *'Close beds and cry wolf': *Attacks on RN practice: *Eroding the ratios at the...

  7. Telephone Medical Advice

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    http://www.calnurse.org/102103/seiuattack.html#raten On two major legislative issues in recent weeks, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) took a major stand against registered nurses that...

  8. Telephone Medical Advice

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1761%257E1711119,00.html The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA) October 20, 2003 Monday SECTION: OPINIONS/EDITORIALS HEADLINE: Who you gonna call?...

  9. 43.6 million Americans without health insurance coverage

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What do you think the chances are that the people of the USA are ready for a serious discussion of universal health care now?

  10. Against the spirit of ratios

    pickledpepperRN replied to RNKPCE's topic in California Nursing

    I believe you have an in house union, KRONA, at Stanford. Find someone who was there in the early to mid 1980s. I have been told there was true'Primary Nursing" with an RN responsible for the care...

  11. Against the spirit of ratios

    pickledpepperRN replied to RNKPCE's topic in California Nursing

    Below is a cut and paste from the DHS link. How do you interpret the first paragraph? (from the revised Statement of Reasons)...

  12. NICU New Grad Programs in SF Bay Area

    pickledpepperRN replied to SJSU_Mami's topic in California Nursing

    Sorry I don't know too much about Northern California nursing. Just want to say:

  13. 43.6 million Americans without health insurance coverage

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What do we get for the $$$ spent? U.S. still top spender on health care Post #1 http://www.msnbc.com/news/980802.asp?cp1=1 U.S. still top spender on health care Data also show fewer doctors, few...

  14. 43.6 million Americans without health insurance coverage

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    When I see the MANY large buildings owned by insurance companie$ and the $alarie$ paid to their top executive$ it seems clearly unfair to me. No one in those buildings prodides ANY patient

  15. Leading Hospitals Under Fire for Errors

    pickledpepperRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think she got it right. How can nurses help improve the

  16. Hospital to Pay Workers Overtime It Withheld

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in California Nursing

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cedars16oct16,1,1854480.story October 16, 2003 LOS ANGELES Hospital to Pay Workers Overtime It Withheld Cedars-Sinai employees will receive $875,000 after an...

  17. U.S. still top spender on health care

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.msnbc.com/news/980802.asp?cp1=1 U.S. still top spender on health care Data also show fewer doctors, few signs of better health Oct. 16-The United States continues to far outspend other...

  18. Telephone Medical Advice

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in California Nursing

    http://www.calnurse.org/press/101303.html Gov. Davis Signs Telephone Medical Advice Bill, California Nurses Assn. Hails Gain for Patient Safety The California Nurses Association today welcomed...

  19. New...need advice

    pickledpepperRN replied to lilchoka's topic in California Nursing

    I cannot praise the accelerated BSN program at Mt. St. Marys in Los Angeles. It is intensive but the students are excellent! There may be a similar program in San Diego. Just some links to more...

  20. New Grad in Orange County

    pickledpepperRN replied to Katerina's topic in California Nursing

    There are probably others but UC Irvine and Hoag have very good reputations. I know nurses who work at both and really like it. PM me if you want. I'm working many nights until after the weekend but...

  21. House Votes to Protect Overtime Pay

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think mant allnurses members wrote, called, and e- mailed their representatives to hel this. Please not those who changes their mind. That was US, the VOTERS VOICE!...

  22. San Diego hospital administrator arrested in Tenet investigation

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Never been to this hospital. I think it is close to Disneyland. Fullerton, Calif., Hospital Probes Malpractice Charges against Neurosurgeon September 23, 2003 7:14pm Knight-Ridder / Tribune Business...

  23. San Diego hospital administrator arrested in Tenet investigation

    pickledpepperRN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    San Diego hospital administrator arrested in Tenet investigation Wednesday, September 24, 2003 ©2003 Associated Press URL:...

  24. San Diego hospital administrator arrested in Tenet investigation

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And now: http://www.kpmginsiders.com/display_reuters.asp?cs_id=79847 Tenet General Counsel Leaving Company CHICAGO, Sept. 26 (Reuters) - Tenet Healthcare Corp., embroiled in government...

  25. San Diego hospital administrator arrested in Tenet investigation

    pickledpepperRN replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tenet25sep25,1,7763266,print.story?coll=la-headlines-business Hospital Administrator Arrested in Tenet Investigation Prosecutors charge Mina Nazaryan of San Diego...