nicurn001

nicurn001

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  1. Patients Are Not Consumers

    nicurn001 replied to StNeotser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If I am to be a true consumer of healthcare , there needs to be a transparent market place of the goods I consume . This is not the case in healthcare , where can I go to compare prices charged by...

  2. RN's...in demand if willing to relocate?

    nicurn001 replied to pat8585's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    The question , you have to ask is why there are so many jobs in texas ? Is it due to a booming healthcare economy or simply churning of positions , due to the poor working conditions often mentioned...

  3. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    nicurn001 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    ok , as to the alternative you have offered ie. reduce present expenditures to what you can afford ( i agree , but i'm not sure the corporations would d/t a reduced amount of money being available for...

  4. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    nicurn001 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    dp1200 , you did not offer an alternative , you simply said you believe social security should be cut both in amount and time . The alternative I'm asking to be defined is how people are to finance...

  5. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    nicurn001 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think the deafening silence , re. the question I posed in my previous post ( #87 above ) . It is interesting how people can argue against something , that takes part of their income to give them at...

  6. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    nicurn001 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    While we have gone of at a tangent getting ever deeper into the financing of social security , I would be interested to know what is the alternative being offered , by those opposed to social security...

  7. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    nicurn001 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Nurses are reflective of the community they come from , as is evidenced by the responses to threads upon this forum , In expressing our opinions we can expect responses from nurses with the opposite...

  8. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    nicurn001 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    lord help us if the future you appear to hope for comes about , we will have free ,totally unregulated corporations , throwing bones from the kings table to the scrabbling masses , who will be home...

  9. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    nicurn001 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

  10. Wisconsin has gutted Medicaid, no mandated ratios!

    nicurn001 replied to EponaRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You failed to mention those who who choose through intentional behavior not to purchase healthcare insurance , just because they are healthy at present . That is not the reason we buy insurance , it...

  11. Do you pay more for health care than you get back?

    nicurn001 replied to starzrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Starzrn as Elkpark said the whole purpose of insurance is to shift the risk of a financial liability from yourself to an insurance carrier .I hope and pray that I am paying more for my insurance than...

  12. Unlisenced assistive personell replacing nurse positions

    nicurn001 replied to Italia23's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I believe the crux of the issue here is that if an unlicensed person is representing themselves to be a nurse or is fulfilling procedures outside their scope of practice , then they should be...

  13. Unlisenced assistive personell replacing nurse positions

    nicurn001 replied to Italia23's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If someone is representing themselves to be a licensed nurse , whoever or whatever their role is , the simple answer would be to see the person responsible for supervising their " nursing " activities...

  14. To unionize or not...

    nicurn001 replied to TravelinCEN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Capecodmermaid , you can find idiots in any place of employment . The people you describe can be found in non union places of employment , if they are protected by TPTB ( who take the place of a union...

  15. To unionize or not...

    nicurn001 replied to TravelinCEN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You can be fired if you do a **** poor job , even in a unionized work place , all unions do is ensure employers follow applicable law and the companies own HR / relevant policies to terminate an...

  16. Irish Nursing Students Protest Marching against pay cuts

    nicurn001 replied to Florence H.H.'s topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Bottom line if the student nurse is required to work then that work should be financially compensated , the employer is getting the benefit of their labour . If the student is to be viewed as a...

  17. To unionize or not...

    nicurn001 replied to TravelinCEN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I have on a number of previous threads asked those opposed to unions to give a viable / effective alternative to get an intransigent / bad employer to change there relationship towards there employees...

  18. Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    nicurn001 replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I was brought up in the UK when / where unions had real power , it was not a good thing ,I now live and work in the US where management has almost all the power , that is not a good thing . Industrial...

  19. NICU NURSES....labeling breast milk???

    nicurn001 replied to schoolnurseadmin's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Mothers pump milk , place label on bottle ,with date and time of pumping .When we use milk 2 nurses check name and date , their is also a image of an animal on each label , as a quick visual cue

  20. Vent thread "universal" health care

    nicurn001 replied to mauxtav8r's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If you have nothing you cannot sacrifice to pay for coverage . Many who are not dead beats ( that are usually pointed at as the parasites who suck upon the government teat ), the ones who have these...

  21. Vent thread "universal" health care

    nicurn001 replied to mauxtav8r's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The debate re. free care is futile . No care is free , somebody will have to pay!. But there will always be those who are unable to pay ( who vastly outnumber those who choose not to set aside money...

  22. Vent thread "universal" health care

    nicurn001 replied to mauxtav8r's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    To those of you who appear to be saying that healthcare should not be free , that everyone should pay . What are you going to do with those that need healthcare and cannot afford it (Charity alone...

  23. Being forced to work while sick

    nicurn001 replied to phosphorus's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Can happen anywhere , unless the union contract specifically addresses cuts . My wifes union contract specifically addresses this issue and she cannot be cut , her employer can ask her if she wishes...

  24. If we had a conservative nurses forum

    nicurn001 replied to FLmomof5's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    sameyjaney , Unfortunately the economy is not something that can be fixed quickly , even in its more normal levels of rise and fall , any adjustment to the economy takes a while to bring about a...

  25. If we had a conservative nurses forum

    nicurn001 replied to FLmomof5's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i agree with you that healthcare is broken and that how to fix it is a devisive