Chico David

Chico David BSN, RN

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  1. Potential MN Nurses Strike?

    Chico David replied to Brian's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    For the folks who have trouble with the idea of a nurses strike, here are a few thoughts: 1. Nurses strike as an absolute last resort when all other options have been exhausted. There was a recent...

  2. Potential MN Nurses Strike?

    Chico David replied to Brian's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    My hospital has newspaper racks in a public area. During our original organizing drive the local free weekly had a cover story about it and someone in admin pulled all those papers off the rack....

  3. Potential MN Nurses Strike?

    Chico David replied to Brian's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    My guess is that they will. Unfortunately, as of now I think the Teamsters are not in the AFL-CIO, which the MN nurses are via their being part of NNU. But the teamsters and other non-AFL unions...

  4. Potential MN Nurses Strike?

    Chico David replied to Brian's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Well, I saw it, but then I am one of the union activist types who hangs out here a lot. One might hope that the management of the Minnesota hospitals might learn a thing or two from the beating that...

  5. ANCC Magnet certification

    Chico David replied to dzadzey's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Magnet designation is three things first and foremost: 1. A way to generate income for the ANCC - the agency that awards magnet status. 2. A way to give nurses the illusion of empowerment while...

  6. Who is an advocate for nurses?

    Chico David replied to BrittRN21's topic in General Nursing

    That helps a lot. Short answer: you have done your job and are not at any risk yourself, as far as I can see. If you are worried that your manager is duplicitous - hopefully not! - and might say the...

  7. Top 10 Reasons Against Unions

    Chico David replied to PICUPNP's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You do seem like kind of a sad individual to continue spewing your vitriolic insults against all the thousands of great nurses who are proud to belong to a union. I was a nurse manager for 13 years...

  8. What Cha Got Planned For Nurse's Week?

    Chico David replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    I'll be in Washington DC with about a thousand other nurses from NNU to advocate for a national ratio law and other protections for nurses. And catch up with friends from other states and maybe have...

  9. Who is an advocate for nurses?

    Chico David replied to BrittRN21's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my, what an interesting question. It would be helpful to know in a general sense what the problem is, since the answer could vary a lot, depending on the nature of the problem. I'm a union...

  10. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

    Chico David replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Nurses everywhere should thank them for their courage and their financial sacirfices they made to win this. Standards matter - every hospital that has a high standard for compensation, working...

  11. What happens now? Am I in trouble?

    Chico David replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in General Nursing

    At a lot of places the charge nurse is not really supervisory at all, just a staff nurse who is picked to be charge for that shift and gets dumped on just as much as any other nurse - maybe more,...

  12. What happens now? Am I in trouble?

    Chico David replied to DayDreamin ER CRNP's topic in General Nursing

    Several thoughts: 1. ditto to the above comment on an incident report. 2. I'm a union steward at our hospital and one of the things I encourage nurses to do is to just make some quick private notes...

  13. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Chico David replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Actually, I do - check back in a few months and we'll see who's right. Texas nurses are smart enough to know that their work and their skills are being undervalued and that only by standing together...

  14. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

    Chico David replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    especially if it turns out that the state rules temple does have to pay those benefits, temple management is going to end up truly looking like idiots, having succeeded in: 1. achieving virtually none...

  15. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Chico David replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Herring: looks like you and I were thinking along the same lines at the same time - thanks for your nicely done

  16. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

    Chico David replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    This discussion wandered far from the original topic of the Houston election, but thought this the best vehicle for a news update: The nurses at Cypress-Fairbanks got derailed by the management...

  17. Travis AFB area- nursing jobs?

    Chico David replied to KaitRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not from the immediate area, but drive through it a lot and know nurses around there some. the key is that you are within reasonable commute distance of a ton of hospitals there. California's...

  18. understanding unions for dummies?

    Chico David replied to julz_ch23's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Given that angle, a good place to start would be the web sites of the various state nurses associations that do collective bargaining. There is an umbrella organization made up of some of the larger...

  19. CMEs vs CEUs

    Chico David replied to Mary C's topic in General Nursing

    Check with your state board of nursing. In California, CMEs are accepted by the BRN and by the licensing agencies for some other fields, like respiratory care - but it's governed at the state level...

  20. Insurer targeted breast cancer patients to cancel

    Chico David replied to netglow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The basic business model of health insurers is to exclude the sick from coverage. It's central to what they are. As long as you have a system in which for-profit insurers compete with each other,...

  21. Is it safe to do CPR outside of work????

    Chico David replied to Misslady113's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing school insructors say some strange things sometimes - which might make a thread in itself. As others have said, most states have "good samaritan" laws that protect the person who attempts in...

  22. New Study: More nurses save lives.

    Chico David posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    i've also posted something on this on the nursing news area, which seems to be awaiting moderator approval before it shows up. in the meantime, i have found a link to the original study so i thought...

  23. Is this abandonment?

    Chico David replied to ra3583's topic in General Nursing

    let me say a couple of things, here, with some sense of gentleness and concern for you as a person and a nurse, as well as for your patients. First, you need to pull yourself up a bit and realize that...

  24. RN Super unions: squabelling and splintering

    Chico David replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    An interesting variety of points of view: Some thoughtful and interesting, others less so. I would note that pretty much all the negative statements about NNU in that first article are from officers...

  25. Unionization up for vote at my facility

    Chico David replied to txdude35's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    My hospital is like yours, in that charge nurses are not in the bargaining unit and considered management. I'm not a charge nurse and don't know exactly what the pay differential is (probably in the...