Chico David

Chico David BSN, RN

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  1. Is it legal to call yourself "Nurse" when you in fact are not?

    Chico David replied to LoveMyDaughters's topic in General Nursing

    There was an interesting and even more egregious problem in California a few years back. One of our large HMOs operates call centers where patients call in for appointments. The people answering the...

  2. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

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

    And without unions, we'd all be working for the same wages and benefits that workers get in the countries those manufacturing jobs have gone - we'd all have the same living standards as the third...

  3. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

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

    Good

  4. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

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

    That's actually one of the pretty minor issues in the strike, the bigger ones being management's demand to double the cost of health benefits to the nurses and the demand for a gag rule that would...

  5. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

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

    Not even remotely a "tricky situation". There is abundant precedent and law supporting the right of health care workers to take concerted job actions. For that matter, it's equally clear, at least...

  6. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

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

    regarding how union people feel about those who act as "strike replacement workers", let me tell a small story. i'm a cardiac rehab nurse, and our program has a maintenance program that some patients...

  7. Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

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

    this is a report - obviously from the union point of view, which i support - on the strike at temple university hospital by nurses and other professional and technical workers. temple hospital wants...

  8. Unions prevelance across US?

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

    Unions vary a lot in how well they serve their members and the public at large, but in nursing the best unions are some of the best anywhere. Nobody is getting rich - though staff are decently paid...

  9. Is it ethical for nurses to go on strike?

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

    This issue has a new timeliness right now. The nurses at Temple University Hospital - members of PASNAP, an affiliate of CNA/NNOC - are about to strike tomorrow. One of the key issues in the strike...

  10. Unions prevelance across US?

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

    I speak as an unabashed union supporter, so bear that in mind. For us, one of the strength s of having a union is in exactly this kind of situation: Since a nurse can only be fired for "just cause"...

  11. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    Oh, I'm off early in the morning camping with no internet access for a week, so I'll have to leave this little discussion behind. Have

  12. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    well, let's see: there's this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/canadians-happy-with-primary-health-care-study-says/article1229169/ and this takes a pretty good overview of several studies:...

  13. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    Where do you that piece of silliness? To say that corporations largely control our government is simply to state an obvious fact. One that unfortunately changes only a little regardless of which...

  14. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    He apparently had some bad luck with his sample size of seven, but all the large surveys - you know, actual data - show Canadians much happier with their health care than Americans, even though what...

  15. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    The rights they enumerated were a radical idea for their time. In most of the world at that time, most of the population had no rights and that was generally felt to be proper. Even in the US, that...

  16. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    America

  17. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    I'll repeat what I said before - Nothing is inherently a right. A right is whatever a society decides it is. If a society, through it's political mechanisms decides that it would rather tax itself...

  18. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    There are a number of provisions in the bill to create pilot projects to study ways to improve care. Contrary to scare tactics from the right, they won't be implemented system wide unless they prove...

  19. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    Contrary to what some might say, rights are not "natural" or "inherent" but are what any society believes is a right at a given period of time. For most of human history, and even in a great many...

  20. National Nurses United statement on Healthcare Reform

    Chico David posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i think this gives a fairly balanced perspective on what the newly passed law does and does not do. being an optimist, i tend to think of it as a partial step in the right direction. we've heard...

  21. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    The difference between a health insurance company and the Mafia? If the Mafia demands protection money and you pay them, they usually won't kill

  22. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    Actually, I just live in reality in instead of an imaginary alternate reality. As Steven Colbert said, " Reality has a well known liberal bias" Capitalism does a wonderful job of producing consumer...

  23. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    Even faster than they already are? - like the 39% increase that Anthem-Blue Cross announced in California this year? I find it comical that some folks actually think this is hard on the insurers....

  24. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    Gee - I didn't list out the advantages either - I just referred people to the article - which does list both advantages and disadvantages, but concludes that overall most sectors of the industry come...

  25. Let's talk about the basic facts about the health care reform bill...

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

    I'm not actaully a big fan of this bill, since I'm a single payer person myself. Only time will tell whether the good effects outweigh the bad. Overall, despite all the hyperbole by both sides - and...