Chico David

Chico David BSN, RN

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  1. union pro or con

    Chico David replied to mark3274's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'm convinced that most of the state nurses organizations that do collective bargaining fit that description exactly - CNA, Mass. Nurses Assn, New york State Nurses Assn, etc. (Many state nurses assns...

  2. 4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

    Chico David posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    4,000 brave women and men, RNs from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, are spending this week on the picket lines outside of Sutter Health Hospitals throughout...

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

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

    from medicalnews today.com: "An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study...

  4. 4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

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

    From my Webster's Third International: Militant: Agressively active in a cause, as "a militant suffragist" Militancy has a tradition we should all be proud of. Militancy achieved the vote for women,...

  5. 4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

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

    Nurses in California hate to strike - or at least most of us do. But we have used the power of unity and militancy to win the best wages and benefits in the country, the only numerical staffing law...

  6. working two 18 hour shifts and one 12 hour in a week

    Chico David replied to ben123's topic in California Nursing

    I wish I had a reference, but sometime back I read of a study showing that a person working longer that 12 hours was impaired in judgement and alertness comparably to a person with a .08 blood...

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

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

    Nurses are called - and in California at least, legally required - to act as patient advocates. It's possible to construe that very narrowly, and apply it only to the patient we are caring for on a...

  8. First Unionized Hospital in Texas

    Chico David replied to herring_RN's topic in Texas Nursing

    You have now had the unfortunate experience of being exposed to one of the sad realities of employment in America. In the absence of a union contract, almost anywhere in the USA you can be fired for...

  9. Making Patient Advocacy Real

    Chico David posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I just want to share with you an inspiring story of a success in the never-ending fight to get insurers to treat their customers fairly. There's a phrase I'm hearing more and more - Death by...

  10. Family coverage to cost $24,000 by 2016, 45% of median household income

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

    This does really point up the urgency of doing something - and the right thing. Thoughts on the drivers of high cost: 1. The many administrative costs associated with our fragmented system. These...

  11. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

    Chico David replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm not an expert by any means, especially in the details of the British system. My main concern was the many comments in this thread that conflate all forms of government involvement in healthcare...

  12. Why unions are good for nursing and good for patients

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

    So here's a fairly concrete example of the postive role that unions have played in nursing and patient care: I don't have all the names dates and places at my immediate disposal, but the facts are...

  13. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

    Chico David replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I must say that for those of us in the US, the discussion of internal politics in the British system is pretty much Greek - or Cockney, which is the next best thing for being incomprehensible. Just...

  14. How is a health issue made into law?

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

    That last post is not too wide of the mark, but I would add one modification. The somebody who says " there ought to be a law" is usually some sort of organized body. A local government entity, a...

  15. florida unionized?? can it work?

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

    That can be fine up to a point. But if your conception of your duty as a nurse leads you to advocate for the patient against the interest of your employer, without a union behind you, you'll get a lot...

  16. How Do You Think That the WallStreet Scandal Will Affect Nursing Jobs?

    Chico David replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There's plenty of blame to flow around, but the key element that made it possible for this to get so big and go so far was the "securitization" of these loans. Banks have re-sold loans for a long...

  17. How Do You Think That the WallStreet Scandal Will Affect Nursing Jobs?

    Chico David replied to pagandeva2000's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Likely the biggest effect in the job market will not be the number of jobs for nurses, but in the number of nurses available to fill them. At any given time there are a fair number of nurses who are...

  18. New Steward

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

    I have no magic answers, but because I care so much about nursing and nurse unions, I'll give a stab at a few answers. It won't be highly organized, but more a series of random thoughts. I'm chief...

  19. Post actual experiences re healthcare

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

    this is not a clinical experience but an insurance purchase experience. Please excuse my being a bit long winded. I've always been super frugal, big saver, small spender: drive old cars, don't eat out...

  20. My son was denied health insurance!!!!!

    Chico David replied to Little Panda RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Just some thoughts stimulated by the last few posts on this thread. I'm a cardiac rehab nurse and work daily with helping folks lose weight, lower BP, control diabetes, establish exercise programs...

  21. More shady dealings in SEIU

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

    The truly unfortunate part here is that this sort of thing will be used to smear good unions along with the bad. Management and the union busters love to tell these stories as evidence that unions are...

  22. Regulation Proposed to Help Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination

    Chico David replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In my opinion, the provider's conscience should be respected up to the point where it prevents the patient from receiving a needed service. In hospital settings, the ability to find another nurse to...

  23. How does California manage to staff with a 5:1 ratio?

    Chico David replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Ah - behind the Redwood Curtain! Your area is sadly pretty depressed economically - the consquence of a resource extraction economy - but I'm still surprised at wages being that low. St Joseph's in...

  24. What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    Chico David posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    that you have heard of a hospital requiring nurses to do? I was in a meeting with a group of nurses yesterday - most of us with more than 25 years as RNs - and was hearing about the lovely new...

  25. Massachusetts Nurses: advocacy in ACTION

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

    I don't have details, but I believe the industry succeeded in watering the bill down in Senate committee to the point that it is nowhere near what the MNA had hoped to achieve. Anyone know