Chico David

Chico David BSN, RN

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  1. florida unionized?? can it work?

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

    As previous poster mentioned, UFCW has historically been a union mainly for retail grocery workers. How much experience they have in representing nurses I can't say. A really good test is to ask to...

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

    Chico David replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This thread has turned in an even meatier direction here. Of course the answer to what to do about all of this dumb, unprofessional stuff is to stand together as a group with your fellow nurses and...

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

    Chico David replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    By California standards that's astonishingly low. I'm guessing you are in one of the very small mountain towns far from population centers. I'm in northern Sacramento Valley, pretty much away from...

  4. Nurses Unions?

    Chico David replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    Currently, only a minority of hospitals in the US are organized into unions. Union density is highest in California, with New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and a number of others having pretty high...

  5. The Overuse, Underuse, and Misuse of Health Care

    Chico David replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Much of this has been known for a long time, so I've had some chance to think about it. The map tends to make it easier to draw some inferences. My not-too-systematic thoughts: 1. I see a high...

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

    Chico David replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    As the person who started this thread, this feels like a good place to jump back in. I've thoroughly enjoyed reading the comments in response. The righteous anger of good professional nurses asked to...

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

    Chico David replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    You got that right! In an honest world, where hospital managers were doing their jobs honestly, an acuity staffing system alone would be the right way to go. But management always games such a system...

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

    Chico David replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    By me, this represents outdated admin thinking dating from a very different era. When I started med surg nursing, 28 years ago, there were a lot of patients on my floor - maybe even the majority - who...

  9. Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

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

    Anyone who is honest in discussing this issue has to deal with certain very clear facts: 1. Spending on healthcare is spending on healthcare - whether you spend it via taxes or via premiums and...

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

    Chico David replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    It's interesting hearing some of the comments on the ratios people find in their own hospitals - notably this one in Arkansas and another up-thread in Texas. Here in California, we get a lot of...

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

    Chico David replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    RNsRWe wrote: "About the "mythical place" comment: I said something to my husband about the "country of California", some kind of Freudian slip, LOL, and my husband had to agree that when it came to...

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

    Chico David replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    parts of this are accurate, but there are two very important points to be made: the law came about because of a lot of work by one organization - the california nurses assn wrote the law, persuaded a...

  13. How is a health issue made into law?

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

    to "TheSquire": your confusion is very understandable, if you are a member of what we might call the reality based community. Based on this and other posts, it appears that Kjetski is a classic...

  14. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

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

    Yes, of course we all would pay for publicly funded healthcare, as we all may for healthcare now. We pay in a vast myriad of ways, many of them hidden and, taken as a whole society, we pay more and...

  15. Freedom of speech in health care.

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

    Very good and interesting thread. I would add the one point that we are best and most effective in speaking out - not to mention safest - when we do it as a group with the support of a union behind...

  16. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

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

    I't always so amusing to talk to someone who lives in the fantasy world where the laws of economics apply to healthcare in the same way they apply to other things. Just for one example: there's a...

  17. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

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

    the only function the insuarance companies are performing is to siphon off billions of our healthcare dollars in return for nthing at all. If they really did their job - insured everyone who wants to...

  18. dumb question... what is a union

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

    Not a dumb question at all, since most young Americans grow up with very little knowledge of the labor movement or what it has done for American workers. You've had a couple of pretty decent fairly...

  19. 4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

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

    Even though I am in that union, I'm not a Sutter nurse and not been real directly involved with that situation. What I know, or think I know, is that there are still major areas of disagreement and...

  20. Massachusetts Nurses: advocacy in ACTION

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

    One of the things people need to be aware of is that not all "safe staffing" legislation is created equal. It's a lot like the debate on "universal healthcare". When I talk about univeral care I mean...

  21. Union collaborates with nurse execs on delegation standards- opinions please

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

    Julia RN: "I agree that representing the needs of the patient and direct care nurses must be the sole focus. If you keep managers out altogether, you may exclude RNs who want to promote those...

  22. Crozer-Chester nurses vote to strike

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

    It's just worth pointing out for those who have not been around this sort of thing, that the chain of events we see detailed above is not an uncommon one. There are a lot more strike votes taken than...

  23. Union collaborates with nurse execs on delegation standards- opinions please

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

    From Julia RN "Voting body is whoever shows up at convention. And voting body is a blended group- managers and staff nurses. Who do you think has an easier time getting off to attend?" And there you...

  24. National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

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

    I am so much looking forward to this day. The basic criminality of the private insurers has run wild for far too long, but people are finally beginning to catch on to them. I believe we are getting...

  25. INCREDIBLE CNA/NNOC victory in Houston.

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

    From HM2viking: What struck me most about this article was the idea that without a strong labor movement there can be no middle class. Unless we as professionals speak up for the interests of the 30%...