Chico David

Chico David BSN, RN

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  1. Wife Doesnt Want Like the Idea

    Chico David replied to Luminosity's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'll second something that one of the earlier responders mentioned and that is the variety in nursing. This was one of the biggest reasons I chose it as a career. I'd seen too many folks who had...

  2. Nurses at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Fla., Joins NNU

    Chico David replied to nicurn001's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I've been involved with my union for 10 years now and have helped with quite a few organizing campaigns and I have to say I have never seen a margin that large in a first-time representation election....

  3. CNA set to strike at Oakland Children's Hospital

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

    I just want to offer an alternative point of view here on public sector workers. Here's a link to an article reporting a brand new study on public sector compensation. Public workers highly paid?...

  4. Sick and tired of the AAS BSN debate

    Chico David replied to Natingale's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Not only is the BSN/ADN debate old hat, but it's a part of the stupid ANA type strategy to keep nurses divided and powerless rather than united and powerful. Each type of education has its value and...

  5. CNA set to strike at Oakland Children's Hospital

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

    If you had worked in a unionized environment in that first job, new nurses coming in at higher pay would not have been a problem and you could have saved all the costs of moving - enough to pay many...

  6. Would you ever be a scab?

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

    The way union folks feel a out them, that's pretty much as mild a term as we could use. The willingness to stand with the bosses against your fellow workers is part of the reason for the enormous...

  7. CNA set to strike at Oakland Children's Hospital

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

    There are lots of good nurses in and out of unions. I can have productive discussions with sincere nurses who believe a union is not for them. Harder to have that sort of discussion with people whose...

  8. CNA set to strike at Oakland Children's Hospital

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

    I'll largely repeat a comment I've made before: Because CNA/NNOC stands up for the interests of nurses and patients, it makes a lot of very rich and powerful enemies. And every time we get into a...

  9. do you have Private Health Insurance??

    Chico David replied to Trubie's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of thoughts: That rate is insane for group insurance, but I guess that's the way our insurance industry is going. Assuming that you are healthy and reasonably medically sophisticated,...

  10. Getting a union

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

    That is indeed correct, but a few more details are in order. Do some research on what union you want. I'm highly partial to unions for nurses and run by nurses. Because a lot of the state nurses...

  11. Help me understand something about unions

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

    Here are a few thoughts: 1. First off, management is proposing a pay cut in your example and the union is fighting it. In the absence of a union, management would have simply done it without asking...

  12. Nurses Union Plans Ad Campaign Against Nevada Republican

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

    We have this amazing concept in this country called representative democracy - you elect people to do a job and if you don't like what they do, you elect someone else. The board of our union makes...

  13. Nurses Union Plans Ad Campaign Against Nevada Republican

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

    Glad to see the comments above. As an officer in a politically active nursing union, I periodically hear from members who say we "shouldn't be involved in politics". Of course what they actually mean...

  14. please educate me Should I get a position in union vs nonunion facility?

    Chico David replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'll take a shot at it here. I'm from the strongly pro-union side. There won't be anyone who is truly "objective" on this subject - the best you can do is look at the pro and anti- arguments and use...

  15. Extended MN Nurses Strike Averted

    Chico David replied to Intern67's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The eloquence and thoughtfulness of your argument leaves me

  16. Staffing Ratios Condemn Patients To Inferior Care

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

    Especially since the acuity there has increased too in recent years. Long ago when I worked in LTC, most patients were more or less custodial and were kept in the acute hospital until pretty stable....

  17. the National Right to Work Foundation propaganda

    Chico David replied to nicurn001's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    actually, every single piece of the above is false. i am participating as a volunteer in an organizing drive right now under an election procedures agreement that is fairly typical of such agreements...

  18. Staffing Ratios Condemn Patients To Inferior Care

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

    Others here have done such a great job of exposing the idiocy of the original article, I don't feel the need to chime in on that one. Here's my take on the national bill: The California law moved when...

  19. EFCA - A Jobs Fail

    Chico David replied to viral2010's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Hmm...Have to think on that for a while. Since many (most?) of the state nurses associations are dominated by managers and have not chosen to do collective bargaining, a lot of nurses are scattered...

  20. EFCA - A Jobs Fail

    Chico David replied to viral2010's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Yeah, that part about "staying competitive in the global economy" means that big business wants the American worker to compete for a job against workers in places like Kenya and Vietnam where they can...

  21. What can we expect while negotiating our first Union Contract?

    Chico David replied to magg1107's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You've probably seen pretty much the range in those last two responses - 6 months for a first contract is really short, 18 is really long, but neither are unheard of. I think you are at an HCA...

  22. Extended MN Nurses Strike Averted

    Chico David replied to Intern67's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The idea that Medicare is harder to deal with than private insurance is totally imaginary. I've done both when I was in management and there's no comparison. I know a bunch of physicians who have...

  23. Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    1. mistating that number by a factor of 10 was not a typo. It was either (charitable interpretation) a major math error or (less charitable interpretation) a deliberate inflation. 2. Nobody was...

  24. set up for fraud?

    Chico David replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in General Nursing

    I do have an even better one: before nursing school I worked through the summer at a LTC facility. The staffing on the night shift consisted of one licensed nurse and 8 aides (if everyone showed up)...

  25. Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    And you really should work on that math - make that kind of mistake in a pediatric dosing calculation and you kill a patient for