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    Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance

    Chisca replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If that is what you call fine I would hate to see what you would call trouble. The company hired for the new system, at a cost of 120 million dollars, is 24% owned by the company that designed the...
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    Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance

    Chisca replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Like that Monty Python skit where the pet store owner argues that the parrot isn't dead he's just "resting". Sorry to disturb the
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    Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance

    Chisca replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Massachusetts, Oregon, Nevada and Maryland. $474M for 4 failed Obamacare exchanges - Jennifer Haberkorn and Kyle Cheney - POLITICO.com A company named Serco was awarded the contract to process...
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    Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance

    Chisca replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So all this drama to pass ACA so that 1 million to 1.4 million could get insurance through government exchanges? And the other 8 million were from employer coverage and medicaid? 4 of those exchanges...
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    If no union in right-to-work state, then what?

    Chisca replied to callmecrazyRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    So damn
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    Nursing judgement in dealing with difficult patients.

    Chisca replied to FransBevy's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Have behavioral contracts gone the way of the dodo bird? Dialysis is a life saving treatment yet I have to beg and plead with a patient so he/she will "let" me give them a dialysis treatment. Are we...
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    Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance

    Chisca replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I wish that it were so but why is a processing center in Missouri doing so little work? If so many new people are signed up wouldn't there be a deluge of applications needing processing? "The main...
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    VA problems are in most hospitals

    Chisca replied to rnpatrick's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The VA has never worked and since it's inception has been mired in scandal. Shinseki's resignation will not change the culture of corruption that lies at the heart of the VA. Belmont Club » The...
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    Clonidine Use in the Chronic Unit

    Chisca replied to westieluv's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Outstanding article. Another reminder of the complexity of
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    Let's talk about the VA

    Chisca replied to Episteme's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Very hard to quantify what the VA spends per veteran on direct healthcare as there are 8 priority groups. The cost for each veteran per year in these groups ranges from a low of 869 dollars to a high...
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    Let's talk about the VA

    Chisca replied to Episteme's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Blue cross platinum plan in the state of Tennessee is 7,000 per
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    Let's talk about the VA

    Chisca replied to Episteme's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I think all veterans should be entitled to make the choice you made. The concept of choice is an existential threat to those who view the VA system as deserving a monopoly on the delivery of veterans...
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    If no union in right-to-work state, then what?

    Chisca replied to callmecrazyRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    None of this came about because of the union. Does the union also take credit every time the sun rises? The VA in Minneapolis has to respond to the gains that other unions have fought and died for. A...
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    VA problems are in most hospitals

    Chisca replied to rnpatrick's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    “We don’t have no where else to go, that’s why we go,” said John Williams, a Vietnam vet who says he knows many people who complain about doctors not keeping appointments and problems with...
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    VA problems are in most hospitals

    Chisca replied to rnpatrick's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    VA budget for 2015 is 163 billion. Number of veterans served by the VA is 8.76 million. That's 18,607 dollars per veteran per year. The DHHS states the cost of private insurance through health...
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    Should I just give up?

    Chisca replied to FransBevy's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I'm "sheltering in place" as I don't think the grass is greener anywhere else. That paper you are pushing is the result of a perfect storm of performance based guidelines being harnessed to...
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    If no union in right-to-work state, then what?

    Chisca replied to callmecrazyRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Toothless tigers. Their contract forbids them from
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    VA problems are in most hospitals

    Chisca replied to rnpatrick's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    That's precisely the problem. If I think hospital X is a bad hospital I can pick and choose to go to another hospital. If I think the Memphis VA is bad I can go where? 200 miles to Nashville? 300 to...
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    VA problems are in most hospitals

    Chisca replied to rnpatrick's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    3 years at Memphis VA. I was also a shop steward in the union so I would have been aware of disciplinary actions throughout the hospital. No one was ever fired. The house staff refered to the wards as...
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    Synthetic Marijuana - Research

    Chisca replied to francoml's topic in MICU, SICU

    Also a few cases of renal failure requiring hemodialysis. Poison is the correct description.
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    VA problems are in most hospitals

    Chisca replied to rnpatrick's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The difference between the VA system and the private world is nobody at the VA is ever fired. NEVER EVER. This lack of accountabilty is what is wrong with the VA
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    A Word To The Wise.........

    Chisca replied to NDXUFan's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Threads like this save me from having to visit the I hate dialysis
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    A Word To The Wise.........

    Chisca replied to NDXUFan's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    There is nothing in nursing like the "blue code of silence" that police officers have to protect abusers. My city can't even stomach a civilian review board so that police misconduct can be...
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    A Word To The Wise.........

    Chisca replied to NDXUFan's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Can't we all just get along? I don't appreciate being threatened with being shot if I don't do what you want, or my family being threatened because in your neighborhood that's considered normal. We...
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    acute dialysis nursing

    Chisca replied to cntrynurse1034's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    It depends on what experience you bring to the table. Dialysis experience alone, in my opinion, does not prepare you for acutes because the patients are alot sicker. Add on the plumbing set up for...