herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Nurses and the 2008 election

    herring_RN replied to Brian's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Ni I don't speak Italian. I took Latin in school. Know some Spanish with a very bad American accent. Like others I am very interested in healthcare in
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    Hurrican Gustav

    herring_RN replied to icyounurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm working day shift Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The nurse I'm working for will either participate in a Labor Day parade and go to the opening of a new Whole Foods Market or be deployed to...
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    "Broken Levees, Broken Lives"...the Post-Katrina Focus on Health

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    "Broken Levees, Broken Lives"...the Post-Katrina Focus on Health Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans are still waiting... Even though flooding only occurred in the...
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    Nurses and the 2008 election

    herring_RN replied to Brian's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Ragarding nurses actions successful in adding language to the party platform at the Democratic National Convention 2008 The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and...
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    Nurses and the 2008 election

    herring_RN replied to Brian's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    i think that is an excellent politic regarding healthcare. i admit to being ignorant about any details about healthcare in italy. maybe you will want to post on the social advocacy site?...
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    "Broken Levees, Broken Lives"...the Post-Katrina Focus on Health

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    what katrina revealed from the harvard law and policy review.
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    "Broken Levees, Broken Lives"...the Post-Katrina Focus on Health

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#752222]fixing charity is the faster, cheaper option, study says but state supporting brand-new hospital baton rouge -- the shuttered charity hospital can be gutted and rebuilt into a...
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    Nurses and the 2008 election

    herring_RN replied to Brian's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    ...perhaps the most immediate impact of the liberal quest to be heard came in the drafting of the democratic party platform to be adopted by the convention this week. the experience of donna smith is...
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    My pockets are overflowing!

    herring_RN replied to jsu102's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Fanny pack nurse here. I have three and wash them every
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    U.S. Conference of Mayors Backs Single-Payer National Health Insurance

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Single payer for sick system BY PATRICIA EAKIN AND MALINDA MARKOWITZ...
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    Nurses and the 2008 election

    herring_RN replied to Brian's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    In 1978 my mother died in a hospital in Rome. She had lost her sight and regained it in one eye. She wanted to see the Vatican and art in Italy. She sent cards and gifts to hundreds of people on that...
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    Healthcare guarantee in party platform

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Healthcare Reformers Hold Reception For Congressional HR 676 Caucus At Democratic National Convention, Tues. Aug 26, California Nurses Association The California Nurses Association/National Nurses...
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    Healthcare guarantee in party platform

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    for a new economics the tepid platform democrats will adopt in denver is not a new social contract, but it does go places republicans never will. because of popular mobilization, it calls for...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    herring_RN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    the united states is ranked #37 as a health system by the world health organization. the u. s. health system spends a higher portion of its gross domestic product than any other country but ranks 37...
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    Regulation Proposed to Help Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination

    herring_RN replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A wonderful physician refuses to give up everything. Even with a patient >90, metastatic CA, comatose, ventilated, vasoactive drips and all will not get a discussion about code status or comfort...
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    Regulation Proposed to Help Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination

    herring_RN replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I volunteer at Red Cross blood drives. Sign people up too. I've donated gallons. I would NEVER sneak a blood product on a patient who for religious and/or moral belief is that it is wrong to accept...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    herring_RN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/checkup/index.php?action=print
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    Just one persons opinion

    herring_RN replied to dauschundlover's topic in General Nursing

    Dr. O'Grady advocates software rograms that can easily over ride the judgment of an experienced RN. And waste our time. He is out of touch enough not to understand that all too many nurses are...
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    Just one persons opinion

    herring_RN replied to dauschundlover's topic in General Nursing

    experience alone may not be sufficient for competence but a nurse cannot be competent without experience. new technology and protocols are often implemented for the health of the budget rather than...
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    Regulation Proposed to Help Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination

    herring_RN replied to Anxious Patient's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We work with a wonderful RN who is Jehovahs Witness and does not administer blood. She is not assigned fresh open heart or acute GI bleed patients. On the rare occasion her patient needs blood or...
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    Comfort Care

    herring_RN replied to byaya3's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I've fanned people with magazines and such. Feeling the air does help some people a
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    4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

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

    Nurses, 2 Sutter hospitals have tentative pact After 15 months of often barbed negotiations and three short strikes, union-represented registered nurses and two Bay Area hospitals affiliated with...
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    To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    .this is the author trying to crash a california nurses association party. thousands of nurses prevented the governor from eliminating the safe staffing ratio for the er and preventing the med-surg...
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    Discussion- Urge Congress to Support HR 5924: Legislation to Address Nursing Shortage

    herring_RN replied to lawrence01's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We have read many news reports on allnurses.com about recruitment companies that take the nurses' passports. Nurses who are paid lower wages, and basically taken advantage
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    4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

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

    nurses union reaches deal with mills-peninsula the california nurses association monday said it has reached a tentative agreement on a contract with mills-peninsula health services, a sutter health...