herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    herring_RN replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I know a nurse here in the United States who was insured. Her mother and aunt had died of breast cancer. Her older sister is a breast cancer surviver. She felt a "tug" and went to the doctor. He...
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    Ohio nurses, hospitals at odds over patient-ratio proposal

    herring_RN replied to nurseygirl79's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#752222]ohio nurses, hospitals at odds over patient-ratio proposal "...it's criminal what's going on in our health-care systems," one woman wrote. and she's a nurse. one of many i heard from....
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    Paying More, Getting Less: Just Where Do America's Health Care Dollars Go?

    herring_RN replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We the people can and should ensure that improved Medicare is NOT an outsourced system. Basic Medicare is far better than the various "advantage" plans that cost taxpayers more and deny care that...
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    "It's Health Care, Not Health Insurance"

    herring_RN replied to imanedrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    HR 676 establishes an American-styled national health insurance program. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care program that uses the already existing Medicare...
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    Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    herring_RN replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Many of us have been working for decades already. I like to think that we will add more slots for nursing students in our colleges and universities. Some of the displaced low paid insurance...
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    Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    herring_RN replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Our triage nurses can and determine a person presenting themself to the ER does not need to be assigned to a nurse. It may be an ingrown toenail, cut that may need suturing, or a fever and cough with...
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    Do You Want Universal Healthcare?

    herring_RN replied to DanFNP's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    With single payer healthcare we all pay. No young healthy workers gambling by not paying so as to have more spending money. Most may not need much care but will have it if needed. And the risk pool...
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    Snapped at a nurse student last night, she had a bad case of Nursitis

    herring_RN replied to Tony1790's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Once I asked a float CNA to help pull a patient up un bed. She said, "You a RN. You get the big money." I told her the patient still needed to be pulled up. She did help me and told the patient she...
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    "It's Health Care, Not Health Insurance"

    herring_RN replied to imanedrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    expand successful medicare program to all ...july 30 is the 43rd anniversary of the passage of medicare. medicare began because no one except the government was willing to cover the oldest and sickest...
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    RNs Welcome Blue Ribbon Panel Call To Rebuild St. Luke's Hospital

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#333333]rns welcome blue ribbon panel call to rebuild st. luke's hospital [color=#333333]the california nurses association/national nurses organizing committee welcomed the recommendation of...
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    Falling Behind: Americans' Access to Medical Care Deteriorates

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I hope the boomers will vote and lobby to stop this epidemic of outsourcing. That was part of the bill that passed
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    National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    herring_RN replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What web site did you go to? And I' curious about Stanley's question, "What's a
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    National Day of protest Against Insurance Corps

    herring_RN replied to Ludlow's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The Institute of Medicine is a proper source. All of us may need a fully equipped and staffed emergency room at an unexpected time and
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    Am i being Discriminated against?

    herring_RN replied to WVnurse6608's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Questions and Answers About Diabetes in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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    Falling Behind: Americans' Access to Medical Care Deteriorates

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#394b6b]health care marketplace | u.s. spends more than twice as much on health care per person than most other industrialized nations, ranks last in preventable mortality, study finds the u.s....
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    striking nurses

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

    I am so very sorry this happened to Amanda and your
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    Falling Behind: Americans' Access to Medical Care Deteriorates

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    the tv news showed senator kennedy's welcome but not the
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    Patient Safety Act for safe staffing in hospitals

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Wrong thread, sorry. I do hope you get safe
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    Patient Safety Act for safe staffing in hospitals

    herring_RN posted a topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    call your legislators this week! here is how - http://www.protectmasspatients.org/how.htm healthy kids in daycare have a ratio. why not sick kids in the hospital? even dogs in a kennel have a...
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    Discharging a patient...to the streets

    herring_RN replied to ChocoholicRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. He walked around almost constantly for nearly three weeks. A woman who works right there told me. I only saw him once in a while. He never talked or made eye contact. He was incontinent....
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    Stop Foreign Nurses

    herring_RN replied to StopForeignNurses's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Many have and continue to do so. WE NURSES together achieved the first safe staffing by acuity of which numerical ratios are the maximum number of patients that may be assigned. My husbands life was...
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    Stop Foreign Nurses

    herring_RN replied to StopForeignNurses's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Are you a
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    Discharging a patient...to the streets

    herring_RN replied to ChocoholicRN's topic in General Nursing

    A young homeless man spent all his waking hours walking around a pole. He would eat or dring what was handed to him but keep walking. I once saw him sleeping under a bench. When I checked to se if he...
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    Discharging a patient...to the streets

    herring_RN replied to ChocoholicRN's topic in General Nursing

    Near me there are lots of disabled and older people living in vans,, SUVs, and motor homes. They are very glad when I take him left over food from nurse meetings. Thay can buy the gas they need to...
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    Defend RNs Right to Unionize, and Advocate for our Patients

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

    I've attended classes with Kindred nurses who were so concerned for their patients under illegal unsafe staffing they reminded me of veterans with PTSD. Except they were going back. ALL nurses should...