herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Nurses fighting for everyone

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

    When I was the only one working for 1 1/2 years (as an LVN) my DH, grandmother, and two grade school kids paid no income tax. So 80% of the people in our home paid no income tax. We had no welfare,...
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    Nurses picket FL hospital over staffing issues

    herring_RN replied to scecile's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i'm guessing that nurses who don't have acls and cannot treat potentially fatal arrhythmias are floated to a cardiology
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    Moral Courage in Healthcare: Acting Ethically Even in the Presence of Risk

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    with rare exceptions one nurse cannot do it alone. when all or most nurses work together and support each other they can
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    OJIN Jan 2011 focus on Compassion Fatigue: understanding and prevention

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    All too often a caregiver has no life other than caring for a loved one. Caregivers health
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    Nurses fighting for everyone

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

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    LPN's and unions...help me understand

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

    This is the section of the labor code that includes LVN/LPNs as technical along with respiratory therapists and pharmacy techs. I'm posting because there was a
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    LVN/LPN unions?

    herring_RN replied to baby&mommynurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    This is the section of the labor code that includes LVN/LPNs as technical along with respiratory therapists and pharmacy
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    Nurses fighting for everyone

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

    This is for everyone who wants to help do this for everyone. I'll post to update an old thread regarding labor unions & nurses. -...
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    Economic crisis and nurses

    herring_RN replied to scecile's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    National Nurses United has embarked on a campaign to reverse national priorities and policies that have placed the interests of Wall Street over the crisis facing American families today.
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    Religion in the Room

    herring_RN replied to SeeTheMoon's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    My grandma was raised by people who believed those things. They also believe a lot that she figured out by age 8 made no sense. So as a young adult the went to classes to learn the true teachings of...
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    When health insurance isn't enough

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    new studies suggest that coverage doesn't protect americans from going bankrupt over medical costs while the contest for the 2012 republican presidential nomination is already revolving around...
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    Nurses join International push

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

    If you buy toilet paper you pay a tax. Why not those who buy bundled securities and hedge funds? The banks were bailed out and the CEOs gor a bonus. Yet too many illegally forclosed. No one can even...
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    Profit-making Palomar Pomerado Health lays off 27 & sacrifices patient care

    herring_RN replied to scecile's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Million$ for a landscape garden and nothing for a sitter to prevent a deadly fall. It's a
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    Profit-making Palomar Pomerado Health lays off 27 & sacrifices patient care

    herring_RN replied to scecile's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    i googled
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    How health cuts are killing women

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    as republicans push for bigger budget cuts, slashed public health programmes mean maternal mortality is already ticking up while republicans and democrats are engaged in apparently abstract debt...
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    AA's in Flight Nursing...

    herring_RN replied to medrn99's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    We had a critical care transport nurse do per diem in out ICU for nearly two years. On her other job helicopter transport was part of the job. She left us because one job was enough. I'm not sure that...
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    Sanders, McDermott push for single-payer health care

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    nurses union supports equal access for all the view from the hospital floor where nurses give care 24/7 is quite a distance from the halls of congress, which is consumed with debates on debt ceilings....
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    Nurses Rally for Health Care Funding

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    june 7, 2011, 6:19 pm by sean collins walsh hundreds of members of the nation’s largest nurses’ union demonstrated outside the u.s. chamber of commerce and on capitol hill on tuesday. the union,...
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    Nurses Rally for Health Care Funding

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A post on this blog asked: [url=
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    Nurses Rally for Health Care Funding

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    nurses to march on wall street tomorrow at noon tomorrow, june 22d, yet another group of disgruntled citizens will be m arching on wall street to protest corporate and financial injustice and the...
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    If a MD says "Don't Call Back"- do you write that as an order?

    herring_RN replied to proudnurseRN's topic in General Nursing

    I has asked the doctor, "Don't call me about that. Should I write that as an order?" Often they reconsider. Night shift I think they may not be quite
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    President Obama's FY 2012 Budget, FY 2011 Continuing Resolution,? Gov Shutdown

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm not certain of the accuracy of the $1.3 billion per year amount but why say it is completely insignificant? What are our priorities? Do we choose to bail out banks and not our hungry children?...
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    Where does the Unions stand on Importing Foreign Nurses?

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

    the foreign educated nurses i wrote about have been in california for many years. they are now american citizens. i am absolutely against importing nurses from other countries and paying them less...
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    Nurses Rally for Health Care Funding

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    the nurses' main street campaign to rebuild america in every city and town across america today there is a "mr. cellophane", as the musical chicago put it, and other men, women, and children who seem...
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    Where does the Unions stand on Importing Foreign Nurses?

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

    i don't notice that foreign educated nurses are treated differently than those educated in the united states. they all passed the boards in english. in my state they may not apply for a license...