herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Professional orgs.: what are the benefits

    herring_RN replied to ontocrna's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). They are excellent for education and patient care standards. Critical care nurses can be certified as meeting minimum...
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    Nurses Rally for Health Care Funding

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#264884]audio slideshow: nurses union keeps pressure on health care overhaul ...sue gray, 51, who has been a nurse for more than 30 years and cares for cardiac surgery patients at minneapolis...
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    Nurses Rally for Health Care Funding

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is about taxing the Wall Street corporations that were bailed out by our tax money. They then gave their executives bonuses and foreclosed on homes. To me they got money (welfare) because they...
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    Nursing Unions: Pros and Cons

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

    My experience with an RN union is different. I've traded days with no problem unless the other nurse wasn't able to take an IABP patient and I was the only one on who could. It is also OK to get a...
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    Nurses Rally for Health Care Funding

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#333333]local nurses rally in washington group promotes focus on healthcare funding [color=#333333]cathy landas got involved in the political process as she ventured to the center of it all....
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    Blue Shield CEO Bruce Bodaken Earned $4.6 Million Last Year

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    maybe he was embarrassed into doing something
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    Blue Shield CEO Bruce Bodaken Earned $4.6 Million Last Year

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#930000]may 26, 2011 for the first time, california's largest nonprofit health insurer has released the salaries of its 10 highest-paid executives in response to a new state law intended to...
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    HCAHPS Scores = hospital pay

    herring_RN replied to A&OxNone's topic in Nursing News

    I read it as stating increased reimbursement requires that certain criteria are met. Yes patient satisfaction scores are one item....
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    John Nichols: Ryan's wrong - we need 'Medicare for all'

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    house budget committee chair paul ryan proposes to undermine the integrity of the medicare and medicaid programs, with an eye toward enriching the insurance companies that so generously fund his...
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    Conscience Schmoncience! Who cares what you believe?

    herring_RN replied to jmqphd's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    allnurses.com post mentioned in this AJN Ethics article - http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/journalarticleprint.asp?Article_ID=573335 I am pro life. choose med-surg and then critical care because I...
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    Conscience Schmoncience! Who cares what you believe?

    herring_RN replied to jmqphd's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    do you think it should be illegal for doctors to ask about guns in the home? florida bill would prohibit doctors from asking patients about their guns -
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    St. Vincent Hospital nurses approve 1-day strike

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

    [color=#333333]st. v nurses ok contract [color=#333333]3-year deal addresses staffing concerns [color=#333333]friday, may 20, 2011 [color=#333333]worcester[color=#333333]-nurses at st. vincent...
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    Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    the nation's major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set among americans who are postponing or forgoing...
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    Medicare Debate and Nursing

    herring_RN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    chastened on medicare cuts, gop takes aim at medicaid the part of the ryan budget proposal calling for an overhaul of medicare--turning it into a voucher program for seniors to buy private...
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    Tufts nurses vote 70% to authorize strike

    herring_RN replied to Chin up's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    tufts medical center rns reach tentative agreement averting a strike pact provides nurses with staffing improvements, limits on patient assignments in key areas, and strict limits on the use of...
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    St. Vincent Hospital nurses approve 1-day strike

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

    [color=#2851a2] [color=#2851a2] open the link o the safe staffing provisions for their new
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    Tufts nurses vote 70% to authorize strike

    herring_RN replied to Chin up's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    st. vincent avoids nurses strike with tentative agreement [color=#464646]may 4, 2011 [color=#272727]by chelsea conaboy, globe staff st. vincent hospital in worcester has avoided a promised nurses...
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    ObamaCare/Health Reform Law Blamed for Nursing Strikes

    herring_RN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I didn;t know about nurses on strike right now. How about starting a thread about them?
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    Tufts nurses vote 70% to authorize strike

    herring_RN replied to Chin up's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    just one example from page 34: we know that fatigue and hunger due to lack of sufficient staff to provide for meal and rest breaks lead to accidents and
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    National Nurses Day: May 6th

    herring_RN replied to Willow Moonsidhe's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    LPNs and LVNs have a license to practice nurses. If course they are nurses. I think nursing assistant work should be honored during Nurses Week too. We are a team caring for patients. Nurses
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    Right To Work States, hospitals are unionizing

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

    florida nurses win union voice in plantation, florida., registered nurses at florida medical center voted overwhelmingly tuesday to join the national nurses organizing committee-florida, an affiliate...
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    Tufts nurses vote 70% to authorize strike

    herring_RN replied to Chin up's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Four or fewer patients per RN is evidence based to prevent death due to "failure to rescue". I agree with the Tufts nurses. Please open attachments to read the studies. Aiken_study_Oct2002.pdf...
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    Tufts nurses vote 70% to authorize strike

    herring_RN replied to Chin up's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    tufts chief takes on nurses vows to tap replacements during possible strike zane told the herald she's contacted out-of-state nurses and is prepared to spend up to $4 million hiring at least 200 to...
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    Tufts nurses vote 70% to authorize strike

    herring_RN replied to Chin up's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    nurse: we're fighting for the patients by joe fitzgerald | saturday, april 16, 2011 | [color=#ca6700]http://www.bostonherald.com | [color=#ca6700]columnists ...as thursday afternoon dragged on, she...
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    Tufts nurses vote 70% to authorize strike

    herring_RN replied to Chin up's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    this thread is about tuffts nurses struggle too.