herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Eastern Maine Medical Center locks out nurses

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

    ..."we're just here to support the nurses," said ron green, a firefighter-emergency medical technician for bangor fire department, who stood with his wife, emily. "we, the firefighters, bring patients...
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    Nurses at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Fla., Joins NNU

    herring_RN replied to nicurn001's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Texas Castle Doctrine or Texas Castle Bill or Texas Castle Law
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    CNA set to strike at Oakland Children's Hospital

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

    Many nurses have a loyalty to the health of their community. The minimum core is nurses' ability to provide safe, effective, therapeutic patient care to patients and families with compassion. It...
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    Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

    herring_RN replied to NNU NURSE's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    nurses' union flexes political muscle labor group that played role in whitman's defeat now plans to press brown on workplace rules, universal coverage...
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    Nurses at Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Fla., Joins NNU

    herring_RN replied to nicurn001's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    [color=#464646]florida rns vote by 92% to join nation's largest nurses union for stronger voice for patients, rns,,, ,,,[color=#464646] "i became an rn to be a patient advocate, and through...
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    Lock Out in Monterey County

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

    so the hospital is failing to provide nursing assistants (maybe clerks too). this is in violation of a sentence in the first paragraph of hospital regulations that
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    Lock Out in Monterey County

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

    Some hospitals break the law. Most common are facilities that assign an LVN to 5 patients and an RN to 5 patients in med-surg. The RN is to "cover" the patients of the LVN so the RN is responsible for...
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    CNA set to strike at Oakland Children's Hospital

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

    i'm glad patients at our hospital have nurses who organized for safe staffing and patient advocacy. the managers who cut 50% of the rns and pharmacists replacing them with unlicensed personnel have...
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    Meg Whitman addresses the CA nursing shortage

    herring_RN replied to orange juice's topic in California Nursing

    whitman's line about the definition of insanity is a comment on consultant-driven candidates who read lines written for other consultant-driven candidates....
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    Nurses Union Plans Ad Campaign Against Nevada Republican

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

    "they [republicans] say, 'you're too conservative.' was thomas jefferson too conservative? i'm tired of some people calling me wacky." --sharron angle, march 21, 2010 "i hope that's not where we're...
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    Nurses Union Plans Ad Campaign Against Nevada Republican

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

    As a member of CNA I choose to contribute to the political action committee (PAC). Like many other members I filled out a card specifying how much i want to be deducted for the PAC along with my dues....
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    Health Insurance Changes Come Too Late For Some

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#333333]september 23, 2010 [color=#333333]the six-month anniversary of the new health law marks the official effective date of a raft of new consumer protections, including a ban on most...
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    Huckabee Opposes Insurance For People With Pre-Existing Conditions

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    former arkansas gov. mike huckabee ® this week blasted the democrats' health reform law for its prohibition on health insurers denying patients based on pre-existing conditions. applying that logic...
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    Workers voice ills outside VA

    herring_RN posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    chanting "hey hey, ho ho, unsafe staffing's got to go," registered nurses and others at charlie norwood va medical center staged an informational picket wednesday to protest what they say is a lack of...
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    Katrina........5 years later

    herring_RN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for
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    Question About Abortion

    herring_RN replied to Tweety's topic in Ob/Gyn

    For thr California Code go to - http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html Click Health and Safety Code and type in 123420. Then click
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    Katrina........5 years later

    herring_RN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

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    Question About Abortion

    herring_RN replied to Tweety's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You cannot be forced to participate in an abortion. Here is the law passed in 1974: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00000300---a007-.html The best way to prevent this is to write a...
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    Staffing Ratios Condemn Patients To Inferior Care

    herring_RN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    hospital claims aside, ratios save lives when i started in nursing 33 years ago, my first years were in a medical surgical unit being the only rn responsible for 24 patients. nurses didn't last long,...
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    Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

    herring_RN replied to NNU NURSE's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Meg Whitman puts the "A" in
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    Stage set for Temple University Hospital strike by PASNAP

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

    more than one hundred thousand dollars a
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    What do health insurance corporations do?

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Please tell me what constructive and/or useful things health insurance companies do. I see they own large buildings throughout the country. What is getting done in
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    What do health insurance corporations do?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Of course it is wasteful. Money we pay for healthcare should go to provide healthcare. Please let me agre with you. Some research and reports:
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    What do health insurance corporations do?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A physician ordering a cancer screening test is not the same as a hospital putting a fountain in the lobby. Of course waste is waste. When a hospital lobby looks like a luxury hotel while patients...
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    Report critical of St. John Providence Health System labor practices

    herring_RN posted a topic in Michigan Nursing

    [color=#333333]interfaith workers justice[color=#333333], a national religious organization based in chicago, issued a report that alleges ascension health and its warren-based subsidiary, st. john...