herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    What do health insurance corporations do?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I trust my NP or physician to know which tests or procedures I need than an insurance company executive who neither examined nor assessed me. And I can discuss my healthcare needs with my
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    What do health insurance corporations do?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Medicare sets physicians fee schedules....
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    What do health insurance corporations do?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    one reason i think we need medicare for
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    Would you support this federal staffing bill?

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Would you support this bill to provide staffing in acute care and long term acute care hospitals by patient acuity with the ratio the maximum number of patients that may be assignd to a nurse? One...
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    Would you support this federal staffing bill?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    certainly skilled nursing facilities need improved staffing regulations. it will require a coalition on rns, lpn/lvns, cnas, residents, potential residents, and family members to achieve this. for...
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    Would you support this federal staffing bill?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    scroll down. this is included in the
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    Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    whitman - nuance or flip-flop on issues? monday, august 2, 2010 has california republican meg whitman, the former ebay ceo who says she'll bring a fresh approach to state government, become precisely...
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    Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    thank you karen. who else is old enough to remember the attempt by the ama to replace rns with a new technical
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    Would you support this federal staffing bill?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I encourage you to write your senators and congress person with your proposed amendments when the bill is coming up for a vote. And join with others to write as many legislators as possible. For PACU...
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    Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    Looking it up in my thesaurus I
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    Nurses unionize to improve patient care

    herring_RN posted a topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    ... America's nurses are on the march-literally and figuratively. Consider just two recent developments: * In Minnesota, 12,000 nurses from 14 hospitals walked off the job for a day last...
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    Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    california governor's race: meg whitman vs. the nurses union ...only a small percentage of cna's 85,000 nurses work for the state, but budget cuts and furloughs affect the state agencies on which the...
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    Meg Whitman addresses the CA nursing shortage

    herring_RN replied to orange juice's topic in California Nursing

    we will need you! and i think private duty and any other nursing experience is worthwhile. but hospitals will still need to orient inexperiences nurses long enough for them to become
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    Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    http://www.factcheck.org/2010/07/jerry-brown-a-legacy-of-failure/
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    Whitman goes toe-to-toe with nurses union

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

    Where did this "information" come
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    Embezzlement: Nurse union chief pleads guilty

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

    Can you be specific? Are you accusing someone of criminal
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    Meg Whitman addresses the CA nursing shortage

    herring_RN replied to orange juice's topic in California Nursing

    I think that a governor brown would appoint people to the Department of Public Health who would cite hospitals for violating their terms of licensure. If all hospitals actually added staff to meet the...
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    Meg Whitman addresses the CA nursing shortage

    herring_RN replied to orange juice's topic in California Nursing

    fact check: we find meg whitman's attack ad fails to tell the truth.
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    Meg Whitman addresses the CA nursing shortage

    herring_RN replied to orange juice's topic in California Nursing

    Meg Whitmans campaign manager Governor Pete Wilson vetoed the safe staffing and ratio bill twice. As governor Jerry Brown signed into law the very first ratio bill of two or fewer patints per nurse...
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    Can the CNA do anything about nurse guest workers?

    herring_RN replied to whewWeWon1's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The foreign born RNs I know are now United States
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    Potential MN Nurses Strike?

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

    Hospital administrators job is to run a hospital Their duty is to provide healthcare. I was NOT posting about them. Health insurance corporations duty is to shareholders. No one working for them...
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    Potential MN Nurses Strike?

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

    Healthcare compensation in 2008 was highest for people working for corporations that provide no patient care at all. Ron Williams - Aetna: Total Compensation: $24,300,112.oo H. Edward Hanway - CIGNA:...
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    Largest Nurses Strike in US History - Replacement Nurses Arrive - Your opinion

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

    Staffing issues have never been permanently solved. Two examples. 1. Two medical - surgical units at the same hospital with similar average acuity. We have staffing by acuity with 5 patients the...
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    Potential MN Nurses Strike?

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

    I hope to never need surgery in a hospital with unsafe staffing. DH spilled his urinal and turned on the call light. He moved to the dry side and went to sleep. 2 1/2 hours later a man, not a nurse,...
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    Care Delivery Models and the Union

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

    he Maine State Nurses Association has an ADO form on the web - http://www.calnurses.org/nnoc/maine/assets/pdf/maine_ado_form.pdf Here are links to information about why it is good to document unsafe...