herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Health reform would be expensive. So would no health reform.

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Single-payer system has its advocates by Dale Davenport Saturday June 27, 2009, 5:05 AM The core issue in the health care reform debate is, of course, money. But it is not just the costs of care and,...
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    Obama's health plan takes shape

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    how health insurance companies redistribute wealth they take our premiums and spend it in ways that do not provide any healthcare. this is because they have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders. *...
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    Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    health insurers refuse to limit rescission of coverage ...executives of three of the nation's largest health insurers told federal lawmakers in washington on tuesday that they would continue canceling...
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    Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

    herring_RN replied to nicurn001's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Primary practitioners, clinics, hospitals, and other facilities pay coders and billers. This is a profession whereby smart people do nothing except try to get the most out of insurance companies. The...
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    Pennsylvania Lawmakers Consider Nurse-Patient Ratio Legislation

    herring_RN replied to geekgolightly's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    text of the bill:
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    10/08 PA Legislation: Mandatory Overtime now law eff 7/1/09; Nursing Ratios stalled.

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    The Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing has stated: "The regulations place the licensee population on notice that abandoning a patient and leaving an assignment without properly notifying the...
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    Obama's health plan takes shape

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/18/hannity-unprecedented-access/
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    Unsafe Nurse-to-Patient Ratio

    herring_RN replied to keithjones's topic in General Nursing

    I think a law can help. Some LTAC hospitals especially have a history of unsafe staffing. This bill applies to them too! It requires staffing by acuity with a ratio setting the maximum number of...
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    Health reform would be expensive. So would no health reform.

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Medicare for All (Single-Payer) Reform Would Be Major Stimulus for Economy with 2.6 Million New Jobs, $317 Billion in Business Revenue, $100 Billion in Wages The number of jobs created by a...
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    How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    herring_RN replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    i had pacificare private health insurance. in an accident my shoulder was injured. i went to my primary physician who recommended an orthopedic doctor and filled out the authorization forma. two weeks...
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    GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I've listened to his show since he began on KABC in the '90s. I think Larry Elder suffers from willful
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    Legislation targets nurse-to-patient ratios

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    State Sen. Daylin Leach, D-17, of Upper Merion, is crafting legislation that would establish minimum registered nurse-to-patient ratios in Pennsylvania medical facilities. "Various reports in recent...
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    Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare?

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    fair study: media blackout on single-payer healthcare proponents of popular policy shut out of debate
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    Employees sick with flu need to call out

    herring_RN replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    RNRN Call to Action Swine Influenza Pandemic Position Statement Partial list of recommendations: * Ensure that RNs and MDs control their practice environment and are able to provide care in the...
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    is anyone familiar with the phrase 'Clinical Supervision'?

    herring_RN replied to scared'o'needles!'s topic in International Nursing

    you are right, i'm in california where the term is in our practice act. clearly if means something very different. we seem to do what you and elkpark refer to in a less formal way. more experienced...
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    Unit Based Staff Educator??

    herring_RN replied to BSN2CRNA's topic in General Nursing

    We used to have clinical nurse specialists for every broad specialty, med/surg, maternal/child, critical care, and so on. We were sent to a major hospital for more specialized classes such as...
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    Englewood Hospital & Medical Center Locks Out Nurses

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

    Thank you Karen for keeping us
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    Obama's health plan takes shape

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I want everyones kids and grandkids to have
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    Obama's health plan takes shape

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Your frustration is justified. This is why tens of thousands of nurses,physicians, and people who believe that no American should be denied needed healthcare will be in the streets. We have to try. My...
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    This Time, We Won't Scare

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    perhaps you've seen those television commercials denouncing health care reform as a plot to create a canadian-style totalitarian nightmare, and you feel a wee bit scared. back in the election...
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    UCSD nurse to testify for single-payer system

    herring_RN posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    [color=#333333]ucsd medical center nurse geri jenkins will argue in favor of a single-payer health-care system during a congressional hearing this morning in washington, d.c. [color=#333333]jenkins,...
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    Obama's health plan takes shape

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Silly, people with jobs use the streets too.Direct care RNs who have jobs plan to be in the streets on their vacation and days off. As we have been doing for years. Many nurses are social activists....
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    UCSD nurse to testify for single-payer system

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have no idea where they got their information. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur200706.pdf
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    Obama's health plan takes shape

    herring_RN replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thank you. Listen and/or read and make up your
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    What do health insurance corporations do?

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm not crying. I'm asking a question. What is being accomplished in all the buildings owened by health insurance