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July 16, 2014 Bloomberg's newsweek.com is reporting that "A Navy Nurse Is Refusing to Force-Feed a Guantanamo Inmate" "For the first time, a Navy medical officer has refused to force-feed hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay." "...The nurse who refused to force-feed Dhiab has not been identified, but appears to be a Navy lieutenant..." I wonder if this will be a story that will never be heard about again.

CNA heroes, you give selflessly everyday for very little in return. It seems that healthcare industry strategy is to substitute non-monetary compensation like appreciation in place of sufficient wages. http://www.clintmaun.com/index.php5?cID=265 “Turnover Rates and Statistics In Long Term Care & Hospitals low wages - according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, almost a fifth of direct-care workers—far more than the national average of 12 to 13 percent—earn incomes below the poverty level. lack of benefits - one-third of home care aides (32.1 percent) and a quarter (25.2 percent) of CNAs in nursing homes have no health insurance, compared to one-sixth (16 percent) of all U.S. workers.” It’s not an accident nor a coincidence that CNAs earn very little in return for their work. Here’s how healthcare companies learn how not to pay CNAs AND nurses monetary compensation (text in bold type present on the website): http://www.characterbasedleadership.com/Training1.html Intended Audience All healthcare managers, executives, administrators, DONs, and team leaders “An innovative (and simple) recruitment strategy that cuts CNA turnover in half and causes audiences to sigh in relief when they hear it!” “Reinforce behavior they want repeated through a non-monetary method of employee recognition.” http://www.integrity-tr.com/index-Nursing-Home-Employee-Turnover-HC.htm “This training workshop saved healthcare organizations thousands of dollars within the first year. If your organization doesn't double it's ROI within one year of applying character-based leadership skills, we’ll make up the difference.”

It doesn't appear that those re-employment services were much of a threat to today's registered nurses or taxpayers. The autoworker story was published five years ago...before the national economic meltdown but while auto manufacturing jobs were already being outsourced to China, India, Mexico and Brazil. The article describes two accelerated BSN programs "for people with an existing four-year science-related degree" ("blue-collar" workers?). The lucky few who accessed the limited opportunity (e.g., just 48 students at MSU) paid for all or most of their tuition out of their retirement buyout funds. The three-year training program probably allowed an ADN degree. Workers who don't qualify for real skills-training programs like a registered nursing degree can access assistance through the Workforce Investment Act, which provides counseling in resume-writing and access to computers for job searches. Are there readers here who also feel indignant or have reservations about the unemployed Americans now accessing the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program? 99,000 participants, up to $17,676 assistance, 100% taxpayer dollars. By the way, Anne, Michigan Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm's "No Worker Left Behind" training program didn't just dry up. Present Republican Governor Rick Snyder sat on it for two years to "study" it, and then he even defunded the report which was supposed to have come out this December. Nothing is happening by accident, so don't forget to vote in November! :)

Someone will be writing a book about this someday, and you’ve got a headstart. :)

I think AJPV was using the notion of a task performed for a patient as an abstract unit of work in order to explain the math concerning nurses’ hourly incomes. I am concerned sometimes about the level of mathematics on this site. Perhaps some nurse educators themselves were not trained well enough to pass along math concepts such as the importance of significant figures (including trailing zeros behind a decimal point), or the use of the conversion factor tool, dimensional analysis. For example, the ratio-proportion method for converting units of measurement is the special case of dimensional analysis with only one conversion factor, whereas a general dimensional analysis equation can include any number of needed conversion factors to solve a problem…as long as you cancel the units of measurement correctly in the numerators and denominators of the conversion factors. Ask ex-engineers on this site, and they’ll probably agree about its unfailing value. :) Or is the problem the funders of nursing education who purposely skimp on mathematics training...to the point that some nurses might not grasp math such as AJPV provided? If that’s the case, then nurses might have difficulty gaining as much influence in health care economics and politics as they need, and so they will find it hard to move forward as a group.

sally pipes identifies herself as founder & ceo of pacific research institute and author of the truth about obamacare - what they don't want you to know. greenpeace at exxonsecrets.org tracks people and organizations funded by exxon-mobil and says she served on arnold schwarzenegger's transition team. in radio interviews on conservative-leaning broadcast networks such as wjr detroit, pipes says she is a canadian economist who moved to the u.s. because "the united states has the best healthcare in the world", whereas canadians "have to wait four months to see a specialist". she does not clarify that canadians are universally covered for healthcare treatment compared to millions of uninsured americans, or that one in four americans have had to cut back on medical care due to the recession, compared to one in twenty canadians. pacific research institute's main goal appears to be defunding the u.s. healthcare reform bill if republicans regain control of congress. patients, nurses and ratios will just be collateral damage.

Top business news headline (momentarily, at least) PeoplePC - News Minn. nurses strike is part of new union's push June 09, 2010 11:47 PM EDT MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-Thousands of nurses in Minnesota are bracing for a one-day strike as part of a new national union's aim to fight hard for nurses as hospitals are increasingly pressured to cut costs. Health care costs have been skyrocketing, and like other businesses, hospitals are trying to trim their budgets. Nurse pay and benefits are among their largest expenses. The new union-formed barely six months ago-is gaining popularity for its more assertive stance for nurses' interests. The nurses have authorized the one-day strike Thursday on 14 hospitals in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Hospitals have complained that the Minnesota nurses have resisted compromise because the national union, National Nurses United, wants a headline-grabbing strike to help with recruiting. Officials from the national union deny that.

i understand that the nurse would practice in a professional, non-sexual manner, but... how about a job in which a gay, lesbian or bisexual patient or patients prefer a glbt nurse? do such employment positions exist (likely outside hospitals)? where can i apply?!