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  1. Uncharitable Care: How Hospitals Are Gouging and Even Arresting the Uninsured

    Joe Hill replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    KitKat, you quoted the preamble, and the enumerated rights that are provided in the constitution but the fountainhead of our rights is really in the ninth admendment of the bill of rights... It is...

  2. Don't Get Sick and Expect the Government to Take Care of You..

    Joe Hill replied to CseMgr1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What we continually forget is that in this country, the government is: of the People by the People for the People We as a people must take the responsibility and decide how much of our resources...

  3. Doctors Orders

    Joe Hill posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    On a busy Med/Surg floor the doctor stops the nurse to brief her on a patient's condition. "This patient is a fellow physician and my favorite golf partner. His injury is serious and I fear he will...

  4. Union vs. Nonunion-Worth Dues Paid?

    Joe Hill replied to allsmiles's topic in General Nursing

    To paraphrase Winston Churchhill, a unionized hospital is the worst kind of employment except for all those others....For example, in a unionized hospital you have a legal contract protecting you,...

  5. The Death Knell of Nursing?!

    Joe Hill posted a topic in General Nursing

    call me a luddite, but the first three paragraph of this nyt article on the nursing shortage sends shivers down my spine. it portends the end of nursing as a viable career!! the physician inventor...

  6. A safe place to hide from predators....

    Joe Hill posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    It's well known that clown fish on the coral reef have adapted to be able to survive the poisonous sea anemone's sting, which gives them a safe place to hide from predators. What isn't so well known...

  7. Lawyer Joke Thread

    Joe Hill replied to kmchugh's topic in Nursing Humor

    Murphy, a lawyer, bribed a man on his client's jury to hold out for a charge of manslaughter, as opposed to the charge of murder that had been brought by the state. The jury was out for several days...

  8. Lawyer Joke Thread

    Joe Hill replied to kmchugh's topic in Nursing Humor

    A very wealthy lawyer retreated for several weeks each year to his summer home in the backwoods of Maine. Every summer, he would invite one friend or another to stay with him there for a week or two....

  9. Lawyer Joke Thread

    Joe Hill replied to kmchugh's topic in Nursing Humor

    A doctor and a lawyer in two cars collided on a country road. The lawyer, seeing that the doctor was a little shaken up, helped him from the car and offered him a drink from his hip flask. The doctor...

  10. A graduate nurse..........

    Joe Hill replied to debRNo1's topic in Nursing Humor

    Very astute observation, Karen, you sure know pts!

  11. A graduate nurse..........

    Joe Hill replied to debRNo1's topic in Nursing Humor

    a minor correction: a graduate nurse thinks psych patients are interesting. an experienced nurse thinks all patients are

  12. Charting Bloopers

    Joe Hill replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    After a really hard night a harried new resident came to our unit at 6:00am and wrote the following order: 1 member po q4 hrs Media for moderate pain or may give second in 1 hr if pain not relieved. I...

  13. Nurse Strike at MCP/Hahnemann???

    Joe Hill replied to PlanetCaroline's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I for one will try to attend. I just want to thank you for taking a stand for our profession. Mandation is a form of slavery, economic slavery, but slavery none the less. I will see to it that all...

  14. An Order of Spaghetti

    Joe Hill replied to skybirdrising's topic in Nursing Humor

    Geez, I had always been under the impression that the mediteranean diet helped prevent heart disease! :chuckle

  15. Seasons Greetings (after the lawyers were done)

    Joe Hill posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    Monday, December 8, 2003 Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral,...

  16. Why Men Lie....

    Joe Hill posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    Why Men Lie (Finally, a parable that explains it...) One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch off a tree above a river, his axe fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord appeared...

  17. rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy

    Joe Hill replied to Joe Hill's topic in Nursing Humor

    oh well, they fixed

  18. rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy

    Joe Hill posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    ____________________ ____________________ Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and...

  19. rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy

    Joe Hill replied to Joe Hill's topic in Nursing Humor

    look up to the rigth, allnurise.com provides this example to prove that the rscheearch at cmabrigde uinervtisy is rigth: new nurisng

  20. This news STINKS! Calif ratios threatened...

    Joe Hill replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I couldn't agree with you more! Now let's start bringing our Profession around to this view. Organize, Organize,

  21. This news STINKS! Calif ratios threatened...

    Joe Hill replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I know it Stinks but it should not be a suprise in a country that's rapidly embracing the management ideals of worker behavior from the nineteenth century. This, let us not forget, of course impacts...

  22. KROGER'S ON STRIKE - - 3 states involved- - guess what they want???

    Joe Hill replied to passing thru's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What you are saying is that you are pro union when it suits you. I myself would rather pay more money for items if my fellow workers are properly compensated no matter the job they do. Instead of...

  23. Joy In Striking???

    Joe Hill replied to XtREmeRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    First, let me say that no one votes for a strike in a playful manner. It is not a vacation. When people embark on a difficult enterprise, which is a strike, many gird themselves with exuberant...

  24. Call to ACTION - Nursing OT pay, RN licensure is in jeopardy!

    Joe Hill replied to Mr_D's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In PA the Board of Nursing states that not accepting mandation will not put your license in jeopardy for PT

  25. Should nurses be allowed to strike?

    Joe Hill replied to LydiaGreen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I've heard this bromide about unions promoting mediocrity, but no one has given me any real examples of this. Perhaps you can give me a