RN4MERCY

RN4MERCY

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  1. More shady dealings in SEIU

    RN4MERCY replied to JimmyHiggins's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Yes, Jimmy, thanks for the correction! I tried to edit, but my five minutes was up. Some of us went to a labor day parade today and Annelle Grajeda was supposed to be one of the SEIU speakers. No...

  2. More shady dealings in SEIU

    RN4MERCY replied to JimmyHiggins's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    i'm reminded of sir walter scott's famous stanza from marmion: "oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!" tell the truth and it is always there. apparently, stern can't...

  3. California Nurses/NNOC Director Rose Ann DeMoro Named To Healthcare's 100 Most Powerf

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Fyi...I think you owe herring_RN and Modern Healthcare readers an apology! "Modern Healthcare's well-focused and concise editorial coverage enables hospital leaders to take constructive action and...

  4. More shady dealings in SEIU

    RN4MERCY replied to JimmyHiggins's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    This is just more evidence that SEIU/International is the WRONG:down: union for RNs who are organizing to advance a more professional and powerful social advocacy agenda. Such paternalism,...

  5. "Broken Levees, Broken Lives"...the Post-Katrina Focus on Health

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is a very moving documentary video, well done. Although it tells a shameful :(story about the decimation of our public health care system, it's a story of hope:nurse: and courage and action....

  6. 5th Sutter Hospital settled

    RN4MERCY replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Wow, this is huge. The RNs stuck together and provided evidence of management's wrong-doing by documenting that administration wasn't providing enough meal and break relief nurses to comply with the...

  7. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    RN4MERCY replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Tax payers are already funding the majority of the health care in this country; paying more per capita than all the other industrialized nations and we're getting less. Why should we continue to...

  8. Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    RN4MERCY replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I disagree with you! Just what is it about the healthcare crisis in America that you think is exaggerated and inaccurate? It's the number one issue that concerns voters this election year. Don't...

  9. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    RN4MERCY replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I watched in disbelief as this "celebrity chaser" tried to disrupt and interfere with tv news crews that were trying to record an interview with CNA/UNION members. She's very unprofessional and has...

  10. More shady dealings in SEIU

    RN4MERCY replied to JimmyHiggins's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Autocracy, Cronyism, and Paternalism: Serving Employers Instead of Us, THE company union. Thanks for the links to these important stories, Jimmy. And, good luck to the hardworking union members at...

  11. SEIU raid on CNA NNOC nurses in Chicago

    RN4MERCY replied to JimmyHiggins's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    A good point regarding direct care nurses recognizing that "THEY" are the union. However, I believe the Cook County/Chicago RNs' organizing committee demonstrated that they are involved; they...

  12. 4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    thank you for sharing this wonderful news. education, mobilization, and collective action, in unity, to win better working conditions, will help this sutter facility attract and retain more nurses to...

  13. More shady dealings in SEIU

    RN4MERCY replied to JimmyHiggins's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Workers deserve honest, democratic, transparent unions committed to their best interests and to social justice...not ones corrupted by anti-democratic tendencies, too-cozy relationships with...

  14. To Unionize or Not To Unionize: Questions that every nurse should ask themselves

    RN4MERCY replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Something just doesn't sound right about this and if you could provide some clarification regarding "two year probationary period;" re: was this "probation" because you were a new hire, or was it as a...

  15. florida unionized?? can it work?

    RN4MERCY replied to CodeQueen's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Here's my two cents re: questions to ask: Does the union represent any other employees at your facility or is it just the RNs who are organizing? Are they seeking to represent nursing assistants and...

  16. What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This proves it, our employers are definitely organized. I've seen this at other hospitals too. Talk about scrimping on the tile and wallpaper budget! I can think of another use for their...

  17. florida unionized?? can it work?

    RN4MERCY replied to CodeQueen's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You're right, it's not always about the money. For years employers have taken advantage of the "good will" and "altruism" of professional nurses. Many have worked overtime and off the clock and do...

  18. What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    http://www.jointcommission.org/SentinelEvents/SentinelEventAlert/sea_40.htm Could these scripting initiatives have something to do with the new JCAHO sentinal event alert, "Behaviors that undermine a...

  19. The Overuse, Underuse, and Misuse of Health Care

    RN4MERCY replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There are socio-economic disparities to be sure, in the access to and distribution of health care resources and services. Quite honestly, my cynic's antennae went up just reading the title of the...

  20. What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Oh, I almost forgot...here the administrators go again, trying to chip away at the nurse's credibility as patient advocates. Anyone else feel insulted by this poster/button campaign? "It's O.K. to...

  21. What is the dumbest most degrading, most unprofessional thing...

    RN4MERCY replied to Chico David's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The "pumps and pearls" set is at it again. POTTYING? During our hospital's annual "skills lab" this year, they actually had a "skill validation" station with candy kisses and little souvenir...

  22. "It's Health Care, Not Health Insurance"

    RN4MERCY replied to imanedrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I believe you about the jobs. Employers here do the same thing. I think some of that has to do with the cost insurers charge employers to offer disability and health insurance. Aren't the premiums...

  23. "It's Health Care, Not Health Insurance"

    RN4MERCY replied to imanedrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A single-payer, national health care plan, HR 676 would be the ultimate, transparent solution in terms of equitably securing an accessible health care delivery system for people based on medical need....

  24. "It's Health Care, Not Health Insurance"

    RN4MERCY replied to imanedrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks for speaking up about this practice. This is important information and it occurs to me that nurses have to be especially careful about having their "fingerprints" on the process of insurance...

  25. Hospital Association Bribes Citizens of Mass

    RN4MERCY replied to RN Power Ohio's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    The devil masquerades as an angel of light, indeed, quite capable of bestowing 'gifts;' to the spirit of error belong greediness, slow hands in the service of righteousness, wickedness and falsehood,...