ProgressiveActivist BSN, RN

Well said.

When you post to get answers for an obvious online discussion group assignment we should get college credit too.

Sorry to hear that. Youre screwed if the economy tanks. We have both a 403b with an employer match up to 4% and the insured DB retirement plan.

Then the honorable thing to do when you turn 63 is to live on your investments and never officially retire in order to receive the defined benefit pension.

Dude, You have said that Unions enable lazy workers. Okay but you have slackers anywhere you go. The union ensures that there is factual information and supporting documentation so that no one can be disciplined or dismissed without cause - or ju...

Yes it is very stressful. It will age you rapidly and the stress can take a toll on your health. I believe that this job has taken ten years off of my life.

I agree that memes, parodies and personal attacks add nothing to a discussion about Unions. Which political harpoon are you referring to?

Never heard of a union contract that included mandatory overtime or allowed the employer to mandate extra weekends. The nurse on FMLA can not be fired for a serious medical issue. This is Federal law. STD and sick days are paying the bills until ...

In real life, if you have a special event like a wedding, maternity leave, a graduation, or reunion, and you communicate with your management, its not an issue, in fact its given priority. It is unreasonable to expect management to grant vacat...

Im also skeptical of new members asking off the wall questions about management theories.

I have see many dying older people see and talk to their departed family members. It's always a family member.

Rueger you graduated last May. You cant expect others who have worked there for years to cancel their vacations to accommodate you.

Trump just attacked the Pope for his plan to visit Mexican border towns affected by drug cartel wars. Donald Trump slams Pope Francis for Mexico visit - UPI.com

Your point? Trickle down economics does not work?

This job can give you a bitter and black view of the world. I have a different view, and that is that with our collective strength we can and do make things happen.

It has been fifty years since MLK said that we need a form of Democratic socialism in this country. Dr King was organizing a union effort for sanitation workers in Memphis and a Poor Peoples March when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel.

I have said before and I will say it again. Transfer to a specialty area like OR, PACU, Endo or Cath lab where there are no visitors, the ratios are low, pt comfort is addressed appropriately, the patients are NPO and the food and beverage serv...

It's not the job, it's not you, it's them. You will never regret advocating for a patient. ER nursing has changed a lot and not for the better. Stick it out for a year then get the heck outta there.

Finish the consortium Critical Care course as that will open a lot of doors for you should you decide to try ER or PACU at some point in the future. If Med Surg is your jam that course will sharpen those judgement skills.

20,000 attended Sanders rallies in LA and Boston. People want social justice.

No one who works 40 hours per week should be living in poverty. We can not lift these people and benefit them with the policies of a rigged economy that creates low income families. There is a sleeping giant that has been awakened and that is the low...

All the more reason for them to join the Food Service Workers Union and SEIU and organize for a living wage and benefits. The biggest welfare recipient in the US is WalMart via foodstamps and Medicaid paid to their employees.

It was an eye opener. I have a better understanding of why so many Assisted Living residents present with septic shock.

Pay equity, a fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage, and education instead of incarceration will help these people get their lives together. No one should be financially stressed for decades for wanting an education. An earned Defined Benefit retire...

If the idea of your nursing peers being able to retire with dignity and respect, via an earned DB pension, makes you want to puke then that's pretty cold.