heron ASN, RN

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    Phasing Out ADN?

    heron replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated nursing school in 1972 and have heard this same caveat ever since then. They might have better success in promoting the BSN if tuition was affordable without crippling
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Considering your record of dismissing concerns that subsequently prove to be well founded, not taking this post particularly
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Well, we better figure something out quick. Google "climate refugees". The pressure of migrating populations on existing national borders is likely to get way worse before it gets
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I remember when the same thing happened in Alabama a few years ago (around the time Arizona passed their "papers, please" law). The definition of insanity ... Right around the same time I...
  5. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Actually, it confirmed my suspicion that conservatives will eventually get tired of a moronic, sociopathic and, above all, ignorant phony claiming conservative credentials. MAGA =/=...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I finally took a look at the first few articles on a quick search. (Nowhere near exhaustive, I know.) I get a distinct impression that Penny, his attorneys and Bragg are trying to keep the...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Yanno ... whenever someone tells me to not look over there, I tend to look over there. Thank
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Found in my facebook feed: "Before we work on Artificial Intelligence ... Why don't we do something about Natural
  9. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    So ... what is the fiscally responsible thing to
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I've been avoiding stories about shootings lately. It hurts to see so many people thrown into the media spin
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    If you go to usafacts.org and search "cost of government shutdown", you'll find a whole list of articles on the subject. The whole debt ceiling debate is really over fiscal responsibility and who...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    And we're not talking about that,
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Not news ... ask any Native and you will find that indigenous identity has been romanticized and co-opted since the days of Kit Carson's wild west show. It does provide an interesting take on the...
  14. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Your
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I think it's definitely time to tweak EMTALA. I also think that transportation is a huge part of the misuse problem. It doesn't seem to get discussed much. Don't get me started
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    "All charged to the taxpayer" - conveniently editing out the billions of taxpayer dollars stolen by vendor fraud. Dollars better used. to finance tax cuts for the top 0.01%,. After all, profits...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Meanwhile, one of my favorite lefty talking heads on YouTube has announced that Jack Smith is asking about trump's foreign financial dealings while President. The child labor debate is getting...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    A "narrative" is essentially an attempt to explain the world as one sees it. I think the narrative you dismiss out of hand comes the closest to explaining what's been going on in healthcare. The...
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Formatting on my phone is a
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Your pejorative language suggests that you hold the poor and elderly responsible for the proliferation of unnecessary medical interventions. A fact stated with no context is either wrong or...
  21. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    You asked "how so?" when I wrote that our respective assessments of the state of healthcare are likely to be very different.
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Kind of puts the recent SJC uproar in a whole n'other light. Regulatory capture at its
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Hope they didn't just shoot themselves in the
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    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The original sales pitch for for-profit healthcare was that the profit motive and market competition would automatically improve quality of care, increase access and keep prices down. So how's...
  25. heron

    What caught your attention in the world today?

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Thanks. Back in the early eighties, we had a national network of neighborhood health centers. It was maybe a ten minute walk away from my apartment. I was able to get my son treated for an asthma...