ZASHAGALKA RN

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    Canada's health system is as good or better than the US new research suggests

    ZASHAGALKA replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Ask those same Americans if they want to restrict their own coverage in order to do all this, and your polling takes a serious tank. Yes, I understand that pollyanna polls will always favor the...
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    "Scabs"

    ZASHAGALKA replied to lee1's topic in Travel

    I just can't see it as strike breaking. It's strike enabling. It's the hospitals that are in a bind. They MUST keep as much of their doors open as possible; serving the community is their claim to...
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    Co-worker stole my ID

    ZASHAGALKA replied to rmelvin's topic in General Nursing

    This is all so easy to deal with - without have to take people's licenses away, forever and ever, amen. First, random drug tests: roll 3 ten sided dice each month. Whatever numbers come up, if the...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    journalists are exempt from the travel ban. if he had enough press credentials to get into the 2004 republican national convention (and he did), then he has enough credentials to escape any sort of...
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    Canada's health system is as good or better than the US new research suggests

    ZASHAGALKA replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And THAT was at the height of the progressive movement. How on earth do socialists, I mean, er, progressives intend to pass such a thing TODAY when even FDR knew it was doomed to fail? First off,...
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    Canada's health system is as good or better than the US new research suggests

    ZASHAGALKA replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    There are two issues with healthcare at the moment: 1. Finding a way to provide coverage to 15% of the people too poor or too unconcerned to cover themselves. Yes, a good chunk of that is purposely...
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    Canada's health system is as good or better than the US new research suggests

    ZASHAGALKA replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Maybe you don't know how COBRA coverage works. You have a few months to purchase the coverage and once purchased, it backdates to the day you last had coverage. So, if you are between jobs, and it...
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    "Scabs"

    ZASHAGALKA replied to lee1's topic in Travel

    When emotions take over, logic goes out the window. That's just being human. ~faith,
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    Should a telemetry nurse be expected to float to a critical care unit?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    From a board perspective, floating is normally considered an employment issue and not a board issue. As a result, most boards of nursing simply state that you must be competent to do the job asked of...
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    Co-worker stole my ID

    ZASHAGALKA replied to rmelvin's topic in General Nursing

    The machine requires not just an ID, but a password. How did this co-worker get your password? You have to report this. Your license is now at risk. Anybody that would place your career at risk is an...
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    Different Stem Cell Treatments Both Produce Results For Two Similar Spinal Cord Injur

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Embryonic Stem cells served one purpose: the creation of pluripotent cells that could adapt. We can now do that with adult stem cells. The result: engineered stem cells without concern for rejection...
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    U.S. Health Care System 'Slowly Bankrupting Us,'

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Unfunded gov't liabilities that sap from economic growth is bankrupting America. It is the GOV'T with a 8.8 Trillion dollar debt. So, lets' just throw some more in. Lots more. In fact, lets triple...
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    Immigration News and Updates

    ZASHAGALKA replied to lawrence01's topic in Immigration Advice

    CIR being dead likely IS good news for nurses. As long as that monster was on the table, a side amendment somewhere offering some relief to immigrating nurses wasn't an option. Not saying it is now,...
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    Resolution Seeking Legislation To Require A 10-year BSN reintroduced in NJ

    ZASHAGALKA replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in New Jersey Nursing

    Same thing will happen as happened in NY: some legislator will introduce it as just another bill that gets tabled without debate. Such a bill will cater to the nursing organizations that pushed for...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I just don't get how MM actually expects his claims that Cuba has better health care can actually pass the smell test. Yep and that's why the nation depends on relatives from the States sending back...
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    How much did you start as a nurse and when.

    ZASHAGALKA posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just a curiosity thread: What was your first nursing salary and when did you command what I'm sure is going to be such high salaries? LOL. Me: 13.18/hr as an RN in San Antonio in 1993. Ironically, I...
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    Ever Been Called To Provide A Deposition

    ZASHAGALKA replied to kTIE's topic in General Nursing

    I've been to one. Plaintiff's lawyer asked me exactly 5 questions, the answer to each was: "If you look at my charting, the answer to your question is right here." (As I pointed to where I had charted...
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    How much do u like nursing? Scale of 1 to 10

    ZASHAGALKA replied to goldie66's topic in General Nursing

    6.234/10 I don't dislike nursing, but that isn't to say I'm head over heels either. However, I'm good at what I do. I've seen the good and the bad. 14 yrs worth, now. I took the paper boards. These...
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    more about retrogression

    ZASHAGALKA replied to tutugirlBSN's topic in International Nursing

    About the only positive thing you can take away from the Senate's current behind closed doors CIR package is that they are at least starting to talk about it. The final product, however, is likely...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/michael_moores_sickness.html "Is all that ails the U.S. health-care system that it's not run by a Communist dictatorship? That has long been a...
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    top 10 problems with HSA's

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    HSA is a bridge towards the catastrophic plan. It is obviously a better bridge for some than others. Here's the thing. This is where need can be directly addressed. It eliminates people that don't buy...
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    top 10 problems with HSA's

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    1. As part of a reform of healthcare, HSAs have great potential to reduce costs. The biggest problem with healthcare today is that it is 3rd party financed. If consumers don't care what a thing costs,...
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    top 10 problems with HSA's

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    HSA are a good PART of the solution. If you want to take them apart as not being able to solve all the problems of healthcare, in their own right, fine. You'd be technically correct, but you miss the...
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    Controversial Michael Moore Flick 'Sicko' Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The title though, you have to admit, is quite apt for a MM propaganda piece. Sicko. ~faith,
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    We don't need over-priced insurance - we need Guaranteed Healthcare.

    ZASHAGALKA replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Of course the price would come down. I would be willing to bet that, straight up visit, no paperwork, no insurance, would be something on the order of 40-50 bucks. But, ONLY if the docs had a reason...