ZASHAGALKA RN

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    Spacenurse: Critcial Care Preceptor & Nursing Activist

    ZASHAGALKA replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    I don't always agree with you, but I sure love to debate you. I'd love to do that over a few cups of joe someday. I can't wait till the '08 threads. . . and OH! Am I ever keeping my storehouse of...
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    Can Someone Be a Nurse Without Jean Watson??

    ZASHAGALKA replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

    Not only is your 'theory' a wonderful working model, it benefits from not having it handed down from on high by ivory tower elitists more interested in controlling nursing then defining it. Great...
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    What do experienced nurses expect from new nurses?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to alabama2's topic in General Nursing

    Be positive, assertive and persistent. It's a hard job and even though the experience mix is SUPPOSED to be there so that new grads have resources, in many cases, this is a job that can burn some out....
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    What do experienced nurses expect from new nurses?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to alabama2's topic in General Nursing

    Just to sound agreement: there is a world of difference between 'book' learning and real OJT learning. Don't presume that you know everything and don't try to 'impress' experienced nurses with all...
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    I just can't catch on

    ZASHAGALKA replied to Brooke13-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is a copy of the post youngatheart was talking about. This is some advice I've given in the past for new nurses (long): Look at the 'first year in nursing' forum. I think this is, indeed, a...
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    Do you believe doctors should teach nutrition instead of pharmecudical addiction?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to Kashia's topic in General Nursing

    In addition to: yes. Instead of: no. To the extent that scientifically validated homeopathic and nutritional treatments augment other scientifically validated treatments: great. To the extent that...
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    Uninsured patients increase in number....

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    except that, if you keep reading, the constitution grants congress limited, enumerated powers by which to ensure the preamble. and, a national healthcare plan is not an enumerated power of congress....
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    What Would You Change??

    ZASHAGALKA replied to Back2School@40's topic in Emergency

    Medicaid co-pays - at least as high as MY ER co-pays. Doctors that truly subscribed to the concept of 'stabilizing treatment' and turfed all non-emergencies to the PCP. ~faith,
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    does anyone really like nursing?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to karenne40's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Yes. But it's not perfect. Don't mistake that we are throwing out the baby with the bathwater just because we are commenting about how dirty the water is. ~faith,
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    Uninsured Adults are 25% more likely to die Prematurely

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm not nearly so rich. But, I DO have healthcare. You don't have to be rich to take responsibility for your own health. You need look no further then gov't housing or our ERs on any given night to...
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    Uninsured Adults are 25% more likely to die Prematurely

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Actually it IS a free market economy, which is what distinguishes us from failed communist systems. But, my argument is different: it's not that I CONDONE profiteering so much as I DESPISE the...
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    Uninsured Adults are 25% more likely to die Prematurely

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sorry, I'm just not interested in a 'cradle to grave' gov't Daddy. Pave a few streets, build a few tanks, deliver the mail and otherwise: LEAVE ME ALONE! (and actually, these days, I consider...
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    Uninsured Adults are 25% more likely to die Prematurely

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Compelling. Maybe they should make healthcare a higher priority in their lives then Cable TV?? Just a thought. The American Healthcare System isn't 'broke', it just requires some personal...
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    Uninsured patients increase in number....

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I guess it makes no sense to argue, in this day and age when the Constitution is a mere concept and not the actual founding of our law, to state that the Federal Gov't has no Constituional Power to...
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    Uninsured patients increase in number....

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    retracted. ~faith,
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    Uninsured patients increase in number....

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I doubt seriously that, if not for their gov't jobs, most politicians wouldnt have health insurance. And why do you suggest that Congress should be 'voted out' because people don't have health...
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    So you think you can negotiate for yourself....

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Enron's defined contribution plan included, like many such plans, employer matches that were represented as preferred stock options to employees. That made those contributions not under the control of...
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    Uninsured patients increase in number....

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Four key issues stand out, if you read the report: #1 the standard error is +/- 0.2 for both 2004 and 2005 statistics, and a difference is reported of 0.3 - that is within the standard of error (+/-...
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    So you think you can negotiate for yourself....

    ZASHAGALKA replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Non-union here. I have both a defined benefit AND a defined contribution plan. 403b AND 'Lay Employees Retirement Pension' (which means: non-nuns - they have their own plan). Unions have their place,...
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    Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    ZASHAGALKA replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I maintain that Wong Kim ARK specifically states that it only granted citizenship BECAUSE the jurisidictional test was met due to the parents legal right to be here. But, I would state that a more...
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    Are you satisfied with your first RN Job?

    ZASHAGALKA replied to RNSuzq1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You're welcome. I'm glad it helped. ~faith,
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    Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    ZASHAGALKA replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I, The plain text of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, The Supreme Court cases of Kim Wong ARK, Elks v. Wilkins, and Plyler v. Doe, and, The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, all disagree...
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    Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    ZASHAGALKA replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    you can deny that the 'and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;' is part of the text all you want. and you can deny the plain text that it is congress' right, a de facto additional enumerated...
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    Racism in the workplace

    ZASHAGALKA replied to staygold's topic in General Nursing

    “Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White—Separate and Unequal” Executive Summary, Kerner Report - The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. 29 Feb 1968....
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    Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

    ZASHAGALKA replied to hope3456's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    While you are correct that Wong Kim ARK granted citizenship despite the citizenship status of the parents, it WAS NOT despite the LEGAL status of the parents. In fact, the Supremes BASED their...