Shamira Aizza replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism
How is Universal health care going to change: 1. Births of Low Birthweight as a Percent of All Births - 2. Teenage Birth Rate ( - 3. Age-Adjusted Death Rate 4. Infant Mortality Rate 5. Age-Adjusted Death Rate by Malignant Neoplasms 6. Age-Adjusted ...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
Sure, but that's irrelevant. What is relevant is that this is just unions involving nursing for a very short time frame, and involves administration of the unions in every case. This is actually a miniscule representation of the rampant widespread co...
Former Navy Corpsman here, now an RN. You can take many of the pre-requisites on-line. I will reserve my opinion regarding RN correspondence nursing. You can also use your military experience and training for transfer credit; for example, I transferr...
Shamira Aizza replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism
Solves nothing, and it's unethical...medicare payments are pathetic and beaurocratic, and providers can opt out...and choose to accept only private insurance. I personally would choose to opt out and purchase private insurance, unless of course you w...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
Summary...unions are rampantly corrupt, and this is just instances involving unions that represent nurses. This took about 15 minutes to compile. "On November 23, 2005, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, an i...
Shamira Aizza replied to eager1hasbegun's topic in Pennsylvania
I'm no lawyer, but I'm a novice student of finance. Part 1. I doubt the results of your credit check had any bearing on the decision. If so, the hospital is legally required to notify you that the reason they didn't hire you is because of the results...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
This is not evidence of union improvement on insurance and high school graduation rates. You could just as easily tie this to the population of illegal immigrants or weather. It's not outrageous to point out that unions are unanimously corrupt; name ...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
Wikipedia? Alrighty then. We need corporations. Someone has to provide the services and products. Unions do not exist without them, except in the government, and we cannot function as a sole gov't proprietorship. The difference is that only some corp...
Shamira Aizza replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism
This is not new news; this administration has been doing this since 2000. This issue has been addressed properly by this administration, and politically by the opponents of this administration, hence the constant policy of criticism politics without ...
Shamira Aizza replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism
It was a long thread to read, so I might have missed something, but Singapore uses a Western-style system that places the majority of the responsibilty for health on the individual, and the system is largely privatized...maybe even more so than the U...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
1. If you can name a union, any union, it won't take long to find an instance of corruption involving that union. My statement is accurate. 2. Not sure of the point of comparing Norway to Minn. US nurses are largely the best paid nurses in the world,...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
It's not so simple as "every man for himself." When it comes to the workplace, people should be expected to show independent personal value instead of paying someone else to extort recognition from an employer. If folks don't want to work in specific...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
You like to post research, polls, and surveys, and there is nothing that suggests that MCH is even in the same league. Opinions of convenience, perhaps?
Shamira Aizza replied to phiposurde's topic in Flight
I apologize...I would've told you about this program originally, but I thought you were looking for something online. I think the Cleveland program is a great idea.
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
The Children's Health System of Atlanta is the number one ranked children's hospital to work for by Fortune. Top 10 in US News mag, and Child mag. HS graduation rates, and the rate at which minorities are killing each other in southern Fulton County ...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
My point being...if it's so great, why the need to unionize? Unions are not designed with the interests of the patients in mind. Seems to me that the more 'universal' the system, the worse the working conditions.
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
"Academic freedom" still has it's limits, which include avoiding controversial topics that are unrelated to the subject at hand. I seriously doubt that unionization was part of the course content, and I seriously doubt there would be similar toleranc...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
PS...I'm also unsure if I think it's proper for a nursing instructor to be applauding and promoting unions in the educational setting. The fair trade-off would be if it were permitted for another instructor, or a guest instructor to share an opposing...
Shamira Aizza replied to nursemike's topic in Union
Minnesota is just about one of the most liberal states in the USA with an alleged higher comparative percentage of insured people...I wonder if there's a correlation between that and the need to unionize the hospitals in order to make them tolerable ...
Shamira Aizza replied to jenafuzzy's topic in Flight
If you have concerns about your ability to tolerate flying, I'd suggest a ride-along. It would be unfortunate to aggressively prepare to be a flight nurse, only to find out that you cannot tolerate flying in a helicopter without puking.
Shamira Aizza replied to 1776patriot's topic in General Nursing
The phenomenon can certainly be individually driven. Compared to many Assoc. degree or BS degree entry level grads, nursing often has a comparatively higher entry-level wage, frequently with attractive incentives such as bonuses or loan payback. That...