mobilsurgrn

They will be there soon. Get out your checkbook.... If CNA is your best hope- move.

Wow, you are a former HR Director and want to help organize a union in a right to work state. Did your training as a Hospital HR Director include any information about labor law? Florida has a number of great nursing unions like SEIU (service worker...

So that 20% is obviously smarter than the other 80%.. Where's the data? Which union sets the standard for what I make? Is there a study that shows that union nurses have better compensation (salary, benefits) after subtracting dues, than non union? O...

And on the same day, today, for the first time in CNA's history, (following a decert petition filed 1/13/06) nurses at Inland Valley Medical Center in Murietta, voted by a margin of 55/45 to remove the CNA as it's bargaining agent. Whether you are pr...

I am relatively new to this board but there seems to be a trend relative to Pro and Anti-Union posts and posters. Union membership in nursing is on the rise. Still there are more nurses who choose not to orgainize than who do. Will the trend continue...

I was in San Diego a few weeks ago. On the first night there, my boss and I went down to the Gaslight? area for dinner. We were standing on a street corner waiting to cross when a car swerved up onto the sidewalk and hit my boss (at > 40 mph). It ...

I may have misspoken. But if you look at the BLS report for 2004-2005, in the category for healthcare professionals, in which nurses are included, the rate of union representation rose from 12.4 to 12.6%. This may include a disproportionate share of ...

OK, so trying to navigate the polar(ized) ice here..For those of you who take the absolute, respective positions that unions are absolutely the best thing for nurses in California but they're not relevant or desired in Texas or other locations, is th...

I may be incorrect about this, and I will go back and look at my old (22 years ago) class notes, but I think required union membership (union security) isn't mandatory- even in non right to work states like California. Union security is bargained as ...

OK, I'll have to trust your experience on that...

I don't think it's directly about money. I think recognition may go away in a one-payor model. I completely agree that a mandatory insurance model would be a good first step and I would not complain about paying a fair share for others to have it.

It is nothing but spin and it was published over 10 years ago. But take the issue out of political context. The proposed legislation is rediculous. It is unsustainable and would never pass a means test. The bill's sponsor claims that the U.S. could p...

Fergus, as a person who lived in Canada, how would an all-access system make a difference in ED visits? Would people avail themselves to clinics or primary care physicians because it was free? Do Canadians, as a rule, take more respsonsibilty for pre...

One of the largest non- union hospital in southern Calif. is now under California Nurses Assn. control............... Under their control? Might not be far from true. How abjectly sad.

Spacenurse, what I said was "So, as messed-up as our model is, I think advocating for a one-payor system is a waste of time, effort and money and that's a shame." What I meant, and I can understand the misinterpretation, was that all the money, time ...

I agree that we will not have a universal healthcare system. There are way too many companies that would essentially be obsolesed and who are major political contibutors, year after year. Also, the man who is third or fourth in the succesion line to ...

issues like this get where they are (in an or suite) for one reason. leaders have lost the ability to lead. twenty years ago, many leaders rose to their positions because their peers, surgeons and hospital leaders recognized that person’s ability to ...

I have a friend who has been on the BON in ND for many years. Her name is Claudia Dietrich, she is the Director of Surgical Services at St. Alexus MC in Bismarck. She would probably do a quick phone interview with you. She is a former nursing instruc...

If you have a sponsor, call them. Share what was said and tell 'em how you fell about it. If you haven't already, you will get a chance soon to process all of this in a very loving, supportive environment. Doing step work is the wonderful gift that o...

I do hope you will reconsider finding a satisfying career where you will not need to meet the requirements set up for professionals. There is a reason why we are "held to a higher standard." WOW!! What a self-righteous, disengenuous thing to say. I a...

Sorry, the link for HCA is www.hcahealthcare.com

List of all RB schools: http://www2.state.tn.us/health/Boards/Nursing/RN.htm I am a longtime Nashville resident. Talk to nurse recruiter at Vanderbilt, they are very creative and it is a great program, costly but I hear they can make things happen. O...

25 years ago when I was orienting as a circulating nurse, my preceptor put in in perspective for me on the first day. "You are the patient's sensory system while they are asleep. You get to know their individual needs by asking good questions in the ...