Karen Buxman laughs it up | Show 218
Brace yourselves! Karyn Buxman is in the house. Karyn is an RN, MSN, and publisher of the Journal of Nursing Jocularity, a humor magazine for RNs. If you are allergic to laughter…don’t say we didn’t warn you! CNA/NNOC’s Donna Smith sets the record straight about […]
Laughter Yoga Training–RNs Get CEUs!
Laughter is the Best Medicine! Start your New Year Laughing with 12 free CEs for RNs!Certified Laughter Yoga Leader TrainingDo it for yourself. Share it with others.Saturday. January 23. 1 – 6 p.m.Sunday. January 24. 10 – 6 p.m.UCSF Osher Center for Integrative MedicineThe Circle […]
The Kitchen Sink | Show 217
Talk about your kitchen sink…Well, we do cover a lot of topics this week on Nurse Talk. Casey will talk with RN Jean Ross who is the newly appointed National Nurses United Co-President. Jean will talk about the new “super union” and what this means […]
American Journal of Nursing: New National Nurses Union Forms — But What’s It Mean to You?
“Given the current push to reform health care, this new union could make a difference for both nurses and our patients. As a nurse now focused on quality improvement, I would like to see nursing unions bring out the best in nurses by promoting compliance […]
Why Is This The Time for an RN Super-Union?
From the new nurses’ super-union, National Nurses United. A PDF of this flyer can be downloaded to pass along to colleagues.Nurses from coast to coast have yearned for a powerful, national movement of direct-care RNs to strengthen our voice at the bedside and in the […]
San Francisco Chronicle: Nurses unions join together for more clout
“Nurses from three unions, including the powerful California Nurses Association, have founded a new national union to influence national health care policies and try to extend California’s patient ratio law into other states.Organizers said the 150,000-member National Nurses United, the largest professional union for registered […]
Nursing Unions Are About To”Go Hard Or Go Home.”
LaTonia Denise Wright of Nursing-Jurist.com writes about the new nurses super-union, National Nurses United, “the nursing unions are about to ‘go hard or go home.’ Don’t know what this slang means just Google it!… A nursing revolution or the evolution of nursing, maybe? Changes are […]
Present at the Birth: The National Nurses Movement by Chico David RN
Present at the Birth: The National Nurses Movementby Chico David, RNI’m writing from Phoenix Arizona where I just spent the morning with hundreds of nurses from around the country finalizing the creation of the new nurses union that will transform health care in America: National […]
Unanimous Vote Creates Largest RN Union in U.S. History
For Immediate ReleaseDecember 7, 2009RNs Pledge Major Boost in Organizing, Voice in CongressPHOENIX – To standing cheers, delegates to the founding convention of the National Nurses United (NNU) today unanimously endorsed the creation of the largest union and professional organization of registered nurses in U.S. […]