The Importance of Nurse Activism | Support for California Nurses Strike
Caring for those in need includes standing up for patients against corporate greed and disinterest in the human costs of cuts in staffing and services. There are 23,000 nurses on the street for theCalifornia Kaiser and Sutter Health strike doing just that. We’re with them. We’re rewinding […]
NNU’s Donna Smith and Funny Lady Lynn Ruth Miller | Sept. 17-18, 2011| Show 422
Donna always brings us up to speed on the issues that are important…at least to us they are. We’ll get an update on the nurses’ Main Street Campaign (more about that at nationalnursesunited.com), the state of Social Security and Medicare, a Wall Street sales tax […]
Bats In Austin. Bats In D.C. Bats In The Studio. | Show 422
Coming Up On Nurse Talk…we welcome two great friends on the show, NNU legislative organizer and health care activist Donna Smith then writer and comedian Lynn Ruth Miller.
Donna chats with us from Austin, Texas–you know, the home of one of the largest bat caves around…and its right downtown!! And yes…you can see the Texas State Capitol from the cave! Donna always brings us up to speed on the issues that are important…at least to us they are. We’ll get an update on the nurses’ Main Street Campaign, the state of Social Security and Medicare, a Wall Street sales tax and much more.
A Salute to Nurses | Thank You, Thank You Very Much
A special thank you to all of our listeners, the nurses who save lives and make a huge impact on humanity every day. Thanks too to our sponsors the California Nurses Association, National Nurses United, the Massachusetts Nurses Association, our media partner Laura Flanders and GRITtv and our strategic partner Nurse Together. Without you all we might be driving down Route 66 in our RV waxing about Nurse Talk as something that might have been.
We salute you nurses. Please enjoy this song by San Francisco area singer and songwriter, Colette Washington, Angel By My Side and an encore presentation of Nurse Talk featuring a great nurse memoir and interview with an 82-year-old nurse who is still helping people.
RN Donna Kelly Williams and Greg Batte | Show 421
We visit with Massachusetts Nurses Association‘s president, RN Donna Kelly Williams. Donna brings us up to date on all things Mass including the upcoming Day Of Action, the continued fight for fair and equitable RN-to-patient ratios, The Main Street Campaign, and the Mass Nurses Association’s […]
Marsha Podd, The Baby Whisperer and Rose Ann DeMoro | August 27-28, 2011 | Show 420
We visit with RN Marsha Podd, aka the Baby Whisperer, who has written a book called Secrets of a Baby Nurse. The book is getting rave reviews and if you know of anyone that is expecting a child, already has a baby or toddler or […]
Coming Up on Nurse Talk | August 27-28, 2011 | Show 420
Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director National Nurses United
“I always knew women would lead a revolution in this country.”
In studio with RN Marsha Podd, aka the Baby Whisperer
Former Senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell wins the Nurse Talk Square Needle Award
Dan’s in Hawaii and Pattie sees an opportunity!
RN Deborah Burger on Day of Action, NY Times Best Selling Author Steve Berry | Aug 20-21, 2011 | Show 419
This week on Nurse Talk Casey and Dan visit with RN and National Nurses United Co-President, Deborah Burger. We chat with Deborah about the Day Of Action as she makes her way home from an important nurses’ rally in Michigan. The purpose of the Day […]
RN Katie Oppenheim on University of Michigan Health System | August 12-13, 2011 | Show 418
Michigan RN Katie Oppenheim talks about serious concerns for patients of the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS). Four-thousand registered nurses at the UMHS, represented by the Michigan Nurses Association/National Nurses United, held a press conference Tuesday at the University of Michigan about the future […]