Donna Kelly Williams on Patient Ratios | National Nurses United Sponsored Segement | February 4-5, 2012 | Show 435
Nurses keep up the fight for RN to patient ratios…we should all be very glad they do! We thought we’d check in with our friends in Massachusetts who are working on legislation—so Casey and Dan visit with RN and president of Massachusetts Nurses Association, Donna Kelly Williams. […]
RN Mary Morrison on Public Sector Health Care Cuts in Fresno | National Nurses United Sponsored Segment | January 28-29, 2012 | Show 434
The assault on public healthcare workers continues—things are heating up in Fresno, California with major cuts proposed by that county’s Board of Supervisors. RN Mary Morrison joins us to talk about the proposed cuts and the potentially devastating impact on yet another community.
RN Dorothy Ahmad on Chicago’s Landslide Vote to Join NNU | National Nurses United Sponsored Segment | January 21-22, 2012 | Show 433
Joining Casey (Dan was excused to go to Chuck E. Cheese with seven 8-year olds) is RN Dorothy Ahmad. Dorothy is a CCU nurse at Stroger Hospital in Chicago. Recently registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s South Side voted by […]
Karen Higgins on the Gallup Ethics and Honesty Survey | National Nurses United Sponsored Segment | January 14-15, 2012 | Show 432
Moving on—Lost for many observers in last month’s end-of-the-year hullabaloo was the annual Gallup Honesty and Ethics Survey which by a wide margin again ranked nursing as the most honest and ethical profession.The survey found that 84% of Americans believe that nurses have “very high” or […]
Donna Smith with a 2011 Nurse Activism Year in Review | National Nurses United Sponsored Segment | January 7-8, 2012 | Show 431
She has been hailed as the “Meryl Streep of nurse activism”, our great friend and D.C. correspondent Donna Smith adds color commentary and perspective to our 2011 year in review. So much happened this past year: nurses joined the protests in Madison, Wisconsin; went on to […]
Sharon Tobin on Sutter Walk-Out Dec 22, 2011 | National Nurses United Sponsored Segment | Dec. 21, 2011 | Special Bonus Podcast
Sharon Tobin, RN and 23 year ICU veteran at SUTTER MILLS PENINSULA HOSPITAL talks with Nurse Talk about the upcoming one day walk-out at Sutter hospitals in California. What has happened to big hospitals? Sharon says Mills Peninsula in Burlingame was once a wonderful community […]
RN Jean Ross on Solidarity with Britain’s Nurses | National Nurses United Sponsored Segment | Dec. 10-11, 2011 | Show 430
RN Jean Ross, Co-President of National Nurses United, is a frequent guest on Nurse Talk. On this show she updates us on recent U.S. rallies organized by nurses to support their counterparts in Great Britain. On Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, over two million British workers […]
Deborah Burger on the Financial Transaction Tax and #Occupy | National Nurses United Sponsored Segment | Dec 3-4, 2011 | Show 429
Our friend RN Deborah Burger updates us on all things “Occupy,” progress on the financial transaction tax, the invisible SUPER COMMITTEE AND MORE…Deborah was one of many nurses from around the world that gathered at the recent G-20 summit in Cannes.
RN Karen Higgins: Yes on Robin Hood Tax | National Nurses United Sponsored Segment | Nov 19-20, 2011 | Show 428
Massachusettes RN Karen Higgins joins us. Karen is a good friend of ours and she always takes time out of her busy schedule to talk with us. As a matter of fact we want to make it perfectly clear that Karen was on her BREAK […]