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Nursing Ratios Save Lives | Beth Kean Segment | Show 240

Guest: Beth Kean Casey and Dan visit with the California Nurses Association’s Beth Kean about the recent ruling by a Superior Court judge that stopped the walk-out of over 12,000 UC Medical Center RNs. The RNs have been trying to call attention to the fact […]

Beth Kean Segment | Show 240

Guest: Beth Kean RN Casey Hobbs talks with CNA’s Beth Kean about the current campaign by CNA to force University of California Medical Centers to comply with RN to patient staffing ratios. Six months ago Registered Nurses filed a complaint with the Department of Public Health […]

Queen Meg Segment | Show 238

Guest: Queen Meg Find out what happens in the absence of scheduled guest “Queen Meg.” Who is Queen Meg? She just happens to be trying to buy her way into the California Governor’s office. BUT due to a scheduling conflict QM had to cancel and her […]

Mary McGibbon Segment | Show 237

Guest: Mary McGibbon Casey visits with Minnesota RN Mary McGibbon. Minnesota nurses just voted to strike last Wednesday. Over 12,000 nurses make this the largest strike of its kind in U.S. history. PLEASE—it’s not the money and benefits they are fighting over. It is the ability […]

Sandra Falwell Segment | Show 226BO

Guest: Sandra Falwell A great conversation with D.C.-based nurse practitioner and activist Sandra Falwell. Sandra has been in the profession for 40 years and shares some AMAZING stories about the “good ol days” or not so “good ol days” when she was once asked to give […]

Keith Merrit Segment | Show 236

Guest: Keith Merrit Join Casey and Dan for a conversation with Keith Merrit, one of the RNs at Cypress-Fairbanks Hospital in Houston who recently voted to remain members of National Nurses Organizing Committee-Texas, the state’s affiliate of National Nurses United, the national union and professional association […]

Trande Phillips Segment | Show 235

Guest: Trande Phillips RN-To-Patient Staffing Laws Reduce Patient Mortality. Casey Hobbs, RN host, has a conversation with RN Trande Phillips about a major new study led by one of the nations most eminent nurse researchers. The study verifies what nurses have long known:  California’s landmark RN-to-patient […]

Pension Bargaining in Minneapolis | Laurie Bahr Segment | Show 230BO

Guest: Laurie Bahr This week Casey and Dan talk with RN Laurie Bahr. Laurie has been an RN for 16 years and currently works in the Cardiac Surgical ICU at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. She sheds some light on current Pension Bargaining Efforts taking place […]