Cokie Giles Segment | Show 214
Guest: Cokie Giles Casey Hobbs RN Co-Host of Nurse Talk has a casual and informative visit with Cokie Giles. Cokie talks about the importance of organizing and the progress that has been made in her great state of Maine particularly since joining with CNA/NNOC. Cokie graduated […]
Patty Eakin Segment | Show 213
Guest: Patty Eakin Patty is the President of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals. As an emergency room nurse at Philadelphia’s Temple University, Patty has direct experience caring for thousands of uninsured patients who would have no place to go if they could […]
Health Care Hero | Rose Ann DeMoro Segment | Show 212
Guest: Rose Ann DeMoro Nurse Talk takes a few minutes to acknowledge a Health Care Reform Hero Rose Ann DeMoro, CNA/NNOC Executive Director and one of the Modern Healthcare Magazine’s 100 most influential people in health care for the past five years running.
A Real SiCKO | Donna Smith Segment | Show 211
Guest: Donna Smith REMEMBER MICHAEL MOORE’S MOVIE SICKO? Well, Donna Smith, whose family was featured in the movie will be with us and she is a power house! Donna took adversity and turned it into a passion to make insurance available to EVERYONE! She has a […]
Insurance Denials | Kim Kutcher Segment | Show 209
Guest: Kim Kutcher Casey interviews RN Kim Kutcher. Kim lives and works in Orange County and has been fighting her insurance company, Blue Cross, for 2 years. She needs back surgery to correct a critical injury (most likely work-related) and has been denied time after time […]
H1N1 Medical Practice Guidelines | DeAnn McEwen Segment | Show 208
Guest: DeAnn McEwen Casey talks with DeAnn McEwen about a recent H1N1 Swine Flu policy issued by California Nurses Association and National Nurses Organizing Committee. DeAnn is an RN and serves on the Board of Directors of CNA/NNOC. The policy deals with the medical practice guidelines. […]
Conversations from the 2009 CNA Conference | California Nurses Association Delegates Segment | Show 207
Guests: California Nurses Association Delegates Casey shares clips from conversations from the California Nurses Association Conference. The conference brought in over 1,200 RNs from all over the world.
Health Care Reform Myths Debunked | Linda Silas Segment | Show 206
Guest: Linda Silas Casey welcomes Linda Silas, RN, and president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions. We’ll talk to Linda about health care in Canada and dispel some of the myths that we have all become familiar with during the U.S. health care reform debate.