Safe Lift Bill and Leprechaunism
Safe Lift Bill We’ll also visit with Marti Smith, RN Government Relations Lead for the California Nurses Association. Marti will talk about why hospitals are not complying with California’s Safe Lift Bill (AB 1136) passed in January of 2012. Is this something we non-medical people […]
Best Of Nurse Talk Shorts | Nursing Without Borders and the Affordable Care Act
Nursing Without Borders This week we take on a controversial issue, and in doing so we learn ALOT (as if that never happens!). Healthcare Journalist Heather Boerner joins us to talk about an article she recently wrote for National Nurses United Magazine. The article, “Nursing Without Borders,” provides an […]
Nurse Shorts | Questions for Casey, and Michael Lighty on the Affordable Care Act
A look at the concerns about The Affordable Care Act from those who work for hospital corps. This week Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy for California Nurses Association, joins us to talk about why he thinks the Affordable Care Act is “Bad Medicine” for nurses. […]
Nurse Talk Short | Nursing Without Borders and the Affordable Care Act
Nursing Without Borders This week we take on a controversial issue, and in doing so we learn ALOT (as if that never happens!). Healthcare Journalist Heather Boerner joins us to talk about an article she recently wrote for National Nurses United Magazine. The article, “Nursing Without Borders,” provides an […]
Best Of: RN Donna Kelly Williams on Safe Nurse-Patient Ratios
Massachusetts Nurses Take “Safe Staffing” to the People! Massachusetts Nurses Association President, Donna Kelly Williams RN talks about a newly sponsored ballot measure campaign to fight for patient safety and protection. As most of you who listen to our show already know, the national fight […]
Best of Nurse Talk Shorts | Victory for Nurses and Breast Exams with Implants.
Victory for Nurses in Northern California! …AND a victory for nurses across the country! Last week, a federal administrative law judge with the National Labor Relations Board handed nurses a victory, finding Sutter Bay East Hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area engaged in illegal […]
Best Of Nurse Talk Shorts | Obamacare Myth-ectomy and Technology Without Common Sense.
Myth-ectomy. It’s coming! Congress tried to stop it thirty-seven times! The Affordable Care Act is on track and headed for the station and you need to know the FACTS. Is it good? Is it bad? Will Grandma meet her demise in front of a “death panel?” Will it […]
Nurse Talk Short | SIRI Doesn’t Know ACA and Safe Staffing in Hospitals!
SIRI Doesn’t Even Know What the Affordable Care Act Is! Another 42% of U.S. citizens don’t either as the clock ticks closer to October 1st: the date for the State Insurance Market Places (aka SIRI) starts selling affordable insurance to some of the 40 million […]
Best of Nurse Talk Shorts | Global Nurses United and ACA FACTS
Global Nurses? Yes, It’s Necessary! We mentioned a few weeks ago that we attended the National Nurses United Conference here in San Francisco. We met nurses from most of the states and from over 13 other countries. It’s very interesting to talk to nurses from around the world […]