Nurses

Why Nurses are Committed to the Fate of the Affordable Care

Dr. L. Toni Lewis | Posted 05.11.2012

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The Affordable Care Act is the law that empowers nurses, doctors, and healthcare workers, who actually deliver care, to better manage care so patients have the best possible outcomes. Nurses will no longer be simply reacting to critical care situations.

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Why Nurses Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health

Sheila Davis, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Nursing, Nurses, International Nurses Week, Public Health, Global Nurses, Global Health, Global Nursing, Health Technology, Impact News

Although our founding mother of modern nursing would be impressed with the health technology of today, I am sure she would be sorely disappointed by the ongoing invisibility of nurses, which she fought so hard to overcome during her lifetime.

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Recognizing and Thanking Our Committed Nurses

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Nurses Week, National Nurses Week, Nurses, Health Care, National Nurse for Public Health, Politics News

The National Nurse Act of 2011 has bipartisan support in Congress and is worthy of becoming law. As a Nation, we should recognize and thank our committed nurses by supporting this legislation.

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Invisible Wounds: First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden Announce Nursing Initiative to Care for Veterans With PTSD

Charles Howard | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Department of Veterans Affairs, Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, Mental Health, Veterans PTSD, Veterans Affairs, Impact News, Nurses, Joining Forces, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Military, Jill Biden, University of Pennsylvania, School of Rock, Ptsd, Health Care, Impact News

While every member of the health care team needs to be attuned to the possibility of PTSD and TBI, nurses must be particularly prepared to serve our military and their families with expert clinical care and innovative research on these most serious disorders.

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The Suffocation of American Democracy

Fred Rotondaro | Posted 05.29.2012

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How does the private citizen, the individual voter, compete with the forces that are subverting democracy? The simple answer is not very well indeed.

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'Thank You for Your Service'

William Spear | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Soldiers, Nurses, Police, Servicemen, Teachers, Parenting, Pilots, Appreciation, Gratitude, Express Gratitude, Mindfulness, In Gratitude, Gratitude For, Healthy Living News

How many of us have stopped to offer our thanks to others not in uniform but working below the radar and behind the scenes, dedicating their lives "in service" to a profession or cause?

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I Am Doctor. Hear Me Roar.

Priya Malhotra | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Scrubs, Women, Doctor, Chicago, Medical School, Women Doctors, Nursing, Nurses, Women in Medicine, Chicago News

On days I've worn scrubs in public, strangers often comment on my monochromatic cotton garb. The most common comment I get is this: "you must be a nurse."

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California State Nurses Take Home Big Paychecks As State Faces Budget Crisis

Posted 12.16.2011

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Picking up a few extra shifts apparently pays off in the Golden State. Forty-two California state nurses raked in more than $1 million since 2005 i...

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Obama Backs Controversial Pay Raise

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Minimum Wage, Labor, Video, Hilda Solis, Home Care, Work, Nurses, Labor Department, Overtime, Health Care, Unions, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In a move sure to please labor leaders and worker advocates, President Obama came out in support Thursday of a long-awaited change to la...

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Texas Tragedy Reminder of a Job for Robin Hood

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Robin Hood Tax, Wall Street, Nurses, Financial Transactions Tax, Economic Inequality, Income Inequality, Financial Trading Tax, Politics News

Enactment of a Robin Hood tax will be too late to help the families in Laredo and Kensington, Md., but for millions of other families falling through the cracks, a Robin Hood tax could be a vital lifeline.

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Time to Occupy Voting?: Progressive Upsurge Faces Tough Test in Ohio

Van Jones | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Public Employees, Collective Bargaining, Issue 2, Nurses, Police, Senate Bill 5, John Kasich, Teachers, Politics News

In the first major election since Occupy Wall Street swept the nation, Ohioans have a chance on Tuesday to repeal draconian restrictions on labor rights.

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Nurses Call the Question on Obama and Global Financial Transaction Tax -- Which Side Are You On?

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Obama, Financial Transaction Tax, Global Financial Crisis, Nurses, Nurses Ftt, Ftt, International Financial Transactions Tax, Tax International Financial Transactions, Politics News

With the constellation of the occupy protests and the broad international movement for the FTT, the moment for achieving the tax, and the critical revenue it can provide to help revive struggling economies, has never been greater.

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Why I'm My Father's Advocate

Julie Halpert | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Parents-Dads, Nurses, Hospital, Nursing Homes, Medical Errors, Doctors, Grandparents, Parents, Family, Women News

If you're a sick patient and you don't have an advocate for your care -- a squeaky wheel who will interrogate nurses and seek out doctors to get the story -- you're at a huge disadvantage.

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Health Care Costs At Center Of California Labor Disputes

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Video, Labor, Nurses, Health Care Costs, National Union of Healthcare Workers, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care, Unions, Labor Unions, Nuhw, California Nurses Association, Business News

More than 20,000 nurses and hospital workers will likely go on strike throughout California later this week, in one of the largest such work stoppages...

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What Health Care Can Learn From Auto Repair

James R. Knickman | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Diabetes, Community Health Workers, Nurses, Health Care, Healthcare Workers, Health Care Reform, Health Care Professionals, Nurse Practitioners, Scope of Practice, New York News

Many say we need to train more primary care doctors. This is a good long-term goal, but in the short term, we need to use all of our primary care professionals as efficiently as possible.

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A Labor of Love

Terrell Harris Dougan | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Marriage and Babies, Labor Day, Obstetricians, Clueless Husbands, Nurses, Labor, Women News

Labor Day ought to include celebrating every woman who has survived having a baby. In fact, I see flags of every nation flying for all women who've gone into labor, because it really hurts like hell.

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Nurses to Obama: Heal America, Tax Wall Street

Mary Bottari | Posted 11.04.2011

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As President Obama gets ready for his big jobs speech Thursday, America's nurses have a message for him.

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The Best Paying Jobs Of The Future

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 11.04.2011

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24/7 Wall St: If you decided on a new career path today, wouldn’t you like to know which jobs will be in high demand and pay the most once you were ...

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Chemo 101: A Web Success Story

Robert Schwab | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Small Business, Nurses, Oncology, Chemotherapy, Chemo 101, Online Business, Cancer, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care, Denver News

Kristin Gustafson started marketing even before she launched the website that keeps chemotherapy patients, nurses, doctors and caregivers abreast of the latest information available about life in the Chemo Room.

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Home Health Workers Are Sick of Being Shut Out of Labor Law

Michelle Chen | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Elderly, Aging, Poverty, Workers, Social Security, Nurses, Budget, Retirement, Nursing Homes, Immigration, Elder Care, Obama Health Care, Labor, Health, Health Care Reform, Home Health Aide, Medicaid, Medicare, Unions, Health Care, Politics News

We ought to ask ourselves what society owes to the workers with whom we entrust the health and comfort of loved ones. Your grandmother's home caregiver, who may be just like family, has a family of her own to take care of when she goes home.

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When the Medical Debate Becomes Personal

Stu Kreisman | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Nurses, Healthcare Costs, Nurse Pensions, Nurse Shortage, Healthcare Financing, Hospital, Nursing Pensions, Healthcare Debate, Healthcare Reform, Hospital Funding, Healthcare, Politics News

The past week a member of my family had a medical emergency. One gets to thinking and reevaluating priorities when faced with family crisis like this.

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Social Networking On The Front Line Of New Modern Medicine

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Social Media, Barbara Ficarra, Social Networking, Nurses, Medical Social Networking, Doctors, Technology, Health Care Social Media, Technology News

Social networking offers value. It allows doctors, nurses and other health care professionals to collaborate, connect and engage with the community and their colleagues.

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Nurses' Main Street Campaign to Rebuild America

Deborah Burger | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Labor, Health Insurance, Wall Street, Corporate Taxes, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, National Nurses United, Nurses, Budget Cuts, Politics News

Our message, which parallels the voices ringing out this year in the streets of Madison, Lansing, Columbus, and other embattled cities, is America's workers built this country, and we're going to take it back.

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Alabama Nursing Assistants At Center Of National Labor Dispute

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.23.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In late 2008, a small group of certified nursing assistants in Mobile, Ala., made a bid to unionize. Two and a half years later, the nur...

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Nurses On The Attack: Hospital Workers Fight Layoffs By Blasting Executives

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In recent months, the management at Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System has approached workers with a set of proposals that includ...

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