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By: Change of Shift: Volume Three, No. 20 // Emergiblog

Change of Shift: Volume Three, No. 20 // Emergiblog — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:15:31 +0000

[...] Jones is mad and she lays it on the line in a post that references her namesake: Lessons From Mother Jones.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:20:01 +0000

Well, I’ve been represented by CNA since back when it was our professional nursing association. I have good pay, good benefits and only worked in one hospitals with old biddies worried about seniority.

They get over one thousand dollars a year from me. I have no say over how that money is spent. No say over any political use of the money. None.

For many months I received a constant barrage of full color brochures, every day, from both organizations each dissing the other big time. I wonder how much money was spent on those mailings.

As you can see, I’m happy with my work situation but am not happy about having no say over what is done in my name with a very substantial amount of money every year. And what was the purpose of the big, costly fight only to have them turn around and develop this miraculous partnership.

Sorry. I’m cynical. They will represent you but you will have no say in how they do it.

By: tammy swofford

tammy swofford — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:29:11 +0000

Stents in their vessels. Hell, you know what I mean!

Smile

Tammy

By: tammy swofford

tammy swofford — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:28:08 +0000

One of the issues which plagues the market is that hospitals are now only for the sickest of the sick. Even with G.I. Lab, the healthy clients from our G.I. group receive their procedures in an office building down the street. We get the colonoscopy patients with obesity, co-morbidities and five stents in their heart. W rarely get arthroscopic procedures now. They also, go to an outpatient facility across the street. We do…. get total joints. Nurses are working harder then ever and the physical demands for lifting non-ambulatory or barely ambulatory clients is increasing. One in five R.N.’s now leave the bedside within a year of graduation.

Tammy Swofford, R.N.

By: Mad Mike

Mad Mike — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:18 +0000

Each time I come here MJ I marvel at how far you have come. I just registered my domain the other day and am going to make the switch from blog to website, if I can figure out how to do it. Wonderful job you have done and I remember you when…..

By: Chuck R.

Chuck R. — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:13:24 +0000

The “nursing shortage” refers to the shortage of RN’s who are willing to work for minimum wage. That’s it. I’ve been hearing about this since 1990. It’s not a real shortage, it’s a shortage of highly trained people working for peanuts. The same thing is going on in the software developer industry. I worked hard and sacrificed to get an education so I could be a software engineer and have a stable life. But I just get paid peanuts. And I’m good at what I do. But it’s rare that an employer will pay for a highly skilled engineer.

Employers have to cut costs, and they get what they pay for: low skilled engineers who end up making a project cost more because the managers couldn’t hire the real experts. If you hire an expert you really get your money’s worth because they design the system so well. This goes for any kind of engineer, whether software, civil, bridge, or other.

By: Kathy Quan

Kathy Quan — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:52:30 +0000

AMEN!!! We MUST stand up for ourselves now more than ever or we stand to lose the little ground we have made in the past 35 years. And we must be organized about ti. The best way to do that is through strong unions.

Thanks Mother Jones for this terrific post!!! I will link to it as soon as I get my blog updated.

By: Nurse K

Nurse K — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:30:34 +0000

Well our nurses are so well-paid and we’re so well-staffed compared to other hospitals, that the nurses almost voted to strike last contract over something completely trivial, like paying an extra $500/year for health insurance or something like that. Yeah, ruin my credit rating for the next 7 years so I don’t have to pay an extra $500/year. That makes a whole lot of sense.