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Bedside Nurse - Nursing Round-Table
With Nurse Elisabeth
Nurse Elisabeth Hostsa round table discussion with other nurses on the issues at the bedside and in the hospital.
If you are a nurse, patient, or know someone who is a nurse or patient, the discussions in Bedside Nursing will serve you. Patients will gain insight to the many issues surrounding healthcare and the care received directly from the nurse. As a patient, talk about the presented issues in Bedside Nursing with a nurse.
Bedside Nursing desires nurses to converse about issues with colleagues, patients, family and friends. Sharing these thoughts only increases understanding of the profession of nursing which benefit the nurse and patient. The nurses in Beside Nursing want to educate the public about their vocation through conversation and discussion.
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Nursing Ratios and Safe Staffing
Nurse Elizabeth and her guests talk about nursing staffing levels. As a nurse they discuss safe staffing issues and how much time the nurse has for patient care. More on safe staffing.
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Medicare Cuts or The People's Budget
Nurse Elizabeth and her guests discuss Medicare and the proposed cuts to the program now and in the future. They look at both the Ryan's Budget proposal and the People's Budget. The two proposals take dramatically different approaches to balancing the budget and to Medicare.
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Nursing Salary vs. Executive Salary
The Nursing Round Table discussed nursing compensation and that factors that influence it. They also talk about the executive salaries in both hospitals and in the insurance industries.
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Nursing Workplace Injuries
In this episode of Bedside Nursing, Nurse Elizabeth and her guests talk about getting injured on the job. How back and shoulder injuries affect the nurse and the workplace. They also talk about how to prevent such injuries.
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Nursing Patient Expectations
In this episode of Bedside Nursing, Nurse Elizabeth, Nurse Andy and Generic Male Nurse discuss patient expectations. They look at the emotions and realities of emergency room care, the interruptions a nurse has to deal with and what the patients and there families expect.
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Bedside Nursing Patient Satisfaction
In this episode of Bedside Nursing, Nurse Elizabeth, Nurse Andy and Generic Male Nurse discuss nurse goals versus corporate goals and what may be sacrificed when both are not met. Also, patient satisfaction is touched upon.
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Nursing: Welcome to the bedside
Welcome to the first episode of bedside nursing. Nurse Elisabeth leads the conversion about workplace issues
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Nursing News
Well, almost everybody – weeks after granting NNU a permit for a march to and rally at Daley Plaza, the city of Chicago now wants to change our march route and move the rally from Daley Plaza to Petrillo band shell at Butler Field. Either NNU agrees, or else.
National Nurses United called the event to present an innovative solution to the economic crisis and austerity measures plaguing the G-8 countries: a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street financial speculation to raise critically needed funds to heal the U.S. and global economies.
The G-8 meeting has been re-located 700 miles away so what’s all the fuss? Losing that meeting and the Olympics, and now quarantining the nurses’ rally next to Lake Michigan, reveals a real leadership vacuum, with the whole world watching. As NNU Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro said to the Chicago media: “With this blatant effort to stifle dissent, Mayor Emanuel is exposing the city and our country to international ridicule and embarrassment. Is it really worth doing so just to please the Chicago Board of Trade, Mercantile Exchange and other Wall Street interests?”
We are mounting a legal challenge to the City of Chicago’s illegitimate ultimatum.
Regardless, the event goes on. In the spirit of Robin Hood, we'll stage a festive march starting at the Sheraton Downtown at 11am and holding a creative rally at noon. Special events include a skit showing how the G-8 really conducts their meeting, and we’ll hear from local organizations about how a Robin Hood Tax would aid their communities. International guests from G-8 countries will be joining the protest. We’ll conclude with songs from The Nightwatchman, Tom Morello
No matter what, nurses and allies will be seen and heard, declaring it is time for a tax on Wall Street, The Robin Hood Tax – not a tax on the people, a tax for the people. Join us!
It’s National Nurses’ Week! And like a lot of people across the nation who are touched and saved by the contributions of 3.1 million registered nurses, we want to say a simple THANK YOU.
Your work is not easy. You must have compassion and endurance to be there in the middle of the night, when your patient is struggling with pain. You must have patience and courage to fight that bureaucratic red tape that’s delaying your patient’s medications from the hospital pharmacy.
You must have the composure, medical knowledge, and technical skill to insert that central line into the distressed ER patient who needs medication. You must have an endless supply of “knock knock” jokes to comfort that frightened child.
Registered nurses are advocates above all else, whether as a patient advocate at the bedside or as a social advocate promoting an equitable healthcare system for all.
As the largest RN organization and union in the nation, National Nurses United is here to help RNs fulfill that role. We represent 170,000 registered nurses fighting to have the contributions and collective voices of nurses respected. We hear from our nurses every day that they are often the last line of defense for patient care in a system controlled by corporate interests.
That’s why this Nurses’ Week, NNU will not be sending out carnation bouquets, boxes of chocolates, coffee mugs, or stuffed teddy bears.
Instead, we continue to fight for what RNs really want: R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Respect is a healthcare system where nurses can care for patients to their best and highest potential.
Respect is safe staffing ratio laws and a healthcare system based on need and not the size of a person’s wallet.
Respect is quality healthcare and retirement for nurses and their families.
Respect is enacting a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street to help fund all this and more to provide a just economy for all Americans.
How can you help? What is the best way to thank a nurse in your life? We have a few ideas.
You could thank a nurse by joining thousands of us on the streets of Chicago on May 18th as we march to call for a tax on Wall Street to fund Main Street. If you can’t make it to Chicago, you could thank nurses by watching a webcast of the event and sending an encouraging note.
You could get involved in the struggle to expand Medicare to everyone. You can take action now by sharing a story of how guaranteed healthcare could have helped improve the health of you or a loved one. Tell your story here.
Go to the Friend a Nurse Facebook page and send “Thank you” gifts to nurses. You could give a nurse a small, virtual token of your appreciation. Here is a link to Gift a Nurse – a free Facebook app
Download the original tribute song to nurses written by singer songwriter, and NNU’s online communications specialist, Colette Washington.
Get the original nurse tribute song “Angel at My Side” FREE, written by singer/songwriter, and NNU communications specialist, Colette Washington.
SONG CHORUS:
I just want to thank you for fighting for my life
I just want to thank you for standing up for human rights
I just want to thank you for all the tears you've dried
Most of all I want to thank you for being the angel at my side
So this week, forget the donuts and, instead, give registered nurses the real support they want and need— a real collective voice in the fight for safer patient care.
By: Donna Smith
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What in the world? The registered nurses of National Nurses United cannot wait to welcome one of the world’s leading defenders of common people to their uncommon May 18th march and rally in Chicago. It’s time for Robin Hood to lend his legendary fame of days gone by to help with the nurses’ campaign to heal the modern-day financial traumas faced by real people at the hands of Wall Street.
It won’t be Sherwood Forest where Robin Hood and the nurses will be marching and rallying but through the streets of downtown Chicago, from the Sheraton Downtown at 11 a.m., to Daley Plaza a little after noon. With a sense of festive political messaging but also with the courageous clarity nurses bring to their advocacy for doing what is best for their patients, their communities and nation, and the world, the eyes of the world will turn to Chicago to learn what a Robin Hood Tax is and why such a tax is the right way to heal so many of the fiscal problems we face.
Grammy-award winning musician Tom Morello will be there making sure the nurses have all the music needed to rock the Plaza and infuse the day with sound and passion.
A Robin Hood Tax is a small tax levied on financial transactions – stocks, bonds, derivatives and other speculative financial activity – that raises revenue from Wall Street for the needs of Main Street. Just a small tax – a half-a-cent on a dollar of sales of those Wall Street transactions – could raise more than $350 billion per year to fund those things now being targeted for cuts or even elimination. Access to good jobs at a living wage, guaranteed healthcare for all, a quality public education, a clean and safe environment, retirement with dignity, adequate housing and food – all of these things that are the marks of a civilized society belong not on the chopping block labeled as austerity measures but held up for protections to be available for generations to come.
Nurses often see their patients at their weakest, most vulnerable moments when they provide honest assessments and needed care without hesitation and for the good of the patient. Now, as registered nurses see so many of society’s ills, and they cannot escape the realities in their own lives and communities, they offer a simple assessment and a clear path for healing. A Robin Hood Tax is the right way forward, and an idea whose time has come all over the world.
It’s simple. Heal America: Tax Wall Street. In Chicago, Robin Hood will join the nurses’ call. Will you?
