Nurse Talk

Laugh, learn and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show, States of Grace, from Doctor to Patient and Back Again…San Francisco Internist Dr. Grace Dammann is with us. And, to coin the phrase “it takes a village” is no understatement. Nurses and Medicare for All supporters are mobilized and fired up. Don...

The Green New Deal (GND) is a set of proposed economic stimulus programs in the United States that aim to address climate change and economic inequality. ... The Green New Deal combines Roosevelt's economic approach with modern ideas such as renewable energy and resource efficiency. At least according to Wikipedia that is.

Dr. Grace Dammann’s life was forever altered when a driver crashed head-on into her car on the Golden Gate Bridge. After a seven-week coma and numerous surgeries, Grace miraculously regained consciousness, with her cognitive abilities almost entirely intact, but her body left shattered and severely disabled. In 2015 her friends Mark and Helen Cohen released the award-winning documentary States of...

Laugh, learn and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show, after decades of fighting, nurses join thousands to gather in the nation’s capital for Representative Pramila Jayapal’s launch of the New Medicare for All bill, a bill that has strong support from a broad coalition. And RN, NP USF Professor Barba...

Listen to this week’s Mini Podcast with RN and California Nurses Association board member Sandy Redding. Nurses national campaign for Medicare for All is off to a great start with thousands attending barnstorm meetings.

Nurses across the country are off to a great start with a grassroots movement to demand Medicare for All. Thousands of people interested in supporting the movement attended over 150 barnstorms from Maine to California where they shared their healthcare stories and learned about the new Medicare for All Act that will be introduced in Congress by Representative Pramila Jayapal. RN and California Nur...

Laugh, learn and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show, author and President of Social Security Works, Nancy Altman is on a mission to debunk the manufactured myths about Social Security and she uses Facts to do it! And as nurses and other influential organizations and labor movements launch a nationa...

Laugh, learn, and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show.... writer, filmmaker, and social activist Jennifer Nix share's how she saved 90% on her medications while on vacation in Spain... and Director of Nurse Practice Safety Gerard Brogan talks about the 15th anniversary of California Nurse Patient Ra...

In the era of so called Fake News, it's critical to know and research our news sources. That’s why Tarbell is expanding its excellent coverage. Tarbell is supported by readers and not influenced by politics or corporate donations. With us for this podcast is Tarbell Investigative Journalist Donna Shaw. Donna recently wrote about dangerous drug shortages that threaten patients in ER’s, Cancer Clini...

Laugh, learn and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show.... Tarbell Investigative Reporter Donna Shaw reports DANGEROUS DRUG SHORTAGES THREATEN PATIENTS IN ERS, CANCER CLINICS AND AMBULANCES. DANGER IN DISGUISE…why nurse licensure compact seems like a good idea BUT not so fast! All this and more on the...

Ask yourself, who do you trust to make decisions about who should be allowed to practice nursing in your state? Do you trust your state’s nursing board, or would you trust an organization with little oversight and a comfy relationship with corporate sponsors such as big pharma? That question is central to our discussion today. RN and Nurse Practice Specialist for National Nurses United, Michelle M...

With us today is Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer. The primary purpose of his organization is to increase and coordinate grassroots labor support for a Single-Payer Medicare-for-All healthcare system in America. Mark, like many of us believes health care is a fundamental human need and that the labor movement must take a leading role in the fight for healthc...

The Truth about Social Security: The Founders' Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings. That's quite a title and author and President of Social Security Works, Nancy Altman means every word of it. In the book she uses the founder's own words to debunk myths and reveal the truth about the most popular and successful government program in our nation's history.

This week Healthcare In America Senior Correspondent Donna Smith introduces medicare4all.org. The site is sponsored by National Nurses United and Our Revolution and is a great resource for people across the country to get involved in the grass roots campaign. Astronomical health care costs and lack of access continue to drive individuals, families, and businesses past their breaking point while in...

Nurse Talk Mini Podcast As Heard During The Thom Hartmann Program by Nurse Talk

Writer, filmmaker and social activist Jennifer Nix joins us to share about how she saved 90% on her anti-rejection medications while on vacation in Spain...and how her story led her to Bernie Sanders's Senate office to meet his powerhouse social media team. Jennifer had a kidney transplant in 2009 and has written extensively about her experience.

California’s historic first-in-the-nation safe staffing ratios, sponsored by the California Nurses Association, took 13 years to win. The legislation has now been in effect since January 2004 despite continued efforts from the hospital industry to overturn the law. Safe RN to patient ratios have been proven to improve the quality of care and nurse recruitment and retention in California hospitals....

Laugh, learn and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show.... RN and Co-President of National Nurses United, Deborah Burger gives us the "state of the nurses union". In case you are wondering they are 150,000 strong and growing and they are fighting for their patients both at the bedside and in their com...

Introducing, the Old Coots. That’s right they’re the self-proclaimed Old Coots giving Bad Advice and they are with us today. They aren’t a household name yet but they are popping up everywhere because---well---people need advice and apparently, they don’t care if it’s good. It all started when a group of retired friends who meet every Saturday morning at a Salt Lake City deli were growing tired of...

This week we share one of the most critical Nurse Talk Radio interviews of 2018---The State of the Nurses’ Union with RN and Co-President of National Nurses United, Deborah Burger. At a time when the Republican Party is set on the destruction of organized labor in this country National Nurses United (the largest Union of Registered Nurses with over 150,000 members) is gaining members and momentum...

Join Nurse Talk Radio and Progressive Voices for a conversation with RN and Co-President of National Nurses United, Deborah Burger. National Nurses United is the largest organization of nurses in the U.S. with over 150,000 members. Deborah shares with us "the 2018 state of the nurses’ union", which includes successful workplace safety and RN to Patient ratios state and national legislation and the...

Laugh, learn and listen to Nurse Talk Radio on Progressive Voices Tune In. You can download the PV APP @www.progressivevoices.com. This week on the show.... Executive Director for Healthcare NOW, Ben Day. Ben talks about the mission of his organization and the national campaign for Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. And our Healthcare in America segment includes a $69 billion-dollar wedding a...

Ben Day is no stranger to the National Single Payer movement. He currently serves as Executive Director of Healthcare NOW and prior to taking on this role he was the Executive Director of MASS-Care, the Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care, for eight years. Ben talks about Healthcare NOW's broad coalition (including National Nurses United) of single payer supporters mobilizing in mo...

Author Suzanne Gordon has written an extraordinary book called Wounds Of War How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, And Hope To The Nations Veteran's. Ms. Gordon addresses the current issues of privatization and the unwillingness the current VA Secretary is demonstrating to allow RN's to take part in their rightful collective bargaining process and ultimate protections of their VA patients.

Author and journalist Suzanne Gordon joins us for a two-part interview about her new book Wounds Of War, How The VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to The Nations Veterans. Suzanne does an extraordinary job describing how VHA(Veterans Health Administration)tasked with a challenging patient population---does a better job than private-sector institutions. She also talks about efforts to privatize...