Nurse Talk

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 privati...

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.... award-winning journalist and author Suzanne Gordon. Suzanne's new book is Wounds Of War, how the VA Delivers Health, Healing, And Hope To The Nation's Veterans. "Wounds of War highlights what the average American rarely gets to see in the news...

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No one sets the record straight on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid better than Alex Lawson. Alex, the Executive Director of Social Security Works say's Mitch McConnell actually told the truth a couple of weeks ago when he said the Republicans were going to cut the big three. "No doubt about it, they're coming for your Medicare and Social Security, something they've wanted to do since 1935"....

Last month we shared the story of RN’s from Johns Hopkins Hospital declaring their intent to organize a union with National Nurses United, the nation’s largest organization of Registered Nurses. We also talked about the aggressive campaign waged by Johns Hopkins against the nurses right to form a union, which is why the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently found merit to the charges brou...

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, Jean Ross. Jean recently accompanied NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo to the U.K.'s World Transformed Festival. Also, healthcare for all activist and Senior Correspondent for Healthcare in A...

Here's this week's Mini Podcast with RN and Co-President of National Nurses United Jean Ross. Jean recently accompanied NNU Executive Director Bonnie Castillo to the U.K. to visit with Labor Leader Jeremy Corbyn at The World Transformed Festival in Liverpool.

Our guest for this podcast is RN and Co-President of National Nurses United, Jean Ross. Jean is a frequent guest on Nurse Talk and in her capacity of Co-President of the nation’s largest organization of nurses, she travels throughout the country and world working on behalf of RN’s and their patients for safer hospitals, safe patient staffing, collective bargaining and Expanded and Improved Medicar...

Here's this week’s Nurse Talk Mini Podcast with Johns Hopkins Hospital RN Danny Andazola. Nurses at the hospital reached out to National Nurses United (NNU) to help form a union. NNU is the nation’s largest organization representing over 150,000 bedside nurses. Johns Hopkins nurse’s top concerns are staff retention and patient care.

As RN's at Johns Hopkins Hospital continue their campaign to form a union, the hospital pushes back with intimidation tactics and a campaign of disinformation. “Many units are hemorrhaging experienced nurses, which puts our patients in danger and our licenses at risk. When one nurse has to double their patient load, so their coworker can take a much-needed break, our patients are in danger. When n...

This week we're talking about Hospice grappling with stolen meds during this time of the Opioid crisis. It is critical that hospice patients receive pain meds to comfort them but in some cases the meds are being stolen by family members or others. What can be done? And the GOP case against the ACA's preexisting condition protections is being heard in a Texas court room. What happens if they prevai...

With us this week is National Medicare for All Healthcare Activist and former Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, Donna Smith. Donna and her husband Larry were featured in Michael Moore's famed 2007 movie SICKO. Listen as we discuss a new Poll that reveals Healthcare is the No. 1 issue for voters. And with Open Enrollment coming up there are changes you will need to know about....

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.... Acid Reflux in Children? We’ve all heard about the perils of Acid Reflex but now Dr. Jamie Koufman talks about it affecting children.. and what is #REDforFED? Three Executive Orders issued by Trump in May cause nurses and Government Employees...

More than 100 million American adults suffer from acid reflux driving nearly $15 billion in annual sales of anti-reflux drugs. But can children get acid reflux too? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Symptoms in children can include poor sleeping, noisy breathing, allergies, ear infections, asthma, croup, throat infections, and a "chronic cold." Often presenting as silent respiratory reflux, which i...

Ahead of Robert Willkie’s confirmation as the new Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Trump loyalists at the agency took aggressive steps to purge or reassign staff members perceived to be disloyal to President Trump and his agenda for veterans, according to multiple people familiar with the moves. The reshuffling marked a new stage in a long estrangement between civil servants and Tr...

Join Us for Part One of Nurse Talk Radio’s Interview with RN and Candidate for Governor of Minnesota, Erin Murphy. National Nurses United, the nation's largest union of registered nurses, last week announced its endorsement of RN and State Representative Erin Murphy for Governor of Minnesota. “We are endorsing Erin because she’s a proven champion fighting for all Minnesotans,” said Jean Ross, RN,...

Part Two of Nurse Talk Radio's Interview with Erin Murphy. National Nurses United, the nation's largest union of registered nurses, last week announced its endorsement of RN and State Representative Erin Murphy for Governor of Minnesota. “We are endorsing Erin because she’s a proven champion fighting for all Minnesotans,” said Jean Ross, RN, Co-President of National Nurses United and resident of B...

You know the saying “follow the money” and it looks like we have a trail that starts with the big health insurance companies and is now making its way to Democrats on the hill. The reason this trail is so interesting is—historically health insurers have given much more to Republicans rather than Democrats. Why the change? Wendell Potter-- founder of Tarbell, the pioneering reader funded journalism...

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

GOP has been working on proposed cuts to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid---1.5 trillion dollar’s worth of cuts to be exact. Does that number sound familiar? Of course, that's what the tax giveaway to the top one percent cost us. Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works is with us and he says, "the magnitude of these proposed cuts will change Medicare as we know it".

Here's a Nurse Talk Mini Podcast with a business and personal case for Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. Check it out.

As predicted the Supreme Court passed down its decision to roll back decades of union and worker rights in Janus v. (AFSCME) American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, posing a significant threat to patient safety as well as worker and community health and economic standards, said National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurse...

With us for this podcast is Executive Director of Social Security Works, Alex Lawson. While some of us try to fathom the constant barrage of horrible policies the Trump Administration is putting forth--the GOP is designing yet another and plotting how they will cut 1.5 trillion dollars from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. "The magnitude of these proposed budget cuts would mean the fundamen...

With us for this podcast is Executive Director of Social Security Works, Alex Lawson. While some of us try to fathom the constant barrage of horrible policies the Trump Administration is putting forth--the GOP is designing yet another and plotting how they will cut 1.5 trillion dollars from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. "The magnitude of these proposed budget cuts would mean the fundamen...

Healthcare Activist and Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America-- Donna Smith takes on the latest assaults on the U.S. Healthcare system--most notably the dismantling of the Affordable Healthcare Act. Pre-existing conditions are the latest obstacle collateral damage. Donna also talks about the horrific border policies that are resulting in infants, toddlers and parents being separat...