Nurse Talk

This week we talk with Jane Thomason. Jane is an Industrial Hygienist for National Nurses United, where she serves as an expert on nurses’ health and safety in the workplace. Recently NNU launched a new Health & Safety Project headed up by RN Director of Health & Safety, Bonnie Castillo.

Recently National Nurses United launched the Nurses Health & Safety Campaign. This project is a network of nurses and allies, committed to collectively advocating for nurse health and safety. The nurses vow to continue fighting to advance protections for nurses and patients, through direct action and advocacy in the legislative and regulatory arenas. With us to talk about this project is Jane Thom...

RN and Co-President of National Nurses United, Deborah Burger joins us this week to talk about the People’s Rally that converged in D.C. to celebrate the defeat of the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) and chart a path ‘Forward Together’. Nurses and other organizations have been fighting against the TPP for over 4 years now and are largely responsible for it's demise. "It's a movement, and it doesn'...

How do you keep going when the doctors give you a two percent chance of survival? For Terri Tate, it was a blend of faith, perseverance, prescription-strength humor—and most of all, a heart that never quit. "A Crooked Smile", Terri's memoir, is the irresistible story of her journey through diagnosis, surgeries, the labyrinth of modern health care, and into surprising new adventures in self-discove...

RN and Nursing Practice and Safety Specialist for National Nurses United, De Ann McEwen, talks with Nurse Talk Radio about the Registered Nurses Response Network … Recently the Registered Nurses Response Network sent volunteer nurses to help with medical aid at the Standing Rock Site where a protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline has been going since January 2016 and has ga...

Nurses and over 200 other organizations are supporting Colorado Amendment 69, single payer healthcare for all Coloradans. Our Healthcare in America correspondent, Donna Smith gives us the details about the amendment, the nurse’s involvement and why it is so important to the National Single Payer Healthcare Movement. Coloradocare.org

Nurses and over 200 other organizations are supporting Colorado Amendment 69, single payer healthcare for all Coloradans. Our Healthcare in America correspondent, Donna Smith gives us the details about the amendment, the nurse’s involvement and why it is so important to the National Single Payer Healthcare Movement. http://www.coloradocare.org

New study sites price gouging trends by BIG PHARMA will continue. Director of Government Relations for California Nurses Association/National Nurses United Don Nielsen, talks about California's Proposition 61. Vote YES so Californians can have access to the same discount pricing available to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Healthcare In America's Donna Smith talks about the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program. Listen up folks. Did you know that after a Medicaid beneficiary passes away, the state where they lived can collect the cost of Medicaid Services received on or after his/or her 55th birthday from his/or her estate? Check this out.

As the Minnesota Nurses Strike against Allina Health Systems continues, issues concerning Allina's financial dealings and a recent power grab to seek sole control of Unity Hospital are disturbing. Unity is a community hospital supported by taxpayers. "This is another example of Allina bullying nurses, other employees, and the entire community in the name of profits", said Minnesota Nurses Associat...

Green light for two California Bills sponsored by National Nurses United and California Nurses Association (CNA). This is great news for patients and healthcare workers. Oh, and if you haven't yet heard of "observation status", check out this podcast. AND, what are "toxic plums"? Ask anyone who works in an operating room. CNA's Legislative Advocate Stephanie Roberson is with us on Nurse Talk.

Nurse Talk visits with RN, JD Mathew Keller: As Minnesota RNs strike against Allina Health Systems, nurses are concerned over the hospitals business dealings. The hospital wants to shift $10 million dollars in healthcare costs to nurses at a time when Allina financial disclosures report $1.3 billion dollars in net profit over the past 6 years, with $130 million in net revenue in 2015 alone. WHAT'S...

This week we visit with RN and Nursing Practice and Safety Specialist for National Nurses United, De Ann McEwen. De Ann talks about national workplace violence protections for nurses and healthcare workers. Whether or not you are represented by a union, National Nurses United is leading the way to protect all nurses from workplace violence.

Last week the National Labor Relations Board held public hearings on labor violations at Bluefield Regional Medical Center, (West Virginia) one of seven hospitals owned by Community Health Systems. We spoke with RN Brenda Meadwell about what results the nurses are hoping for.

Author and Gerontologist, Kira Reginato talks about her new book, TIPS FOR HELPING YOUR AGING PARENTS---without losing your mind! The book offers checklists that will turn “what do I do now”? Into “I got this!” Listen to our podcast and buy the book.

For our listeners out there not familiar with the critical issue of workplace violence in the healthcare setting—it is a growing national epidemic against registered nurses and healthcare workers and it is finally being taken seriously on a national level. Between 2005 and 2014 incidents of workplace violence increased by 110% in private industry hospitals.

This week on Nurse Talk we talk about a National Nurses United Petition to Federal OSHA for Workplace Violence Prevention Standards. Is Workplace Violence a problem at hospitals? Bigger than you know! AND, Healthcare In America's Donna Smith talks about Health Insurance greed and ACA rate hikes. Is this a problem? The answer is YES--a big one. All this and more....

In the wake of new cases of ZIKA being reported in the U.S. and other countries, National Nurses United issues guidelines to employers on how to protect nurses from ZIKA transmission. RN & Co-President of National Nurses United, Deborah Burger talks with Nurse Talk Radio.

Let's face it--there IS a water shortage in California and no one knows that more than farmers in the Central Valley. While our hearts go out to them---this week we talk about crops being watered with oil waste water. That's right and no one knows what's in the water. RN and Professor of Public Health Barbara Sattler visits with us about this 20 year old practice.

Part 1: RN and Professor of Public Health at University of San Francisco talks with us about the practice of using oil wastewater in California's Central Valley--to irrigate crops. And the oil companies are making a profit on the wastewater--they SELL, yes sell--to the farmers. Barbara talks about this and more about California oil production and the concerns nurses have about public health. This...

Part 2: RN and Professor of Public Health at University of San Francisco talks with us about the practice of using oil wastewater in California's Central Valley--to irrigate crops. And the oil companies are making a profit on the wastewater--they SELL, yes sell--to the farmers. Barbara talks about this and more about California oil production and the concerns nurses have about public health. This...

RN and Professor of Public Health at University of San Francisco talks with us about the practice of using oil wastewater in California's Central Valley--to irrigate crops. And the oil companies are making a profit on the wastewater--they SELL, yes sell--to the farmers. Barbara talks about this and more about California oil production and the concerns nurses have about public health. This is a 3-p...

Exclusive---what's going on behind and in front of closed doors before the Democratic National Convention? ALOT! Nurses and progressive groups are still fighting for a platform that includes "medicare for all" and other issues such as anti TPP. Donna Smith from Progressive Democrats of America and National Nurses United are leading the charge all week.

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Naomi Katz is a writer and teacher and has been working with young women for over 15 years. She is the author of Beautiful: Being an Empowered Young Woman, and founder of Beautiful Project, a curricular initiative dedicated to building self confidence among adolescent girls and young women. For more information visit beautiful project.net.