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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...

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...