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Published: 2015-04-17 08:51:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 1575; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 4
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Description STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- April 16, 2015. Members of the New York State Nurses Association rallied today at Richmond University Medical Center, demanding a better staff to patient ratio. Photo reuse permitted, attribution required: "Thomas Altfather Good".
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msfowle [2015-05-04 13:21:50 +0000 UTC]

They're doing the same thing at the hospital my mother's worked at for 30 years. They keep trying to 'buy her out' so they can hire younger nurses at less pay, who aren't unionized. They run the hospital like a business and worry more about money than patient care.

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TAGFoto In reply to msfowle [2015-05-06 15:30:12 +0000 UTC]

Have a look at this: www.thomasgood.com/?page_id=43…
Dr. Kernberg is brilliant and talks at length about the (too often) mutually exclusive goals of quality care and increased profits.

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msfowle In reply to TAGFoto [2015-05-07 12:31:51 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the link!

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TAGFoto In reply to msfowle [2015-05-09 08:52:30 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely, I hope it's useful.

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Lintu47 [2015-05-03 14:17:36 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on the DD!
Have a nice day!

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TAGFoto In reply to Lintu47 [2015-05-06 15:08:33 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, much appreciated.

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Lintu47 In reply to TAGFoto [2015-05-06 18:23:11 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure!

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krasblak [2015-05-01 21:41:17 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations on the Daily Deviation!

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TAGFoto In reply to krasblak [2015-05-06 15:09:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I was wondering why this shot was getting hits. Nothing gets by me.

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pulbern [2015-05-01 13:42:53 +0000 UTC]

So proud of these nurses! Great shot.

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TAGFoto In reply to pulbern [2015-05-01 18:30:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I've worked in health care for the last 30 years (and Mom is a retired nurse) so this is an issue I care about...

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pulbern In reply to TAGFoto [2015-05-02 14:26:14 +0000 UTC]

What sort of work do you do??

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TAGFoto In reply to pulbern [2015-05-02 16:06:29 +0000 UTC]

I was a case worker (entitlements, then psychiatry) but for the last 20 years I've been writing (Free Open Source) software: clinical charting apps, web based. Here is an article I wrote for Psychiatric Services (the APA journal) back in 2005: ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/fu…

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Nitrofires-Revenge [2015-05-01 12:07:43 +0000 UTC]

I think no matter where you are in the world staffing to patient ratios are always an issue. There have been protests here in Australia as well over the past few years because of it

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DoMiNouS-Qi [2015-05-01 09:33:18 +0000 UTC]

“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everyone has to earn a living. It is a fact that 1 in 10,000 of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them about earning a living.” ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller ...   Lack of quality healthcare professionals is due to the lack of opportunity and human rights... such as self-determination. Many children have grown up who'd have been naturally inclined towards healthcare but were coerced otherwise and/or denied basic human rights such as the RIGHT to a FREE education, healthy thriving community participation that includes ALL of the animals, plants, fungi, minerals and beyond and encourages confidence and subsistence/healing/responsibility and compassion, as well as the right of mobility... and many other basic rights denied... Such as the right to a livable future, clean air to breath, water to drink and healthy soil to cultivate for ourselves in the near future and our grandchildren's grandchildren seven gens down the line...  "“Other Westerners and I are struck by the emotional security, self-­confidence, curiosity, and autonomy of members of small-scale societies, not only as adults but already as children. We see that people in small-scale societies spend far more time talking to each other than we do, and they spend no time at all on passive entertainment supplied by outsiders, such as television, videogames, and books. We are struck by the precocious development of social skills in their children. These are qualities that most of us admire, and would like to see in our own children, but we discourage development of those qualities by ranking and grading our children and constantly ­telling them what to do.”-www.madinamerica.com/2013/08/s…www.fifthestate.org/archive/39… ~!~ deepgreenresistance.org/en/ ~!~

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