The Unscripted Nurse

01/14/2024

Explain to me why people who know nothing about medicine (state legislatures) should be able to determine what care someone receives. And explain to me why this only applies to pregnant women. EMTALA isn’t perfect, but does anyone want to live in a world where an emergency room can refuse you life saving care? Where they have too? Receiving a medical abortion to preserve your life is not the same as an elective procedure.

The US already has one of the highest rates of maternal death in the developed world. Why are we trying to make it worse?

Maybe those in favor of this should have to come watch a woman bleed to death from a intrauterine hemorrhage that a medical termination could stop.

Patients will die if Supreme Court justices allow states to block doctors from providing emergency abortion care.

08/02/2023

Unscripted thought: Why do nurses find it so hard to stand up for themselves? They spend so much time and genuine effor advocating for others (even doctors at times), yet always hesitate to speak out for their own benefit.

Ladies and gents, standing up for ourselves IS advocating for others. A nurse with no breaks, no lunch and no staff is not a nurse who can competently care for others.

07/27/2023

Stewards aren't afraid to speak up to management. 😎

07/14/2023

Winning isn't always the goal. A loss doesn't always mean the end.

07/14/2023

By REP. ALEX RAMEL (July 12, 2023) — Over the last few weeks, the public has been increasingly besieged by a public relations campaign focusing our attention on gas prices in Washington. I’ve seen billboards, videos, print ads and an opinion piece in Cascadia Daily News. “Affordable Fuel Washi...

07/14/2023

The following Action Alert is from the AFL-CIO: WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 13, 2023) — Right now we have the power to transform the state of our nursing homes in the United States. We know there is a direct connection between low nursing home staffing and higher rates of falls, rehospitalizations, mis...

07/14/2023

Unscripted thought of the day:

Healthcare workers are assaulted at an above average rate. Far too often this is considered part of the job. In what other job are the workers EXPECTED to encounter and accept physical harm? To say nothing of the mental, verbal and emotional abuse. why do we let it continue?

07/14/2023

Violence against healthcare workers is getting worse, not better.

Last night, we responded to a stabbing at Palms West Hospital. Kendra Greene, the suspect, entered the NICU unit and removed her three-day-old infant from the ventilator. When she attempted to leave with the baby, hospital staff members intervened, so she took out a knife resulting in injuries to three staff members. Fortunately, Kendra dropped off the baby with a family member so the baby was safely transported back to the hospital by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue and is currently in stable condition. All three staff members received treatment for non-life-threatening injuries and were discharged the same evening. Kendra Greene was arrested shortly after and is now at the PBC Jail on multiple charges.

07/13/2023

Sign solidarity petition to Seattle Times management: Quality journalism demands quality working conditions!   The following is from the Seattle Times Union, part of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 37082: SEATTLE (July 10, 2023) — Despite the challenges faced by the newspaper...

07/13/2023

Unscripted thought of the day:

We don’t have to deal with the toxic culture of nurses eating their young at the bedside alone. Too many of our nurse managers and admins grew up with that culture and continue to perpetuate it. ”I suffered so you will too” or “I did it and so can you” is a toxic and abusive behavior that needs to be called out wherever we see it.

True leaders want those who come after them to have it better than they did.

07/13/2023

Nothing is quite like the warm embrace of your first union contract.

07/13/2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 11, 2023) — Last year, the threat of a national railroad strike was averted when Congress imposed tentative contract agreements on rail workers. Since then, the unions representing railroad workers and the rest of organized labor have continued to demand that railroad compan...

06/27/2023

And more nurses of both sexes!

Melinda French Gates on why she's focusing on getting more women in public office