Saints Super Bowl Win
Congratulations to all fellow Saints fans on the Super Bowl Win over the Colts. I have waited 43 seasons for this and went to the second ever Saints game in 67. I also went through Katrina and remember how the Saints were the only escape many had. I also salute Drew Brees in his post game news conference where he stated that this win was for New Orleans and the whole gulf region. His class and awareness was refreshing and his class undeniable.
Technology of Our Fathers
Hemp Car Ford Made..they had the idea from Henry himself!
Unlike many other articles I have written, this will start with my research information and I will provide my interpretation of the facts as they exist. The following are the ready listings of information about electric cars: Nova(PBS), Hybrid Technology Animation , Zap Car Sports Model , Chevy Volt Info , Toyota Prius Info , and the list does go on. Where you look is not as important as how you are guided internally. The holidays are upon us and our internal desire for what is right for each other moves closer to the surface. I really want this world of large tax deductible land crawlers that waste finite resources to vanish from the earth! I am compiling a large amount of research and will continue to post the resources you can read and follow along. I apologize but I am producing a rather large paper on the simplest of things, cars.It is taking some time to write and patience will hopefully bring you some type of reward!
Never Enough Time for Nurses
As a nurse in this nation, I am proud to care for the people in my charge and not scared of hard work. I am not, however, proud of the companies that are for profit and making money on the over burdened backs of the nursing staff. Employers across the nation scream about nursing shortages all the time. Yes, they are correct in the nation does not have enough nurses working in hospitals. The time allocated for each patient makes hospital nursing the job that does barely a service at all. Time management goes to the center of the argument for nursing patient to staff ratios. Just like any other corporation, hospitals for profit want more production and to stretch the “patient care dollar”. Nursing does the stretching and the time just gets broken down until you never see a nurse in your room.
Nurses are the backbone of any medical system and the back has been broken. Critical shortages are in the mass media and a “dire need for nurses” are always touted. Do they ever point to the reasons why? Nurses make good money, have educations that are transferable, and job security is a given. Sick people cannot be outsource to India, Mexico, or anywhere else. Why are they leaving? A simple reason is burn out and over work. Nurses care for a much larger group of very medically complex patients in hospitals today. People are living longer because the eyes and ears of the MD are ever present in the care process. Not so in America! We have a lower life expectancy than our Canadian brothers and sisters. Corporations in America have pressed the nurse to patient ratios out to and over the edge of viable care in many states. Overworked nurses want to leave the hospital and specialize in what pays the rent and easier due the the unreasonable expectations of employers. Why kill yourself and maybe someone else because you don’t have a reasonable and safe patient ratio?
Have you ever met a drug representative or medical product rep? They are almost to the person an RN that left care settings for more money and much less stress. Nurses have so many outside then hospital jobs that insurance companies use their knowledge with telenursing(calling to check up nurse), environmental health nurses(factory nurse), medical device nurses(sells pacemakers etc), and the list goes on. Large profits are to be made and the nurses get some of that profit through their sales ability. Do you blame a nurse for this? I do not at all. I blame the screwed up medical system in the nation that puts profit before people. Ask a nurse if he or she wants 8 patients to care for working 12 hours or to host a luncheon and sell something in a nice dress or suit. Easy answer for most, show me the money and I will make your pitch. 12 hours sounds long but is it really?
Time is the factor that presses nurses out of facilities. 8 patients for 12 hours. If the math is applied to each patient getting equal care, a little over one hour is all you get with no lunch and no breaks for the nurse. Reviewing the chart, taking report, giving report to the oncoming nurse, and just going to pee have to be counted in there. Time gets shorter with each time intensive event. Now add a really sick patient in the mix of the 8 and the attention shifts from the 8 to the one for longer. You may not get anything for hours if a nurse has a truly sick patient and has your room assigned. Medications take 30-60 seconds each to verify and give each patient. Many elderly now have 15 pills in a given day to maintain their fragile health. The law in most all states require medicines to be given on time(within one hour) for every pill. 8 patients with 10 pills each is not possible within the law for medication administration. How do they get done on time? Nurses have to cut corners to the edge of liability they assume, not the facility. They are giving the pills and having to run to do it. Who wants to volunteer for this duty now? $100,000 a year easily with minimal overtime sounds great to me!
Safety and conscience dictate a better environment in our hospitals. Unions have made strides in some states to get the nurse to patient ratios placed into law. California has a 5 to 1 ratio and nurses have flocked there to work. Unions may be the only answer as the corporations lobbyists keep the lawmakers focused on the shortage without telling them why it exists. The standard line is ” if we mandate the ratio to something, we will be in violation every day because the nurses do not exist to staff.” That is a lie and tells only half the story, they don’t mention the reason staff does not exist. The burned them out and they left due to the workload. It is a rigged game that only money and power can change. Power of the people in calling their government and asking for fundamental changes in health care. Money for the nurses that choose to work in a facility that makes them want to stay and work. HR676 can bring the patients in and the profit out.
We just need a nurse corp for our nation we the people fund. Make part of your new years resolution to bring change to your family and their coming health needs. Call your congressional representative and make them aware of your concerns about nursing overwork and the need for a corp of nurses. Fund an education for nurses and make the an ability repay the loan be through care in a system that we all fund, the Veterans Administration. Make a change, make care come to the health care industry, and stop the for profit machine that care only about how little you get from them. Be the Change!! Yes WE Can! (202) 224-3121 is your access to Congress! It is right at your service! A quickly dialed number and the switchboard will find your representative for you! Give them your zip code and you will be transferred right to the office.
David
Make a Happy Thanksgiving!
I am giving you all my thanks for being a person that has the well being of others in your heart! The holiday was begun by a famous Republican, Abraham Lincoln. Who would have known all the interesting things that would have come from being thankful for the world around and the harvest of the fall. If Thanksgiving is nothing more than a time you sit and eat something together, the time with others is something to be thankful for and make a place in your heart for someone without. I know, with economic times as they are, we may have less money, but we do not have less compassion. Do what you can and make a difference this season for those in need!
Phoenix Rescue Mission
Facts about Homeless People(From Pheonix Rescue Mission Page)
* On any given night, over 750,000 men, women and children are homeless in the US and over 10,000 in Maricopa County alone.
* Almost 50% of the homeless are women, children or families.
* The fastest growing segment of the homeless population is families with children.
* 43% of children living in homeless families are under the age of 6.
* 16% of the single adult population suffers from some form of severe or persistent mental illness.
* At least 40% of the adult homeless population has an addiction disorder.
Causes of Homelessness
* Poverty and Lack of Affordable Housing
* Domestic Violence
* Substance Abuse Issues
* Declining Wages
* Mental Illnesses
* Lack of Affordable Health Care
Touch someone in need and give someone you hope for a better tomorrow through your efforts, food, money, or time. We all have something to give if even it is only time! Make an hour available and make a difference! My best to you and all those reading this message are officially challenged to make this holiday better for you fellow person! Make a Happy Thanksgiving!
David
Small Town Disappears
The small town of Americus, Georgia had the strangest thing happen today, everyone dropped dead at once. The CDC is investigating and FEMA agencies are enroute with aid along with many other agencies of the federal government to assist the surrounding communities with their grief and shock. This silent killer affected each in a manner that was stealthy and deadly. They unfortunate residents reflect the national census data in diversity by percentage almost to the number. Preliminary investigation results indicate each person in this small town shared at least one thing in common, they had no health insurance. Read more
The Way Forward
FDR and Barack Obama only share this unique historical perspective on taking the reigns when the carriage is half off the cliff and way off the reservation. Failing banks, general fear, and speculation from every direction driving to the economic peril appears at every turn. That fear and business gone to unbridled greed was the great depression for FDR and could become that again. The knowledge and speed of technology today will make our reactions more precise today. We can stop the problems on balance sheets. Our focus must involve the people and we just have to calm down everyone involved. Everyone involved in this crisis today is the population of our planet. We are a smaller place and have to overcome this fear and face reality. Greed has made our country poor stewards of money. Read more