by Mike Hall, Apr 20, 2011
In Planation, Fla., registered nurses at Florida Medical Center voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida, an affiliate of the National Nurses United (NNU).
The 250 RN’s join the more than 5,000 Florida nurses in 14 hospitals around the state who have recently voted for a union voice to help them boost patient care. Says Delia Kan, an intensive care RN at the hospital:
Florida Medical Center RNs want to improve nurse-to- patient staffing in our hospital which will help us retain and recruit experienced nurses. RNs are gaining the power to have an effective independent voice in everyday patient care decisions that will improve the quality of care that our patients and our community deserve.
Also today, NNU announced a new online game show, Wheel of Misfortune. Unlike Wheel of Fortune where most of the slots are winners, there’s not a single winner on this wheel.
The game divides the Wheel of Misfortune into 10 slots, one each for the 10 worst governors in the natoon: Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Jan Brewer of Arizona, Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, Rick Perry of Texas, Rick Scott of Florida, Paul LePage of Maine, Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Rick Snyder of Michigan, Chris Christie of New Jersey, and John Kasich of Ohio.
You won’t walk away with a bundle of cash when you spin this wheel. Instead you’ll have a chance to solve the puzzle of just who is America’s worst governor. Even if you buy a vowel, that’ll be a tough job.
Each time you spin the wheel and it stops on one of the governors, you’ll find a treasure trove of frightening facts. Some are well-known–like Walker’s and Kasich’s elimination of collective bargaining rights for public employees. But others are more obscure. Did you know Perry packs a Ruger .380 and calls Social Security a “ponzi scheme”? Or that Brewer eliminated state funding for low-income patients in need of organ transplants and wants to drop 250,000 Arizonians from Medicaid? Click here to take spin the wheel.
