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Margaret McRae: LD 1639 is a bad move for patients and nurses

LD 1639 (“An Act to Address Unsafe Staffing of Nurses and Improve Patient Care”) removes nurse autonomy to make the necessary decisions to provide safe, effective, quality care. It essentially reduces every patient and every nurse to just a number by mandating nurse-to-patient ratios. These ratios are not evidenced based and do not take into account the patient as an individual.

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A fulfilling job is a luxury of modern times

The growing interest in cultivating job satisfaction dovetailed with a larger cultural shift toward individual self-fulfillment that reached new levels by the 1960s and 1970s. A job, like an unhappy marriage, should be abandoned if it no longer met a person’s emotional needs.

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Cal Thomas: Biden vs. Coolidge at Howard

These two commencement addresses at Howard University — one from President Biden, the other from President Coolidge — sound as if they could have been reversed. Biden’s speech might have been more fitting in 1924 and Coolidge’s in 2023. One was full of praise and optimism about the future and the value of African Americans; the other was depressing and invoked a false indictment of America from a president who ought to know better.