dinah77 ADN

dinah77 has 8 years experience as a ADN and specializes in Tele, OB, public health.

Latest Activity

1. Should nurses be getting involved in the Reopen America protests nationwide?

   dinah77 replied to A Hit With The Ladies's topic in COVID

   Dear lord. Did you know you don't actually have to be a working-class traitor? The 1% is never going to be your friends. It doesn't matter how many pro-greed pro-capitalist messages you post. They neither care about you or know you exist. And jee...

2. Is it wrong to turn down a shift?

   dinah77 replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in COVID

   Oh hey! Always happy to see your comments. I’ve begun to feel like I’m one of the few pro labor nurses on here. It’s frightening to me how many of our colleagues have allowed themselves to be duped into loyalty to employers over themselves. also, lov...

3. Is it wrong to turn down a shift?

   dinah77 replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in COVID

   No, you are not doing anything wrong. I see the “prioritize your job over family” chorus has already commented. Really gross of them.

4. Hospital Terminating RNs for Travel Nursing

   dinah77 replied to traumaqueen1993's topic in COVID

   What state do you live in? Some unions are local to the state, and others cover multi-state regions. You may live in an at-will state, but there are federal laws to protect you from being dismissed for attempting to unionize. Whatever specific un...

5. Hospital Terminating RNs for Travel Nursing

   dinah77 replied to traumaqueen1993's topic in COVID

   The keywords here being a union hospital. I'm a broken record right now, but I can't believe that there are still non-union hospitals anywhere. For god's sake nurses, organize!

6. RN new grad going into L&D

   dinah77 replied to cw123's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I think you'll be fine as a new grad. However, make sure L&D is where your heart truly lies. I was positive that was where I wanted to end up, but ended up loving postpartum way more. I absolutely loathed charting fetal heart strips etc, but I lo...

7. Detroit ED Nurses refuse to work without more help, ordered to leave by Administration

   dinah77 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in COVID

   Hi, welcome to for-profit healthcare in America; are you new here?

8. My Ultimate Warning based on personal Experience with COVID+ patients and co-workers.

   dinah77 replied to theoneandonly's topic in COVID

9. Should I quit?

   dinah77 replied to Guest219794's topic in COVID

   First, you need to organize. All the individual nurses cannot do what a labor union can. I'm so happy to be union, particularly now. There is a team of people who have done nothing, full-time but advocate for more PPE , and keeping our employers acc...

10. Should I quit?

    dinah77 replied to Guest219794's topic in COVID

    Nobody should accept it

11. Should I quit?

    dinah77 replied to Guest219794's topic in COVID

    I think there is a mentality shift that needs to happen in nursing before more of us start to stand up for ourselves and demand better working conditions. Just look at all the responses on here from the martyr types who are pushing that harmful "yo...

12. Unions are worth their weight in gold in times like these

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in COVID

    Love it. It’s just really really sad the amount of people who have drank the kool-aid on anti-union propaganda I’ve worked at four different hospitals over 10 years, and one was non-union. The difference is night and day. The number of crap new poli...

13. Unions are worth their weight in gold in times like these

    dinah77 posted a topic in COVID

    The first picture is one of a bill that just passed the MN legislature, largely due to the efforts of the Minnesota nurses association The second is my hospital systems response that they emailed out last night in reponse Funny how they suddenly ...

14. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    dinah77 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in COVID

    This is perfection- I'm pretty sure the ultimate definition of caring is keeping people alive phn-RN seems to think it's black and white- and if catching sepsis is so basic and technical, how is that so many nurses I've taken report from sit there c...

15. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    dinah77 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in COVID

    LOL. My you're being obtuse. I actually have a BA and will be completing an MPH in May, but go off Also, I've been a nurse for 10 yrs, and a member for 14- You've been here less than a month, so you should really think about your reputation and ho...