allnurses is participating in the virtual AACN -NTI conference this week. We have enjoyed meeting some of our members in person as we attended the conference every year for more than a decade. But COVID got in the way. Last year the conference was canceled. This year is the first year AACN has hosted a virtual conference, While it doesn't provide quite the exhilarating experience as coming together in person, it is great to connect in this way.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was the featured speaker at yesterday's Super Session. He had plenty of words of admiration and appreciation for nurses as well as words of wisdom and hope for the future.
There is usually a Nurses Out on Wednesdays, but tonight it will be Nurses Night In with Keith Urban. Too bad this is not in person...
One of the songs that was shared with the attendees is "Compassionate Combat". I want to share this with all of you. We are in this together as we continue to fight the war...
Thank you for your heroic efforts that are "all in the day of a nurse".
Service connected deaths include more than those that occur in combat.
Between Memorial Day 2020 and 2021, 18 services members died supporting operations in the Middle East. In July of 2020, eight Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman lost their lives in an amphibious vehicle accident. And last week, a recruit at MCRD Parris Island died during training event. And, if one were to follow any of the military oriented sites, there have been other active duty deaths as well, that haven't made the national news cycle.
You've added 26 onto the total I gave for 2020 and it's still an awful lot less than 3600. 34 < 3600. How many deaths occurred in the US from car accidents and just general accidents in just one month? Life is dangerous sometimes. You are using a false equivalence.
Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
45 minutes ago, GrumpyRN said:
You've added 26 onto the total I gave for 2020 and it's still an awful lot less than 3600. 34 < 3600. How many deaths occurred in the US from car accidents and just general accidents in just one month? Life is dangerous sometimes. You are using a false equivalence.
We surely wouldn't want to compare the total to civilians killed by firearms in this country...or police.
I initially posted my comments to back up a vet (another nurse) who was speaking truth to their experiences and in return for their honesty was condescended to and accused of being a war criminal (?!l)
Since 2001 114,000 vets have taken their own life. Lets not encourage one more by being complete dicks.
Instead, how 'bout we ask our leaders how covid happened in the 1st place. But that is not part of the leftist talking points allowed, so lets talk about gun violence instead?
Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
33 minutes ago, mtlrn said:
I initially posted my comments to back up a vet (another nurse) who was speaking truth to their experiences and in return for their honesty was condescended to and accused of being a war criminal (?!l)
Since 2001 114,000 vets have taken their own life. Lets not encourage one more by being complete dicks.
Instead, how 'bout we ask our leaders how covid happened in the 1st place. But that is not part of the leftist talking points allowed, so lets talk about gun violence instead?
Peace out.
LOL
Leftist talking points, eh? So you don't wonder why Trump didn't investigate the hell out of that in 2020? How exactly did a political talking point from a minority party stymie that investigation for 12 months under Trump's macho leadership? I wonder if you discovered that the virus escaped from a lab that it would somehow excuse the failed federal policy of the Trump administration.
As for encouraging suicide...you must have missed the comments encouraging that veteran to seek some counseling. By the way, veterans and active duty often complete suicide with a firearm. And isn't it a shame that our military breaks people and then doesn't care for them adequately? I think so.
I initially posted my comments to back up a vet (another nurse) who was speaking truth to their experiences and in return for their honesty was condescended to and accused of being a war criminal (?!l)
Since 2001 114,000 vets have taken their own life. Lets not encourage one more by being complete dicks.
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Peace out.
As I pointed out at the time to the poster, what they described were war crimes. Shooting children, destroying property, beating women and children and kidnapping and beating/killing men are all war crimes. I even gave a reference to the United Nations definitions. I will leave the reference again; https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml
You do know that I am in the UK don't you? We do not treat our military as something special. They are doing a job that they are paid for. We covered this here;
Perhaps you missed the bits where I specifically asked the poster if they were OK, more than once.
Instead, how 'bout we ask our leaders how covid happened in the 1st place. But that is not part of the leftist talking points allowed, so lets talk about gun violence instead?
Perhaps if it had not been politicised by Trump we could have found out. Although does it really matter at present? It is here so let's try to get rid of it THEN we can assign blame.
You don't think that gun violence should be addressed?
"In 2020, gun violence killed nearly 20,000 Americans, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, more than any other year in at least two decades. An additional 24,000 people died by suicide with a gun."
Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.
Ahem. As the delta variant is ratcheting up in the face of unvaccinated populations, I fear we’re going to be hearing this song sung to more nurses, all over again. We don’t have to compete on trauma Media or do any other form of sniping at each other over this. It’s a heartbreak all over.
“You can thank a nurse for that.” Remember that part.
GrumpyRN, NP
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You've added 26 onto the total I gave for 2020 and it's still an awful lot less than 3600. 34 < 3600. How many deaths occurred in the US from car accidents and just general accidents in just one month? Life is dangerous sometimes. You are using a false equivalence.