LiveFit99

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1. To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate, That Is The Question

   LiveFit99 replied to Joe V's topic in COVID

   Which strengthens the need for herd immunity.

2. To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate, That Is The Question

   LiveFit99 replied to Joe V's topic in COVID

   Ford Pinto. Therefore all cars are bad and are a government conspiracy with Big Auto to steal your hard earned money.

3. To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate, That Is The Question

   LiveFit99 replied to Joe V's topic in COVID

   How are you able to categorize a vaccine immune response as "severe", compared to any other immune response? People seem to think that vaccines are some crazy, unnatural invention. All vaccines do is present an antigen to the immune system. The exa...

4. To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate, That Is The Question

   LiveFit99 replied to Joe V's topic in COVID

   I'm 41 and was so surprised when I met a girl at college who had caught polio at 2 years old (roughly 1980). The Vaccine was already available for decades but her parents had not given it to her yet. She required arm braces to walk because her legs ...

5. Wearing a beard as a male nurse?

   LiveFit99 replied to Jarl Redbeard's topic in Men

   If you have a beard then you just have to wear a full hood. As for professionalism, I've never been asked about my beard and would find it offensive if they did.

6. Do women find male nurses attractive?

   LiveFit99 replied to Sykadia's topic in Men

   Regarding the public at large, nurses (including males) are viewed well. I've never dated a woman who thought less of me for being a male nurse. I've never had to defend my masculinity. I've found most male nurses are straight and the homosexuals ...

7. How do you handle female patients your age or younger?

   LiveFit99 replied to DanGIT1322's topic in Men

   1st, We can make the argument that female nurses typically don't do anything special for male patients, just because female nurses are the norm. Why should it be different for male nurses? 95% of the time I make no special effort to have a witness w...

8. Wearing gloves with HIV positive patients

   LiveFit99 replied to Leekri's topic in General Nursing

   Which part of "touch absolutely nothing" did you not understand?

9. Wearing gloves with HIV positive patients

   LiveFit99 replied to Leekri's topic in General Nursing

   Missing teeth, well that's part of the assessment. If it doesn't matter then why would I assess it? It tells you something about the health, or past care of the individual. My previous post was in response to the person who tried to make a point ...

10. Wearing gloves with HIV positive patients

    LiveFit99 replied to Leekri's topic in General Nursing

    What about gloving when somebody comes in who's obese unkempt unshowered looks methed out and missing a few teeth? But not gloving for a clean cut suburban mom? Discriminatory? Yes. Good critical thinking? Yes!

11. Wearing gloves with HIV positive patients

    LiveFit99 replied to Leekri's topic in General Nursing

    I could care less if it hurts a patients feelings when I put on gloves. It's for my safety. I often glove just to take blood pressure. And what about the mouse and keyboard at the computer? Ain't no way that things getting cleaned! Patients are in t...

12. does working 12 hours on the floor count as exercise?

    LiveFit99 replied to Wheaties's topic in Stress 101

    Those are examples of light to moderate exercise. A brisk walk is typically categorized as moderate. Those things are healthy. However, research shows that "vigorous" exercise reduces all cause mortality. Things that make you sweat or out of breath....

13. does working 12 hours on the floor count as exercise?

    LiveFit99 replied to Wheaties's topic in Stress 101

    Your time spent nursing is considered "activity", not exercise. Being active is good for general health and burning of calories, but it does not offer the same health benefits of vigorous exercise. Exercise is short-term, high intensity stress tha...

14. Just dropping in to say "hello" and offer a couple of tips :)

    LiveFit99 replied to raindrop's topic in Travel

    What if some poor soul bought bitcoin after reading the initial post and bought for $1,700? Now they're left with a popped bubble and only $12,000. And what do you mean "no intrinsic value". A $600 billion market says that's false. I can use cry...

15. Just dropping in to say "hello" and offer a couple of tips :)

    LiveFit99 replied to raindrop's topic in Travel

    Got to love those "I told you so" types. Bitcoin has experience some 6 or so crashes of 40+%. Yet, do you realize Bitcoin is still up over 1000% in the last year? I can live with that kind of "pop". Even if the OP missed the recent top, those 20...