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Specializes in Tele, ICU, Staff Development.

Any WA nurses out there who can explain Senator Maureen Walsh's diatribe about nurses in critical care access hospitals "playing cards a considerable amount of time?"

What was that about? https://www.wsna.org/news/2019/senator-states-that-nurses-probably-play-cards-for-a-considerable-amount-of-the-day-in-amending-rest-breaks-bill

If any WA nurses are playing cards on duty, please shape up. It makes us all look bad.

(that's a joke, btw).

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Specializes in ER.

Card playing is popular here in Washington. Everywhere else people look at their smartphones. Here in Washington, impromptu card games are common.

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, Staff Development.
4 minutes ago, Emergent said:

Card playing is popular here in Washington. Everywhere else people look at their smartphones. Here in Washington, impromptu card games are common.

She meant on duty.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Wait, hold compressions — I have a full house!

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1 minute ago, Nurse Beth said:

She meant on duty.

Of course! My unit loves Bridge, and Crazy Eights. We have several games going at once. We get so tired from it all, we NEED extra breaks!

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3 minutes ago, Pixie.RN said:

Wait, hold compressions — I have a full house!

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Right. A full house supersedes compressions, obviously...?

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, Staff Development.

Go fish is my only game.

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Apparently this comment was made during discussion of
SHB 1155, in the Washington state Senate. SHB 1155 addresses meal and rest breaks as well as mandatory overtime. The comment regarding playing cards was made by Ms. Walsh, specifically referring to nurses at critical access hospitals, where she stated there might only be 6 patients in the entire facility.

Ms. Walsh's comments begin at 9:10 of the video.

There is another thread discussing this: Mandatory Break Bill.

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.
2 hours ago, Pixie.RN said:

Wait, hold compressions — I have a full house!

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Full house beats compressions

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Specializes in School Nurse, past Med Surge.

I’m just here for DaveyDo’s drawing. I’m too dumbfounded to come up with anything clever or snarky to say.

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I left a hashtag on her Facebook that she keeps deleting/hiding.

#yourcareeriscoding

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Specializes in Primary Care, LTC, Private Duty.

"Maybe since she's coding, no one will notice that I failed to call 'Uno' with only one card left in my hand..."

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