Daisy Joyce

That statement is also correct. My original assertion was that when I received the measles vaccine a few years ago, I didn’t have to wear a mask afterwards to do everyday tasks and everyday errands.

You do if you're caring for a patient with those diseases. It's part of airborne precautions. That’s correct. In a care setting. Not everyday life.

See, I’ve taken flu and measles vaccines in the last several years, but never wore a mask afterwards.

Has there been another vaccine where people still had to wear masks and social distance from *everybody* before?

Don’t worry about being a good person. Simply make the right decisions when they’re presented to you

There are no long term safety or efficacy data available.

The CDC is making no claims that the way to get back to normal is through vaccine. You still must mask and social distance even after vaccine.

While the chart upthread is very nice and professional sounding, The vaccine *was* rushed. Meaning it went to market the fastest of any vaccine before this. For a disease that at the time was less than a year old. So it comes down to your definition of “rushed”. There is no long term safety data. Fertility studies aren’t completed yet.

https://www.CDC.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html The CDC says to wear a mask because you can still spread the virus after getting the vaccine.

According to the CDC, Covid19 vaccine does not prevent transmission of the virus.

We had a time when we had several patients with severe behaviors all ar the same time. Screaming, stripping, demanding to be toileted every 20-30 minutes. Naturally, this made the nursing staff looked really bad. Management didn’t care. If a staff member called out, we couldn’t get coverage because CNAs would rather tighten their belt and live on ramen noodles than come in to work only to be tormented and overwhelmed. It finally got resolved because somebody called the State inspectors on us and management was able to magically be able to afford more staff.

My skin was getting irritated under the mask, but now I put on Vaseline and it really helps. (not a paid endorsement)

My work place is split nearly 50/50 on getting the vaccine. I’m not taking it. But co-workers have been courteous and minding their own business about other peoples decisions. Management is unhappy with the poor vaccine acceptance rate, but ATM haven’t made any threatening gestures, just a lot of propaganda posters everywhere

Ah yes, you must work at a mystical, magical Covid-free hospital. Lucky ???

My own wee “straw poll” at work also indicates that most of us won’t be taking the vaccine, and are willing to leave nursing. And in reply to an above poster, we are willing to mask up, and we are willing to continue to care for Covid19 patients.

I’m seeing gain traction in social media and online forums. In a discussion in another forum, I actually had somebody ask me if it was fair for me to let other people take the vaccine, and wait and see if they had adverse effects before deciding to take it. Then went on to say that anybody who didn’t take the vaccine shouldn’t be surprised to be denied being able to shop or travel or work. I mean, okay, it’s an online forum, but still...

I’m so thrilled to find this thread. I’m not against vaccines, I’m not against the Covid19 vaccine. However, I won’t take any vaccine that hasn’t been in the general public for five years, I figure by that time we’ll have a better picture of vaccine adverse reactions, and also a better picture of Covid19. What I find extremely alarming, is a growing narrative that Good, Moral, Heroes will take the vaccine, and Evil, Selfish, Villians will decline to take it, just for spite. This might actually be my career ending event.

I don’t want to chart where the patients can see me. They’ll start making busy work for me.

Does he use his own name? Reveal he’s a nurse or where he lives? If not, he can probably get away with it indefinitely. And if he gets famous enough, he can monetize his channel, make a heap of money and never have to deal with secretions and excretions for the rest of his life.

I’m a sub nurse, so I always call, because I don’t know who the nervous parents are. But I’ll leave a message on the machine. They like to be kept in the loop. The nurses I sub for also like that I go that extra mile.

The “any symptoms” thing will be a nightmare. I work in LTC and sub in schools. One of our LTC patients had nausea/vomiting/afebrile. She got tested because a patient she was friends with presented with fever/cough/chest pain. Both had Covid19. But what if the nausea/vomiting had presented * first* or *only*? It looked like just a stomach bug...

I switched to vinegar because I haven’t seen Lysol Laundry in MONTHS

unless they revealed their name and their state, there’s no way to know.

Because you mentioned “praying with the EM”, I’m going to answer you based on that frame. OTOH, it’s nice that you formed a bond with an lonely older lady. You probably brought a lot of joy to her life. OTOH, it’s possible you became overly attached. For you to spend two hours a night doing her PM care makes me wonder the care you gave to the other patients on your assignment. Now that you’re on a new assignment, *those* residents have the first priority of your time. If you want to see your friend, that’s okay, but it has to be on your free time. You seem to be aware that you’re too attached—that sense of irritation when you’re not able to see your friend. Catholic spiritual writer Fr John Hardon wrote about disordered attachment— that a person can do the right thing for the wrong reason , or to take time away from the necessary to attend to the preferred. (Look up “Catholic Catechism” by Fr Hardon). So yes, while you have a lot of compassion for this lady, which is good, it needs to be balanced with your other responsibilities.

Yes, I know the preceptor is not supposed to be an armchair psychiatrist, but know-it-all-ism doesn’t always stem from narcissism. Some people were in environments growing up where to avoid belittlement or dismissal they *had* to give the appearance of confidence and smarts. Or they were constantly compared unflatteringly to another sibling or classmate. Or they couldn’t be the “beauty” or the “athletic one” , so they *had* to be the “smart one”. Like I said, it’s not the preceptors job to fix the emotional problems of the new employee, but just be aware that some people carry a lot of wounds and baggage.