tiffanyselah

People get the vaccine and still spread covid. Period. The vaccine will protect you. The CDC requires continued masking because we know the vaccine in you MAY NOT protect them. You can still spread it. You can still contract it. Period. That being said you are the hospitals SERVANT. That the legal terminology for you? Their worker? Their servant. You have no rights, no HIPAA, and maybe no bathroom breaks. You don't want to be a life saving slave? Then do something else. Forced vaccinations are coming and as you can see here your peers will nurse bullying you all the way to the grave. No one cares about your rights, your life, your family, your bursting bladder, your hunger, your sleep deprivation, your fear of being assaulted at work, your desire for a safe work environment, your health insurance, your mental health. NO ONE. They will fire you and tell u to be thankful u were ever allowed to work. I suggest you be quiet about your vaccine opinion and try to ride this out as long as you can. It will come. Be financially prepared. It will happen and you have no legal recourse. Period. If we can get laws to protect us from assault at work, why would they care about a shot.

Here is one article that is a Meta analysis done on web MD: https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/features/medical-marijuana-research-web It's just so frustrating to see so many educated people who haven't read even one of the many, MANY MANY studies completed on marijuana. There are so many uses of marijuana and very little dangers, especially compared to the drugs we currently used. A friend of mine recently took care of a 34 yr old previously normal patient. She had a critical incident and ended up on pressors which saved her life - but took every single one of her limbs. So, she is alive, but she can't walk, or hold her children. How many people would want to live like that. There are so many drugs we use WITH REGULARITY regardless of their side effects, then we cast such a harsh light on marijuana without the public being fully aware of the drugs we currently give them. We tell them marijuana is addictive then prescribe percocets. There is not a study YET that has shown ever a death due to marijuana alone, but we send people home on PO dilaudid, and we know what these things do!!! AZ recently passed a law preventing prescribers from sending people home on more than 90 mg of morphine po! How can a person prescribe 90 of morphine then claim marijuana is dangerous and addictive is beyond me! It is so misleading to tell people not to use marijuana because they will get high then prescribe ambien for insomnia, when we all know the hallucinations that can lead to. So many people have killed love ones, or woken up in a grocery store on ambien and we still send people home on it! I just don't understand as a medical professionals, how we are doing what is best for our patients when we say these things. Look at the risks we are putting our patients in so that we can look like perfect prescribers in the eyes of the government. Here's some ativan, benadryl, percocet and ambien, but MARIJUANA is dangerous - cuz the government says so! LOL. You definitely do not have to believe me, I'm only an RN, but there are BOOKS, STUDIES many many things that have been done in the name of research of marijuana. Do you think the same lawmakers who don't even see a need to clean flints water would legalize marijuana if they weren't presented with cold hard facts? Even if ALL of the politicians in the world were evil, then are all of the people? The people are stating marijuana has helped them, Sanjay Gupta did that special... are all these people kooks? There is a nursing association ACNA - American Cannabis Nursing Association, which is dedicated to further marijuana education from a nursing perspective. Look at any of these things. Even if you choose to throw every word out I have said, read the Web MD meta analysis above, go to the ACNA website, or just google marijuana studies and read for 5 or 10 minutes, and I guarantee you will see how beneficial this can be for your patients. This is not a simple fad. If you don't see how wonderful for your patients this can be, at the very least you can see logically how the side effects are similar or better than many of the side effects of medications we currently prescribe daily. Please consider this the next time you discuss this with your patients. I beg of you to be considerate of the latest studies regardless of what "big brother" says, for your patients.

Why do we give them the bonuses for seeing a certain amt of patients in a day, but they don't share in the consequences? We alone share that burden, but together we share the money? nonsensical.

I responded already. She was the help-all. Doesn't explain asking a person to give a med in a scanner with no scanner for medications to check the right patient, right dose, no excuse for giving a patient a medication in a place with no appropriate monitors or resuscitation equipment, no excuse for constantly skipping pharmacy verification a NORMAL CONSTANT ER PROCESS. There is NO EXCUSE for pushing the responsibility solely on her. The administration can share in the consequences as well as the bonuses. period.

I sent this to the DA: Mr. Funk, ACCOMPLICE - someone who intentionally does something to encourage or help another person to commit a crime. If you are sending this woman, Ms. Vaught to jail for something you call a crime, what about the person who directed her to commit this crime? I applaud you in your attempt to rectify this horrible situation with Ms. Vaught. I however see weakness in your attempt. I and countless other nurses are placed in this very exact situation daily, especially in the ER. I've done it, many other nurses have done it. While you are prosecuting her for the patient in the scanner, her 4, 5, or 6 other patients with heart attacks, strokes, etc were waiting for her in their rooms. Doctors orders pile up, medications for stroke, heart attack meds, ordered. No one to give it but us, and someone asks us to run down to the scanner and "quickly give this med." By luck and grace we usually get away with this unscathed. However, by putting this woman in jail you are doing nothing. She will go to jail and the PEOPLE that direct this sort of behavior will continue to run their hospitals and receive bonus' larger than your yearly pay. They will continue to ask 21 and 22 year old kids to do this over and over. Threaten to take away their livelihood if they do not, and bully them until they finally give in, bypass the checks in place and do what is asked of them. Yes, put the weak ones in jail and the new ones will fall into the same pit. I don't want to make suggestions to you that are more than you can handle, but I want to ASSURE you, that this practice will continue long after you are gone with your chosen path. You want to provide justice? Prosecute along with her those who ordered her to do this. Why put the prostitute in jail and not the John? I'm sure if you even attempted to try and prosecute any administrator in the hospital, the powers that be would probably have your head and your job. But you would be honoring a system of justice. It wasn't her bright idea to give this med. She probably would have been charting, or sitting, or using the bathroom. Instead someone told her to do this wrong. That same person, unscathed, will continue to order their subordinates to do so, with consequences if they do not. So good luck with this path of prosecuting caregivers for doing exactly what they are told. You are well within your rights of doing so, but to what end? If it's to jail some sad broken poor woman, you can easily do that. But if you are attempting to enact change, to right an error before it possibly happens to you then you are going about it completely wrong. If you constantly attack the minions and not the boss, you will get nowhere. Minions are minions, they can always be replaced; but you already knew that. PET scan has no medication scanner, no scanner does - Check bypass #1, Scanners do not have appropriate equipment for a resuscitation which a code would require Check bypass #2 NO ONE in the ER waits for a pharmacist to verify meds EVER. That is an ER culture across the nation. BYPASS #3. I agree that she did make some errors. So she didn't have an assignment, you're right. But this practice of asking nurses to do this is a common practice. The fact that people aren't dying en masse of this is surprising actually because of all of these checks that are being bypassed. And more if I had more time to think about it. The reality is that nurses daily are bullied and pressured into NOT FOLLOWING THE RULES. As long as we continue to punish the minions and not those responsible for the orders we will never eradicate ourselves of this problem. What is the goal of jailing this woman? What is the goal? I'm sure we can find any reason to put her in jail, she's no angel, I'm sure. But if the goal is to rectify this issue of bypassing checks the responsibility needs to be pushed upwards. These administrators get to make so much money off of pushing us to do these things, why not share in the burden?

This is what I sent to the DA, Mr. Funk: Mr. Funk, ACCOMPLICE - someone who intentionally does something to encourage or help another person to commit a crime. If you are sending this woman, Ms. Vaught to jail for something you call a crime, what about the person who directed her to commit this crime? I applaud you in your attempt to rectify this horrible situation with Ms. Vaught. I however see weakness in your attempt. I and countless other nurses are placed in this very exact situation daily, especially in the ER. I've done it, many other nurses have done it. While you are prosecuting her for the patient in the scanner, her 4, 5, or 6 other patients with heart attacks, strokes, etc were waiting for her in their rooms. Doctors orders pile up, medications for stroke, heart attack meds, ordered. No one to give it but us, and someone asks us to run down to the scanner and "quickly give this med." By luck and grace we usually get away with this unscathed. However, by putting this woman in jail you are doing nothing. She will go to jail and the PEOPLE that direct this sort of behavior will continue to run their hospitals and receive bonus' larger than your yearly pay. They will continue to ask 21 and 22 year old kids to do this over and over. Threaten to take away their livelihood if they do not, and bully them until they finally give in, bypass the checks in place and do what is asked of them. Yes, put the weak ones in jail and the new ones will fall into the same pit. I don't want to make suggestions to you that are more than you can handle, but I want to ASSURE you, that this practice will continue long after you are gone with your chosen path. You want to provide justice? Prosecute along with her those who ordered her to do this. Why put the prostitute in jail and not the John? I'm sure if you even attempted to try and prosecute any administrator in the hospital, the powers that be would probably have your head and your job. But you would be honoring a system of justice. It wasn't her bright idea to give this med. She probably would have been charting, or sitting, or using the bathroom. Instead someone told her to do this wrong. That same person, unscathed, will continue to order their subordinates to do so, with consequences if they do not. So good luck with this path of prosecuting caregivers for doing exactly what they are told. You are well within your rights of doing so, but to what end? If it's to jail some sad broken poor woman, you can easily do that. But if you are attempting to enact change, to right an error before it possibly happens to you then you are going about it completely wrong. If you constantly attack the minions and not the boss, you will get nowhere. Minions are minions, they can always be replaced; but you already knew that.

The problem that no one is mentioning is the system. I've run down to CT and given meds in a hurry to a patient I didn' t know... with an assignment of cp and strokes and sepsis patients of my own! And that's in cali with ratio's. I gave a patient IM dilaudid in a fast track area and was bullied by the physician and the charge nurse because I insisted on monitoring the patient before he went home. They wanted me to dc him home with DILAUDID. This wasn't the only time. The doctor left me there alone and went home because he felt it was unnecessary to monitor the patient. of course the patient almost died and I had to check him back in during my monitoring period. But the pressure for nurses to bypass the system is so strong that it takes a terribly strong person who is able to tolerate much bullying to deal with this. I have endured going out of ratio because I insisted on monitoring my patient when taking a new med. I was given an extra patient to take over "when I was done" right outside of the hallway of the patient I was monitoring. I do understand that we are a profession and we have responsibilities. And I can see this nurse should be held responsible, but shouldn't also the people who asked her to do that be held just as responsible? Should the charge nurse and administrators who did not allow for the right thing to happen also be prosecuted. I'm sure this nurse had an assignment. Was she in charge of 4 other people with orders piling up (responsibilities) while she was in radiology giving that medication? What about those patients? What if one of her patients in her room died of a massive heart attack because she was in radiology pushing a medication? In most of the hospitals I've worked in there are no scanners in any radiology areas because patients don't get meds there, they get meds in their room. Why was she even asked to give a med in such a place? What there appropriate monitoring equipment in the room such as pulse ox, heart monitor? Was there a proper area for treatment if the patient coded? no, those things are in the room. This is why the patients should get meds in the room. Why was she even asked to give meds to a sick patient in a place where appropriate treatment could not be provided if the patient coded? Which they did. Not that the nurse shouldn't be held responsible, but honestly so should the people who asked her to do such an irresponsible thing. Why charge the prostitute and not the John? The charge nurse and administrative personell hold rank above us nurses and ask us daily to do things that are illegal and when we refuse they laugh in our faces and ask someone else who doesn't know better or have the guts to say no. This is what should end. You can jail this person, but the mistake will continue to happen because it wasn't her bright idea. She was told to do this by a superior. She was told to BYPASS CHECKS by her superior! If she goes, those who meditated with her to commit this crime of bypassing checks should go with her. Now that will be justice served. But as per usual, the doctor will make the decisions and give the orders and the nurses with burn when the problems arrive. I wonder when we as a society will get tired of watching our family members die so some hospital administrator can make their bonus for the year.