Lorri Cook

The cells are cultured in the laboratory, don't contain any original tissue and very little DNA.

Once again, it's nice for the folks who don't seem to get the flu, but another more important point is to raise "herd immunity", and protect society at large.

Just because this nurse happens to not become ill with the flu, does not mean she doesn't carry it.

It's not a belief issue, it's solid science. If I had the possibility of passing along an illness that might kill one of my patients, or be the basis of spreading the disease among a large group of people, some of whom are very young, very old, chronically ill or just immune deficient, the harm I could cause just far outpaces "my beliefs". This is not about you.

Sounds like you should probably mind your own business. You are an employee, and your job description doesn't include making your workplace fair for all. Especially if the politics are against you. As for myself, I concern myself with my own practice, there are enough pitfalls that it takes most of my attention, most days.

Not all non-medical treatment is witchcraft. You should probably point out the articles showing the mass move away from medicine to witchcraft, I'm afraid I've missed that.

I'd leave it at, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. If you must hang around there until you find your next job, get clarification from your DON.

I agree with GG66, you do not want your record to reflect "inappropriate touching", and get a referral to the best nurse-centric lawyer you can find, pronto. I am also sorry this happened...I operate in a no-touch world just for this reason.

If you buy either online at a place like Vitacost, or at Whole Foods or a local food co-op, the product label will state the ingredient for the gel-cap.

Probably will need to not vomit or faint during nursing school as well...

I tend to agree with the comment suggesting getting trained to become an x-ray tech, or an mri tech, both of which pay fairly well, and allow you to avoid bodily fluid exposure. You might train to be a nurse and get over your revulsion, but again, you might not. In school, you have to learn the basics of patient care, and after graduation, you need to get some patient care experience to move beyond bedside nursing, and that's a lot of blood, BM and sputum in the meantime. You also don't explain why you want to become a nurse, all of which reasons you have to be able to hang onto to get through the parts of nursing school which are difficult. If you can come up with 5 good reasons to endure something you know ahead of time you can't tolerate, and you feel exposure to these things won't make you throw in the towel, go for it. It's hard, but people do it every day. Good luck.

Beans, steamed vegetables, salads, rice and other grains, whole wheat breads are basic foods that are not at all complicated. I would think most registered dietitians could handle it.

Amen.

If you are on a paleo diet, you're generally on it to lose weight. If you are on a vegan diet, you have chosen to avoid all animal products, often for humanitarian reasons, sometimes for health reasons. They're each very different, and if you are a vegan, most regular diets are no substitute.

Amen to working with nurses from the Phillipines, and to potluck lumpia and pancit!