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Any Nurse who has worked Critical Care knows that setting and infusing Iv's is part of the technical aspect. Anyone knows who has an education that any person who has a severe infection when started on Antibiotics will get worse as the bacteria releases its toxins as it dies so people can turn for the worse in Seconds. you can give someone report and two minutes later they are coding. Sepsis; ARDS, Resp. or Hemodynamic failure can happen in the blink of an eye. What you are describing as your care is all technical, not really nursing. Believe me; patient's can tell the difference between someone who is only technical and someone who is technical but also caring or a Real Nurse. You say rubbing somone's back is sissy, You obviously do not understand Human physiology. Maybe you should go back to school and get your BSN or MSN. It might teach you something. Or god forbid; you become a patient your self.

Dinah 77; its unfortunate you think of your profession as just a job! You are suppose to be a Healer; not just another joker taking a paycheck. You obviously have gotten into the wrong profession. I am glad I am not your patient or my family members for that matter, because you don't seem to have the heart for this type of endeavor. this isn't just a job, This is a life, a profession, where we continue to learn for the remainder of our lives to provide the best care possible and maintain our License. if it was just a Job, you wouldn't have to have a license, and you wouldn't have to continue you education until you decide you no longer want to practice. You have the privilege of caring for peoples lives. Maybe you and everyone else that is thinking of walking out should just go ahead and give up your license. You don't have the temperament for nursing. Nursing-the profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm. When was the last time you took care of someone and actually gave the patient a cool wash cloth or a Back rub just to make them feel better?

what you all are not considering is the fact that you took an oath to be a Nurse and to assist the physician and patients. By Not going to work you are abandoning your job, your profession, and your Colleagues. What if you became ill and there were no nurses willing to care for you? or your family? The Nurses these days (Millennial's) don't seem to have the same Work or professional ethic that we older Nurses have (Babyboomers) Its too bad! What happened to you all. You all think you are so Entitled and don't really seem to care about your fellow neighbors, or colleagues. If you don't go in, I hope your BRN revokes your license because you don't deserve it.

Imagine if everyone refused to care for Covid patients! Where would we be then? Imagine if everyone refused to care for SARS1, H1n1, patients, HIV patients, HepA, HEPB, or any pandemic patients; our country would collapse. You Should have N95 or N100 respirators; but somebody has to care for those patients. imagine if it was you or your family that was ill.

Nurse lexi, You took an Oath when you became a nurse. It obviously doesn't mean anything to you. Sometimes as a nurse you have to take chances and maybe put your life on the line to save others. Just like stopping at an auto accident or some other event. if you are not willing to do that, you shouldn't call yourself a Nurse. It is not the hospitals fault they do not have the PPE! it is the Federal Govt. that failed to prepare for this calamity. They Knew it was coming! In 2018. President trump disassembled the pandemic task force. He had many experts telling him that a pandemic was going to happen, just a matter of when. But he failed to listen to their alerts.

As a Nurse you took an oath to Help people. sometimes it requires taking chances and putting your life on the line. If you are not willing to do that; you should not be a Nurse.

You know unfortunately our government did not protect us as they should have; but being a Nurse means that you may have to put your life on the line to save others. I was a Disaster Nurse for DMATCA4 and DMATCA6 for seven years for NDMS; HOME LAND SECURITY after 911. Taking care of people with unknown disorders or going into Austere environments is what nurses do. I do feel for you though , we should have the appropriate equipment to keep us as safe as possible for the circumstances we are working. It doesn't make you a coward to expect to have the appropriate PPE. Our Govt. dismantled the pandemic task force in 2018. That is why our response is so poor. Take care of your self and your family. if you don't take care of your self; you can't take care of others. Jeffrey J. Keely,BSN,PHN,RN. CA