Hannahbanana BSN, MSN

Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB

Knows a thing or two because she’s seen a thing or two.

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  1. It’s indeed astounding that the privilege we enjoy as a first world country doesn’t make more people grateful for what they could do to protect all of us. I have friends in Tanzania who would give...
  2. Mostly they are protected by vaccine mediated herd immunity to those illnesses if they were born after the boomers. Boomer here. I remember being held home and no swimming at the...
  3. What would have happened to you as a child had your parents decided to “wait and see” on polio vaccines? Or
  4. Saw this today on my Twitter feed: Says it
  5. Not referring to the timing of any mandate. The EUA was issued only a short time ago. I meant to refer to the systematic promotion of distrust of any authority, education, or publishing that has...
  6. Citation, please. How long before? Right after the polio epidemic was resolved? When measles and mumps no longer rendered babies and children deaf or blind? When tetorifice didn’t mean a horrible...
  7. There is historical record that Arab scholars calculated the diameter of the earth loooong before Europeans. That did get found out, LOL. Of course sailing vessels never did fall off the edge of the...
  8. ... Aaaaaaand, when we knew better after applying the scientific process as refined, we taught better. Although I must say there still some flat-earthers out there
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    Pregnant, when do you start light duty?

    I was doing CPR next to a patient in an ICU bed at 8 1/2 months with #1, so there's that. For #2 I was in grad school and not working ICU anymore, but you don't get light duty caring for a 2 year old,...
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    How long am I contagious when vaccinated?

    When I read the title of this thread I said to myself, "Oh, God, another fool who thinks the vaccine will give her COVID and she's gonna be contagious." Thank you SO MUCH for disabusing me of...
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    Order of Credentials

    Never try to wrestle a pig. You both get dirty but the pig enjoys
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    Do pH nurses change their title to doctors?

    Are you sure it’s a LEGAL requirement for the NP to say s/he is not a physician? Because s/he IS a doctor; same with a PhD psychologist. Most lay people think a psychologist, being a “doctor” is...
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    Do pH nurses change their title to doctors?

    Do PhD psychologists who are called “Dr” have to say they aren’t MDs
  14. This reminds me of the famous congressional hearing with the heads of several big tobacco companies saying they “didn’t believe smoking was harmful.” Said with straight faces but clearly their...
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    President's New Mandates For Everyone

    I have family members who are tested weekly if not more often for their jobs in education and national defense. They don’t mind at
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    TX abortion vigilantes

    If the rape is not proven timely (or at all) then the woman or girl, again, bears the punishment,
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    TX abortion vigilantes

    “Being open to” is not the same as accepting and agreeing. When I’ve heard enough, I’ve heard enough. In this case, I’ve heard enough of some
  18. Short answer: wasn’t done at hospital it claimed, data fabricated. Read for yourself. Most-Cited Study Promoting Ivermectin Appears To Be
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    Is this a HIPAA violation?

    A common misconception. It's usually a violation of an institutional rule against accessing their proprietary EHR without a bona fide business reason to to do. So many people misunderstand HIPAA that...
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    TX abortion vigilantes

    Remind me - all of us- again how to block a poster. As a matter of internet
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    TX abortion vigilantes

    That’s because none of them has been “exonerated.” Trump is still under court order to present a DNA sample for one sexual assault (which, if negative, would certainly exonerate him, so one must...
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    TX abortion vigilantes

    :::Taps toes patiently::: It’s not a fine levied by the jurisdiction. It’s the right of anybody to sue somebody for having “aided and abetted.” This is why it’s so pernicious. Intentionally...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    Interesting choice of analogy. It is our duty as citizens to chip in to pay for what our country does to provide for the common welfare in the form of roads, military presence, education, food...
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    The medical examiner’s death certificate will not necessarily tell you in priority order, but it will say something like, “Cardiac failure related to diabetic cardiovascular disease complicated by...
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    Texas vigilante law Re women’s health