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. Let us not forget the immortal (paraphrasing) “Fifteen cases, will all be gone soon,” “Don’t count the cruise ships because they’re not in the US,” and, “Stop with the testing, it makes...
  2. Germany
  3. This is ?? France.
  4. Yes. Just look at Europe were only the surgeon and tech wear masks. This is England. You will note all personnel in the theatre are masked, not just the ones scrubbed
  5. E. coli is spread by contact not an airborne and you talk about my credibility. So care to play again? Precisely my point, sort of— most E. coli spread is fecal-oral, so...
  6. If you cannot tell the difference in size and diffusion between airborne droplets and aromatic gases, then you lack credibility for using that as an exemplar. Care to play again? Or have you...
  7. Would you have surgery performed in an OR where the surgeon and anesthesiologist had everybody in the room
  8. This was a lie, debunked. See this fact check illustrating how their words were cut and pasted from a Tuk-Tok video, not normally cited as an authoritative source....
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    Concerns

    I would love it if this were true but absent legal remedies for libel there is no way to enforce it. Hence we have many “truths” promulgated by the various media. Each medium has its own...
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    Concerns

    I want to add that I'm in a mixed marriage-- conservative R and progressive D. We sat down with these questions, and others related to same-sex marriage, religious exemptions to vaccines, abortion,...
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    Concerns

    I think you’d benefit by putting some more thought into this. Get a paper and pen — studies show that your brain processes ideas and emotions in a different way than when you type in screen. Take...
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    How long am I contagious when vaccinated?

    From the current Atlantic: “Will the vaccines hold? The vaccines remain very good at their original purpose: preventing hospitalization and death. But at this point, they aren’t likely...
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    The Things That Come Out Of Your Mouth...

    That was supposed to be me, I think.
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    How to be hirable as a New Nurse?

    I agree that the STAR plan is a good one, but it presupposes that you have enough meaningful applicable experience to use it. I also agree that PCT experience will expose you to a unit culture and...
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    How long am I contagious when vaccinated?

    Vaccination does not make someone “contagious,” as in, shedding live virus that will make somebody else sick … because vaccination does not introduce live or killed virus into the recipient. It...
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    The Things That Come Out Of Your Mouth...

    Green bananas at our house
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    The Things That Come Out Of Your Mouth...

    I was at a professional organization members meeting, sitting in the back row with my laptop frantically trying to change my cross-country flight home because a huge blizzard was coming in to my home...
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    Working with an unlicensed RN

    Whatever happened in this
  19. … which is why we should all wear our damn
  20. Did you have a sore arm after your tetorifice shot? Have you traveled overseas to Africa, South America, or other places where yellow fever is still a factor, and had a sore arm from that? Is that an...
  21. I get that, but I can see where it's a very confusing message to
  22. If you are vaccinated, you may well be protected from serious disease; even if you have a breakthrough case it will very likely be mild and almost certainly you will not be sick enough to be...
  23. Apples/oranges. Different thread. I beg to differ. Apples and cotter
  24. 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...
  25. 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...