dinah77

dinah77 ADN

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  1. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    dinah77 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Dang, this is all terrible. I know I sound like a broken record on all of these discussions related to this issue, but for god's sake everyone organize your workplaces if they're not already union....

  2. COVID-19 and extinction of human species

    dinah77 replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    However I stand by my comment of what How China counted infected as problematic because we do not know what their standard for “symptomatic”

  3. COVID-19 and extinction of human species

    dinah77 replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You are correct I misspoke. I meant to rant about risk ratio at the

  4. Am I a coward for going on FMLA due to COVID?

    dinah77 replied to ML1376's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh you clearly are taking a stance, despite your unwillingness to claim one. Please miss me with your “the job was always riskier in this regard” We signed up for a job with adequate pay that in...

  5. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Beautifully stated. It’s really appalling what so many nurses and workers in general have been trained to accept it just makes me want to scream “THE OPPRESSION IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!”...

  6. COVID-19 and extinction of human species

    dinah77 replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    fwiw I just recalculated and the number is much lower, closer to .3% HOWEVER, these are all just estimates- I just saw an article today claiming that China's official numbers are actually much higher...

  7. Am I a coward for going on FMLA due to COVID?

    dinah77 replied to ML1376's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I would just like to make a plug for unions. There may not be union hospitals in your area, but if there are and anyone on this thread is not union, go to work there and never look back. Or consider...

  8. COVID-19 and extinction of human species

    dinah77 replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No. Just.... no. I’m sorry but your math is not accurate here. we still do not have an accurate case fatality rate on covid 19. In order to do that, we need to know the total number infected,...

  9. Am I a coward for going on FMLA due to COVID?

    dinah77 replied to ML1376's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Spot on. Like I said in another form, I don’t know what’s up with these martyr types, but I have a lot to live for, a lot of friends and family who love me and I love dearly there is zero chance...

  10. Am I a coward for going on FMLA due to COVID?

    dinah77 replied to ML1376's topic in Disaster Preparation

    First of all we are all human first and foremost. Our only "part"in this crisis is to stay healthy and do our jobs to the best of our abilities. For the OP, his best means stepping down for awhile....

  11. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Um, why is this definitely not the

  12. Coronavirus-Are we ready to talk about rationing care?

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I read that book for my medical ethics class for my MPH program January of 2019 we also had a discussion about how to ration care if “there is a global influenza pandemic that requires rationing of...

  13. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And let’s not forget that management absolutely knows our proclivities to jump in and help and will exploit the hell out of

  14. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You hit the nail on the head here, with this and all the comments you’ve added. it’s pathetic that so many nurses have decided we get what we get and should just shut up about it I don’t know...

  15. RN Disciplined While Waiting On Covid 19 Result

    dinah77 replied to INDY RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I totally understand. But bear in mind they need you more. I'm not sure of your situation, but try to remember that especially in the coming weeks, hospitals are gonna be begging anyone with any...

  16. DON'T BE A MARTYR: There is No Emergency in a Pandemic

    dinah77 posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    *I want to be clear this not my original post- I would love to credit the OP, but I have no idea who that is Please take the time to read this. Especially to all the healthcare workers I know who...

  17. RN Disciplined While Waiting On Covid 19 Result

    dinah77 replied to INDY RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    so not okay! Call the media, immediately- drag those shameful

  18. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Feel free to repost- the number of nurses who’ve drank the capitalistic kool aid is

  19. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    bUt nUrSeS sHoULd bE mArTyRs and apparent lie down and take all manner of abuse

  20. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Just for the record, I was not trying to make it about doc vs nurse. But I do find someone who is not currently a nurse, and not doing direct patient care telling those of us on the front line what we...

  21. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    None of us signed up for a job that would not provide us adequate protection. I bet you're one of those people who vote GOP because you are sure that one day you will most definitely get your own...

  22. Why hasn’t pay increased? Hazard pay, etc.?

    dinah77 replied to gcupid's topic in Disaster Preparation

    oh dear. Some of us value our lives and our loved ones enough to ask for incentives for dangerous work. I'm sorry you don't value yourself enough YASSSSSS so many people have internalized...

  23. Coronavirus-Are we ready to talk about rationing care?

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://theweek.com/speedreads/900850/doesnt-have-enough-icu-beds-ventilators-deal-even-moderate-coronavirus-outbreak

  24. Coronavirus-Are we ready to talk about rationing care?

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    your comment is just.....yikes. all that moral superiority. People are forced into a situation all the time of choosing and rationing care Or do you honestly believe our existing system can take any...

  25. Coronavirus-Are we ready to talk about rationing care?

    dinah77 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Agreed- Do I think this is the apocalypse? No. I don't even think the much-touted "2.3% fatality rate" is even accurate. I believe it is much lower than that ( somewhere around 0.7%). But, and I...