SmilingBluEyes

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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have no argument against that. But again, being fat, having hypertension, etc, does not affect immediately the health of those of us around us. My being overweight is not going to harm or kill the...
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    The Vaccination Gap: Leading with Empathy

    SmilingBluEyes replied to CCMC's topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://abc13.com/us-army-veteran-daniel-wilkinson-michelle-puget-man-dies-waiting-ICU/10983810/ Mother demands change after U.S. Army veteran dies waiting for ICU bed Here is where...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No problem. You just had me scratching my head a
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am not the one arguing that Trump made the vaccine. And everything I wrote was anecdotal. So I have no argument with
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    OK I was military 10 years. I KNEW going in I would be taking vaccines beyond what I had as a child. I accepted that. Yellow fever? Check. HEP A? check. COVID? double check. I would take it...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't think ANYone here says they KNOW it's safe. They are saying it's likely safer and more effective than trying to achieve natural
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am surprised, frankly, as well. Way to not protect our patients and
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What choices would you like? If it's not to vaccinate, given that many places are requiring it, (including nursing schools)--- yes do postpone. Some people's health can't afford for us NOT to...
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    Susceptible to Misinformation: Why Do We Believe What We Believe?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We’re all subject to emotionally based reasoning, biases and faulty reasoning. When we make a decision, such as whether or not to vaccinate, we evaluate a barrage of information through our...
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    How do you handle difficult team members?

    SmilingBluEyes replied to lexieanders's topic in General Nursing

    Well not much you can do from your position. IF she is friends with influential people, you are at a distinct disadvantage. Can you move
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    Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Fled years ago. Ain't going back. And therein lies one of my biggest problems. Watching new nurses start just under what it took me 10 years or more to make. I am SO DONE with being...
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    I Think I'm Done With Nursing

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I was "done" a couple years ago. But alas, my bills say otherwise. I wish I could do something else. Maybe sell insurance. I dunno. I am tired of it
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I know a ton of Trump and Biden supporters across many states who not once ever said that he (Trump) created the vaccine..... This is stunning to
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    So, It's Come To This...

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Jedrnurse's topic in Disaster Preparation

    But as we see here, they presume too
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    REALLY? wow I have not met
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    1600 mile transfer for bed

    SmilingBluEyes replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    This is indeed scary and just what many of us fear. What happens when a loved one is in a car wreck or has a cardiac event requiring ICU/hospitalization? Where will that put them? We have had a...
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    Medical Board Says, "Stop Issuing Bogus Mask Exemptions to Students"

    SmilingBluEyes replied to sirI's topic in Disaster Preparation

    She is scary as hell. Just scary. And foul mouthed. What a nice Christian
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    Using Your Nursing Credentials to Validate Anti-Vaxxer Theories

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Helen Crump's topic in Disaster Preparation

    When you put it like that I see your point. But this pandemic stands to kill millions in fairly short order, so I feel in this case, spreading around bad information should be looked at and corrected...
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    Doctor refuses to treat the unvaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No I am sure if Little Timmy's throat is sore, and the parents have not vaccinated, the doctor would not immediately kick them out of his/her practice. But if they persist in non-vaccination,...
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    Using Your Nursing Credentials to Validate Anti-Vaxxer Theories

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Helen Crump's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I want to believe it's not nefarious, spreading disinformation. But my gut says otherwise. And if it's true, yes any nurse/doctor/pharmacist should lose their license for propagating such bad...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Why use TOR? Do educate me. Cause as far as I have known from what I have read it is indeed
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    An obese person is not going to make me or my family obese simply by breathing on me. It's as simple as that. Anything else is indeed,
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    SmilingBluEyes replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Hardly a reputable way to defend one's position against vaccination using the TOR browser! Why does it even need to be either/or? I got vaccines all my life as a healthy person. I did not...
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    Using Your Nursing Credentials to Validate Anti-Vaxxer Theories

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Helen Crump's topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2021/08/11/dan-stock-indiana-doctors-viral-mt-vernon-school-board-testimony-full-misinformation/5551476001/ An Indiana doctor's COVID comments went...
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    Using Your Nursing Credentials to Validate Anti-Vaxxer Theories

    SmilingBluEyes replied to Helen Crump's topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://www.newson6.com/story/610dec9ac97a800be7f69785/doctors-contributing-to-vaccine-misinformation-could-lose-their-license Doctors Contributing To Vaccine Misinformation Could Lose Their...