SummitRN BSN, RN

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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The plural of anecdote is not data. That doesn't make the anecdote false, but to extrapolate past the anecdotal is special
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That isn't the reason it was removed from virtually all vaccines, not just those for infants under the age of six months. Note the timing on the review as right after the 1998 Wakefield MMR debacle....
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Because MATH. If you don't understand why this is the case, then I have just the thing for you to read: UNDERSTANDING HERD IMMUNITY...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A few do... but not the ones like Andi78 with closed minds and pathological emotional investment in their position. They'll ignore facts, present the flimsiest disproven opinion as fact, malign...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yep... he waited 9 months to have
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't wish anything bad for you, but I am frightened you are endangering your patients if you are "educating" your patients using the non-scientific antivaxxer tripe you've been spewing here. If you...
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    Understanding Herd Immunity from Vaccination - How much is enough?

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to do some of your own epidemologicla modeling, here are two FREE modeling packages available: Reed Frost SIR (limited population) model courtesy of Colorado State University Reed-Frost...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    andi and others, thought this would be a good time to link to the article I wrote: Herd Immunity and Vaccination: How much is enough?...
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    Need advice on nursing/pt relationship post discharge

    SummitRN replied to NurseJackie87's topic in General Nursing

    I respect the OP for acting on her doubts and asking here, then maturely reflecting on the responses and realizing the right
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What do you think would happen without invasive, freedom compromising, protective public health measures were not taken? How many more states and more people would be infected? Why are those measures...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Actually, the measles around now is virtually identical to the measles you were vaccinated for. Different viruses mutate at varying speeds, and some viruses have many strains, others do not. Measles...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Statistics is not a universal prerequirement for nursing programs. Frankly, many evidenced based practice courses, for the programs that have them, are sadly little more than a review of middle school...
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    Stories of the pre-vaccine days

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is known as the Nocebo effect. More here: Nocebo -
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No. It has no nursing accreditation (ACEN), nor regional academic accreditation. Sure it has state approval to operate or it wouldn't exist... but that is not accreditation. Unless you mean ACICS,...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    why would anyone be worried about that 8% of population in California that is not vaccinated? In the current Measles outbreak 8% of the population is responsible for 80-90% of the spread of the...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    aubrienora is a student who is so confident in her beliefs, that she won't listen to anything you have to say... but she does have a pathological need to come and convince us she is right... because...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Nice snark... haven't seen you respond to the evidence showing that the "too many vaccines too fast" position you support is
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You are the one banking of fear and emotion. Everyone understands that vaccines are risk vs benefit. You have failed to understand that the risks are minuscule and the benefits huge. You have been...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    klone I've read your posts for many years and we are almost always in agreement. So to in this thread.... except... I cannot figure out where you are coming from on this "overhwelming baby's immune...
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    Stories of the pre-vaccine days

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Depends on the flavor of anti-vaxxer... some of them actually believe that vaccines don't do much and that diseases like smallpox were headed for extinction without vaccines. Don't ask what mental...
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    Stories of the pre-vaccine days

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Smallpox is eradicated per WHO. It is no longer endemic in any human population and the last known infection was in the 1970s. We don't vaccinate the public for it anymore. The only samples that exist...
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    Stories of the pre-vaccine days

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have scars on my face from chicken pox. I had it bad at age 6. My wife had a reaction to the DTaP and couldn't complete the series. She contracted pertussis from a nonvaccinated child (large...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Your username... is... KOOKY... very appropriate. I wonder how many of the vaccine conspiracy theorists also believe that 9-11 was a Jewish plot, that Chemtrails are a real plot to sterilize the...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Actually... all those "other things" you said are EXACTLY what Jenny McCarthy has been saying in addition to the autism BS. Almost all of it is couched in ignorance based fear and highly emotional...
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    Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    SummitRN replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sure you catch more flies with honey... a valid point, especially when educating or having an honest debate. But people with deeply emotional faith based beliefs (whether that is homeopathy or...