herring_RN ASN, BSN

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    Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    herring_RN replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    An article written by a woman with a Masters in poetry and who teaches English. Despite the title, she is not a nurse. What I Wish Someone Told Me BEFORE Becoming a Registered Nurse We all think we...
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    Riots in Minneapolis

    herring_RN replied to TomPaine's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I haven't met the nurse this is about. Las Palmas nurses say hospital retaliated against them over their allegation of racism Two registered nurses say Las Palmas Medical Center turned their...
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    Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Regarding Sweden's death rate:
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    Trump Admin Will Protect Health Workers Who Refuse Services On Religious Grounds

    herring_RN posted a topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    January 18, 2018 Health care workers who want to refuse to treat patients because of religious or moral beliefs will have a new defender in the Trump administration. The top civil rights official at...
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    Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    herring_RN replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sufficient staffing is best for patients and best for nurses. This study was done in 2002, but I believe it is relevant today. The researchers showed that safe staffing saves lives and increases...
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    Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Our scientists and especially our Front line physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists have learned from colleagues has well as contributing to our knowledge of how to best treat COVID-19. Our...
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    Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Dr. Hilary Fairbrother, associate prof. of Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, says the politicization of public health in the United States has led to...
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    Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    US has 4% of the world’s population, but more than 25% of global coronavirus cases ... According to data provided by Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, there were 2,910,023 confirmed...
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    Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    herring_RN replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    For decades WE who provided direct nursing care (LVN, CNA, and RN) respiratory therapists, therapists (PT, OT, and others, our wonderful unit clerks/secretaries, Lab Techs and phlebotomists, radiology...
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    HELP. Is it legal for hospitals to put us out of ratio due to the pandemic?

    herring_RN replied to Tvu1109's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Welcome to nursing in California! I'm a retired California hospital nurse. Feel free to ask any questions and I will do my best to answer. Each hospital must plan for providing sufficient staff at...
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    Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    PLEASE! Let's not get thread closed. If you are in a position where you feel you have been personally attacked, do not respond to that attack. Please report the post by clicking on the report...
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    US intelligence says Russian spy unit paid Taliban to attack US troops

    herring_RN posted a topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    A Russian spy unit paid members of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement to conduct lethal attacks on U.S. troops in that country, according to a classified American intelligence assessment, people...
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    US intelligence says Russian spy unit paid Taliban to attack US troops

    herring_RN replied to herring_RN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Benghazi probe offers a road map for Trump’s Russian bounty briefing Lawmakers demanding to know whether President Donald Trump and his inner circle ignored intelligence about Russian bounties on...
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    Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Community Use Of Face Masks And COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural Experiment Of State Mandates In The US HEALTH AFFAIRS 39, NO. 8 (2020): 1–7 ©2020 Project HOPE— The People-to-People Health...
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    Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The opinion was published April 1, 2020. Studies showing the efficacy of masks AND instancing reduce the spread of VOVID-19. From the link: ... "Surgical masks likely have some utility as source...
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    Texas governor to residents: "The safest place for you is at your home" due Covid-19 spike

    herring_RN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "The Lancet" medical journal found that “face mask use could result in a large reduction in risk of infection.” https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736(20)31142-9 "Health Affairs"...
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    Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    herring_RN replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you! I mostly agree. Suffering in silence is not good for anyone. When we were already short staffed and the for-profit management announce they would lay off 25% of RNs and replace them with...
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    Covid-19 Vaccine Trials in South Africa: Another Tuskegee? #Black Lives Matter Around the World

    herring_RN replied to simba and mufasa's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Healthcare worker unions explain their concerns Access to appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) has been a key concern for healthcare workers since early in South Africa’s COVID-19...
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    Covid-19 Vaccine Trials in South Africa: Another Tuskegee? #Black Lives Matter Around the World

    herring_RN replied to simba and mufasa's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This clinical trial has not started yet COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) Trial in South African Adults With and Without HIV-infection Sponsor: University of Witwatersrand, South Africa...
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    Will Covid cause huge transfer of wealth out of hands of middle class?

    herring_RN replied to Emergent's topic in Disaster Preparation

    In 1852, the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association invited abolitionist, activist and statesman Frederick Douglass to spoke at their July Fourth Independence Day Celebration in Rochester, N.Y....
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    Covid-19 Vaccine Trials in South Africa: Another Tuskegee? #Black Lives Matter Around the World

    herring_RN replied to simba and mufasa's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We MUST do all possible to avoid taking advantage of people. I think at minimum the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guiding Principles should be followed. I'll post a small section: Potential...
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    Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    herring_RN replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I do not think it unfortunate to identify as a nurse. After about 84,000 hours caring for hospital patients and working countless hours with fellow nurses to win safe staffing standards for our state...
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    What is a reasonable nurse: patient ratio in ICU?

    herring_RN replied to Kitiger's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Frightening that you can't care for your patients. This is SO WRONG! Is there anything we can do? Write letters to your state board, health department, CMS, or
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    Pools and massages: Yes or No?

    herring_RN replied to MarkMyWords's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Considerations for Public Pools, Hot Tubs, and Water Playgrounds During COVID-19 Public aquatic venues can consider different strategies to encourage healthy hygiene, including: Hand Hygiene and...
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    Coronavirus Second Wave?

    herring_RN replied to sirI's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I hope so. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-immunity-covid-higher-shown.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/cell-mediated-immunity...