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When a grown adult picks their nose and eats it in public ! GROSS!!!
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MOST Memorable (or Unforgettable) COVID Moment A patient’s chest rises and falls rhythmically as the machine pumps in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide with a hissing sound. The patient in the room is ventilated, intubated, sedated. A respiratory therapist paused at the glass doorway. Her words are a mix of melancholy and matter-of-factness. She has seen so much death, she knows the signs. We all did. A few hours later, the patient will become another data point among others killed by the corona-virus in the USA. But in this moment, he’s not a statistic. He’s a flesh-and-blood person in a losing fight for survival. He has a face, a name, a 40-year history full of childhood memories, achievements, loves, failures, family. Family members cannot understand why their loved ones are dying. As America’s medical workers struggle with the pandemic – death, suffering, fatigue, stress and fears of infection – helping families through denial, grief and anger has added to the trauma. Their loved one couldn't breathe, so a tube was inserted into his trachea, pumping oxygen. That requires sedation, which means he needed an intravenous line for fluids, a catheter to extract urine and dialysis to cleanse his blood. These heroic measures are explained to the family. These measures are keeping him alive. There is talk from the family of transferring the patient to another hospital so more can be done. It was explained to the family that this infection started out as COVID but has progressed to multiple organ failure. The subject of comfort care was addressed. Topics of cutting back on medications, letting the patient go comfortably, issuing a DNR. The patient, in a glass-enclosed, negative-pressure room, does not flinch, has no say. The family is unwilling, unable. All healthcare professionals realize the families are looking to blame, they were hurting, we were hurting, all of us were grieving. A sign over the nurse station quotes: “The most powerful weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. Train your mind to see the good in this day.” During some of these days and months, there was no good.
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Nurses Refusing to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations!? | Nurses Week Contest Should a nurse be allowed to refuse to give vaccinations? Why?' My answer needs to be based, in part, on the law related to previous vaccines, influenza. There are no state or federal laws that either require an employee to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or that protect an employee who refuses vaccination against COVID-19 or refuses administering the vaccine. It will take a while after the vaccine is approved and distributed before reactions, policies, cases, and laws begin to emerge. Some healthcare professionals strongly feel that if people want this vaccine, they should receive it. But just like it’s their choice to receive it or not, the healthcare professionals feel like it should also be their choice to give it or not. So, yes, until the laws change, a nurse should be allowed to refuse to give the vaccine. Studies involving tens of thousands of people found that the two vaccines approved for emergency use in the U.S. are nearly 95% effective at preventing COVID-19 illness. The studies discovered no major safety problems, although the vaccines do come with a caution about rare, serious allergic reactions. That’s why people are supposed to be observed for 15 minutes after the injection, so any adverse reactions can be treated promptly. But because very rare side effects sometimes can’t be detected until vaccines are given to millions of people, multiple systems now are tracking recipients’ health so authorities can rapidly investigate any reported problems and determine if they’re related to the shots. If we look at the law related to healthcare workers refusing to be vaccinated against the closest relative to COVID-19 — influenza — then the answer would be yes, employers can require employees to be vaccinated. An employer can fire an employee who refuses influenza vaccination. If an employee who refused and was fired sues the employer for wrongful termination, the employee has less chance of success depending on the reason for refusal. Some courts and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have held that a refusal on religious grounds is protected by the US Constitution. A refusal on medical grounds has been successful if the medical grounds fall under the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) but may fail when the medical grounds for the claim are not covered by the ADA. The situation with the COVID-19 vaccine is different from the situation surrounding influenza vaccines. There are plenty of data on effectiveness and side effects of influenza vaccines, but there is very little evidence of short- or long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccines currently being tested and/or considered for approval. One could argue that the process of vaccine development is the same for all virus vaccines. However, public confidence in the vaccine vetting process is not what it once was. It has been widely publicized that the COVID-19 vaccine trials have been rushed. Human beings respond better to empathy and patience than to pressure.
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Dilaudid only comes in this size now.
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When bae says "we need to talk" and you're trying to think of what you did wrong.
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Nursing students caring all the gossip in their minds when they haven't met with their besties in two days.....
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