GrumpyRN NP

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Retired ENP, 35+ years of experience. From Scotland.

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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And with that paragraph you have a) lost the argument, b) shown your prejudices and c) show that you are willing to misrepresent facts. Ad hominem attacks are never a good look when trying to...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You keep saying this^^ all it does is shows you don't understand how vaccines work! Vaccines work by training and preparing the body’s natural defences – the immune system – to recognize...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was going to unpack this litany of nonsense and had started to look up facts, figures and all manner of data and then realised; you appear to be a covid denier so anything I write or say will...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Are you
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Two words; "Herd Immunity." Not everyone had a Smallpox vaccination (I have) but that has been eradicated. We almost got rid of Measles but thanks to stupid people (yes I do mean stupid...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Cockwomble Cockwomble (noun) A person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behavior while generally having a very high opinion of his own wisdom and...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Apology not required ??. A lot of resistance to the vaccine is coming from poor knowledge and/or deliberate misstatements. A problem in US is it is still classified as "experimental" whereas in...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If your parents are Geordies you should let them see this; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-56071386 They can no longer say "coals to Newcastle."
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was going to reply to this nonsense but macawake and nursej22 have said it eloquently
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That was me, and you have still answered your own
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Actually no. People in the USA are not trusting because until recently you had an anti science, anti truth leadership. Not singling out just the US as the UK has a cockwomble of a prime minister...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Exactly, IN THE US!! As has been pointed out, I am not in the US. I have not been snarky, OP asked for an opinion and I gave them mine. JKL33 did not write that quote, I did....
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You ask a question, the part I have bolded, then in the next part shown you answer that
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Exactly, that is something I say every time we have an election. I don't care who you vote for but I do care that you vote. I watched a documentary on exactly this just last night...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What does that have to do with anything? Your statement is out of date and wrong. "Exposure to pesticides and pills containing pyridostigmine bromide (used as a pretreatment to protect against...
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    First Nurse Serial Killer

    GrumpyRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I was browsing a bit and found this; "Niels Högel was already serving a life sentence for the murder of six people when the police started an investigation and found evidence of closer to 100...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Suspenders in the UK are what women wear (and men) to hold up stockings. Think Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter in the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." ? Modern calipers are as you say made of plastic and...
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    First Nurse Serial Killer

    GrumpyRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    OOOOOOOHHHHHH!!! Fight, fight, fight.
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yes, we have always called them calipers. If I said "braces" people would think I meant something to hold your trousers up. A link to the type I meant;...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    GrumpyRN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It's simple really, yes you have the right to refuse the vaccine BUT.... If you have refused (except for documented medical reasons) then you have NO right to comment/complain or otherwise give...
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    Experiment!

    GrumpyRN replied to JKL33's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

    ? I have always said that "peach is not a colour, it is a
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    Experiment!

    GrumpyRN replied to JKL33's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

    OKAAAAYYYYY!!! Not sure where you are going with this Davey but I will bite (probably shouldn't but mehhh nothing ventured, nothing gained) and who knows, it might be fun. Once you did...
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    Chiropractors

    GrumpyRN replied to Davey Do's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    Had a quick look online. Chiropractors in my town charge £50 ($69) for an initial consultation and £33 ($46) per session for subsequent treatment. Chiropractic is not generally offered on the...
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    When patients assault staff

    GrumpyRN replied to CaliRN2019's topic in General Nursing

    Management should always back up their staff. No exceptions. I worked in an ED in the UK and there was sometimes violence. We always prosecuted. Basically it works out as punch a nurse you go to...
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    Needle Arts

    GrumpyRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

    Can I please make it clear that I was not denigrating knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, cross-stitch etc. I was, in my ham-fisted way, trying to be funny and it appears to have been taken slightly...