GrumpyRN NP

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

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    Advice please

    GrumpyRN replied to NicKi0410's topic in General Nursing

    Do you think that only US nurses work 12 hour shifts? Are you really that parochial? I spent years working 12 hour shifts but NEVER did a 16 hour shift. Kind of proves my point. Oh...
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    Personal Deathbed Vision Stories?

    GrumpyRN replied to poppyboo's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Thank you for the, I want to say complement, but I'm not sure if that's the right word.?? We would tend to use pass in the past tense. For example, you could say that someone has "passed away"...
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    Using Your Nursing Credentials to Validate Anti-Vaxxer Theories

    GrumpyRN replied to Helen Crump's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh she certainly does. Even her family have disowned her; "My mum is definitely beyond help... It's impossible to talk to somebody when they've got that level of God complex" Sebastian Shemirani....
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    Advice please

    GrumpyRN replied to NicKi0410's topic in General Nursing

    Are you sure? I hear plenty of stories on this site of nurses working 12 - 16 hour days plus other sites complain about long working hours in the US. "U.S. Workers Put in Staggeringly More Hours...
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    Using Your Nursing Credentials to Validate Anti-Vaxxer Theories

    GrumpyRN replied to Helen Crump's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A nurse who denies the existence of Covid-19 and discourages people from getting vaccinated has been struck off the nursing register. "A Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness-to-practise panel...
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    Personal Deathbed Vision Stories?

    GrumpyRN replied to poppyboo's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Don't change your views, at worst it is hypoxia at best it could be used as proof of life after death. Nothing, and I repeat, nothing, to do with a "superior" being or "god like" figure. Certainly...
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    Advice please

    GrumpyRN replied to NicKi0410's topic in General Nursing

    Oooops!! Sorry, I did miss the 2 weeks. Ignore me and carry on. To OP, I hope it works out for you and you get the advice you
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    Advice please

    GrumpyRN replied to NicKi0410's topic in General Nursing

    Very slightly off topic but... Do none of you Americans think that working 80 hour or 64 hour weeks continuously is excessive? Is this normal? If so, no wonder you are stressed and getting PTSD....
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We have not politicised the vaccine (or masking) here but still some people will not take it for "reasons" none of which make sense to me. These people are not vilified or ostracized but the...
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    Doctor refuses to treat the unvaccinated

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Except it is not an ER problem. So send them back to their own doctor. Oh dear, no doctor? Then too bad. Take responsibility for YOUR decisions for YOUR child. Remember I am not in US so any...
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    Locustman

    GrumpyRN replied to Davey Do's topic in Ars Gratia Artis's Artis

    Oooooooooohhhhhhh!!
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You do know I'm not
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As opposed to the world taking the mRNA vaccines? Your tinfoil helmet is
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    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    YES!!! Can I make it any plainer. I'm fed up stating this and providing
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    COVID vaccine passport

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Nursing Humor

    Seriously, there is not one part of that that is funny and under no stretch should it be included in "Nursing Humour." Do you care about anyone's health records at any other time - no of course...
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    Liquid Oxygen shortage spreads through Southern U.S. due to COVID-19

    GrumpyRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh dear, will you be going the same way India did? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56940595
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    Termination From Employer For Refusing EUV

    GrumpyRN replied to RaineyRN7's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And this is why I know that you have no medical knowledge. You stated "There's plenty of other contagious diseases killing in large numbers being spread unknowingly," then give us a list with only (at...
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    Termination From Employer For Refusing EUV

    GrumpyRN replied to RaineyRN7's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And my work here is done. ETA, I know you will still get notifications that I have posted and I just know that it will drive you up the wall enough that you will have to look.
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    How Geert Vanden Bossche is Destroying American Herd Immunity https://medika.life/how-geert-vanden-bossche-is-destroying-american-herd-immunity/ Geert Vanden Bossche Stokes Fear of...
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    Termination From Employer For Refusing EUV

    GrumpyRN replied to RaineyRN7's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I answered a specific point you made but you still turn it around so that somehow it is my fault. I'm sorry that I'm more intelligent and better informed than you are. I'm sorry that you seem unable...
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    Termination From Employer For Refusing EUV

    GrumpyRN replied to RaineyRN7's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "A person's immunity always drops to some degree following immunization or natural infection, said Dr. Greg Poland, director of the Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn....
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yet you do it anyway. Yet your most recent juvenile response is immediately above that post, and I quote; "You're all in the kool aid n don't know the flavor. ?" You continue...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    How the h*** did you "stay immune?" Nobody has immunity, the vaccinated don't have immunity, the previous infected don't have immunity. They are still at risk of catching it but at a reduced level....
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    C'mon macawake, you know it is much more fun for Jive Turkey to imagine that they are being insulted personally whenever someone points out the flaws in their argument. That way they get to play the...
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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    GrumpyRN replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The book is a bestseller, selling over 1.2 million copies in the United States, and is popular with prison inmates and celebrities. (Wikipedia) Which are you? Inmate or