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I don't come on this forum often but it's good to see that you're still having pretend arguments with yourself.

Correct. That sums it up for any non-union job.

And here I was thinking push pause.

Or bleach. Whatever kills it in a minute. Also, can someone explain to me why pulmonary tanning hasn't been tried yet? Thank goodness Alex Azar put a labradoodle breeder with no public health or medical qualifications in charge of putting the coronavirus task force together. Maybe he can help look into why these ideas haven't been tried yet.

No judgement here. I'd need anesthesiologist money to even consider working bedside in a hospital. It's just a job. Unless you feel like it's your calling or whatever but I don't get that impression from your post. Thankfully there are a lot of different career paths in nursing. Having a year in acute care under your belt will be helpful. How about trying home care or some other kind of outpatient setting? Maybe you have a soft spot for kids and would like to work for an agency that provides care to disabled children? Maybe you like to form relationships w/ your patients and would like working as a dialysis nurse for awhile? Ambulatory centers etc won't be hiring now obviously but you could try that out later.. Anyway, my point is, if you don't love hospital nursing, that's OK. Try out some other paths to find something that fits better.

Search this forum for "I hate nursing" or "burnout". There are a ton of threads about how much people hate their jobs because bedside nursing is drudgery for which you have an enormous amount of responsibility and very little to no authority. I honestly cannot think of a number that would make me move to bedside nursing in a hospital - not kidding, even if I was offered 300k/year, I wouldn't do it. Here's an example from when I was on rotation, how do you feel about spending some quality time with an alcoholic on lactulose 30ml BID and a rectal tube? Guess what? Rectal tubes leak. Imagine the smell of their breath, the leering comments and the knowledge that everything you're doing to treat them (virtually all of which must be ordered by a provider - you're just a nurse) is useless because this person has a disease that will cause them to continue to poison themselves. He's been in the hospital a million times and he'll keep coming back until he's dead. If you love the hospital setting (strong overhead lights, beeping machines, squeaky floors, smell of disinfectant and poop, fear, hope, dread), you enjoy people so much that you don't mind when they're disgusting (which is frequent in the hospital), and you're totally cool with doctors and prescribers giving you orders that you must follow while you have no authority, than maybe it's for you. I'd strongly suggest shadowing a nurse if you can before jumping into anything.

I know. I've worked in pharmacy for many years and work w/ a new PharmD grad right now. He's staring down the same hole the majority of other new PharmD grads in a saturated market are. Still. Move. Get a job in Minnesota or whatever. I'm kidding about MN, I have no clue where the actual need is but I've heard many times that if you're willing to move, you can get a job. Guess what they were telling us nurse grads when I graduated? Move. The market's supersaturated here. Go on to get a higher degree or move. You won't get a job w/out experience. So... not seeing a big difference between the job prospects as a new grad in either profession. Going to nursing school would just = more debt. The OP should find a job as a pharmacist wherever he/she can. They can always move back to wherever they want to be once they have a couple of years of experience.

Oh, I see. Yes, I agree with you. The politicians would be raising it as a general concern if they received enough emails not naming names.

Derrick Smith, CRNA, tells a story of the "terrifying reality" revealed in the tragic last words of a dying man he was about to place on a ventilator: "Who's going to pay for it?" the coronavirus patient asked Smith in between labored breaths. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/11/health/nurse-last-words-coronavirus-patient-trnd/index.html

Number 2 is a winner. Everyone is going to click on that.

Probably not but if it's local politicians and enough nurses contacted them it, it might.

Yep. I'm in management, trust me when I say that management cares inasmuch as it doesn't affect their extra slice of the pie. Advocating for something that would cost their organization serious money could definitely alter the trajectory of their career. This holds true for bedside nurses as well. To be clear, this is true in all BUSINESSES. Healthcare is a business in America. Even the "non-profits" top people are making millions a year. Again, healthcare is a business like any other in America. This should not surprise anyone.

Yes. Keep looking for a job as a pharmacist.

I completely agree w/ you and was also disheartened to see the original post you're talking about garner approximately zero response. It's all about marketing. Sad but true. Make the title of the post sexy like you did on this one. Drama is click bait. I don't have a suggestion because I can't think of an exciting way to put - "Shocker - You actually deserve to be paid if you contract COVID-19 while working bedside". Maybe "Management are scumbags that will screw you in every way you let them so don't let them"? Seriously though - make a change.org petition for this issue and post links to it here every day. If it's easy to sign the petition people might do it. If it gets enough signatures, send an explanation email and link to the petition to various media outlets. Hopefully, we'll see you on the news soon.

I've seen mention of this possibility from cases in China as well. However, with a suspected false negative rate of as high as 30% on the PCR tests these could have been false negatives when the viral load was low. Either way it is interesting that the disease course appears to have an initial recovery phase and then a relapse of varying severity in some people.