macawake MSN

macawake has 15 years experience as a MSN.

macawake's Latest Activity

1. Natural "Medicine"?

   macawake replied to Allison Minor-Green's topic in General Nursing

   That’s quite a claim you are making. I agree with BostonFNP. I think you need to link the studies that have made you believe this so that we can read them and discuss them. You can’t just claim that essential oils have ”incredible health benefits” an...

2. Roe v. Wade abandoned by Supreme Court

   macawake replied to Ado Annie's topic in Talk Politics

   Does anyone else see the pattern I see? Look at life expectancy, maternal and infant mortality across the various states in the U.S. How are most of the states who already have or are attempting/planning to restrict access to safe abortions faring in...

3. Roe v. Wade abandoned by Supreme Court

   macawake replied to Ado Annie's topic in Talk Politics

   I respect individuals who oppose abortion and choose not to have one. That’s in my opinion each individual’s right. I have zero respect for people who think they have the right to force their will on others. One of the most, if not the most personal ...

4. The Psychology Behind Talking Politics.

   macawake replied to Davey Do's topic in Talk Politics

   I think you’ve touched on an important point here. Much of the media seems extremely polarized, at least cable news. My own goto news sources are more neutral middle-of-the-road but I try to follow at least some of the news in both rightwing and left...

5. The Psychology Behind Talking Politics.

   macawake replied to Davey Do's topic in Talk Politics

   I can’t speak for other posters, but I tend to use ”I believe”, ”in my opinion” or ”I feel” when I want to make it clear that it’s simply my beliefs or opinion I’m sharing. I will sometimes include a link to a source that supports my belief, but most...

6. NPO: When It's OK To Take Meds vs. Not OK To Take Meds

   macawake replied to Kelly Kristen's topic in General Nursing

   I get the feeling that you might be talking about two different categories of NPOs. One who has failed a swallow test and another category of patients who are NPO for another reason, for example before a procedure involving sedation or general anesth...

7. What caught your attention in the world today?

   macawake replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in Talk Politics

   That won’t work on me. I feel no shame for calling you out when you make remarks that do indeed come off as callous and flippant. It seems to me that you feel you should be able to say things like ”I am not judging anyone but I find it sad that ...

8. What caught your attention in the world today?

   macawake replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in Talk Politics

   Hmm.. no. It doesn’t make one wonder. (Just curious, what exactly are we supposed to be wondering?) Your President recently gave a big speech about democracy being under attack. Nothing embodies democracy more than the act of voting. Gi...

9. What caught your attention in the world today?

   macawake replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in Talk Politics

   As a nurse you should know that contraceptives do not work 100% of the time. And we’ll just have to see for how long contraceptives will be ”easily available”, won’t we? ”Simply drop of a newborn with no questions asked”. You make ...

10. President Biden thread

    macawake replied to Beerman's topic in Talk Politics

    I didn’t ask for one. I asked IF it was one (or a nationwide, widespread pattern). I had no idea what you were referring to so I was trying to get you to quantify the phenomenon. The perceived moving of goalposts is your reading comprehension or inte...

11. President Biden thread

    macawake replied to Beerman's topic in Talk Politics

    Thanks for the links. Based on this information I think it’s difficult to estimate how common this is. Is it 1% of all the nationwide elections? More? Less? I would think, and hope, that it’s not more than a handful. I don’t think it proves that...

12. President Biden thread

    macawake replied to Beerman's topic in Talk Politics

    Is the phenomenon you just described a pattern? Something that’s happening in many instances across the country? In order for it to be used as a meaningful argument that Democrats in general don’t regard Trumpism/MAGAism as a threat, I assume you can...

13. President Biden thread

    macawake replied to Beerman's topic in Talk Politics

    Which parts of the speech has he tried to ”walk back”? Could you post a link to him doing that? Thanks,

14. President Biden thread

    macawake replied to Beerman's topic in Talk Politics

    That would appear to be the rational deduction… https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2022_0823_Fox_et_al https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot

15. President Biden thread

    macawake replied to Beerman's topic in Talk Politics

    Considering her age, I guess that it shouldn’t come as a shock. But I still think it’s a sad day. Not many people have the same job for seventy years. Not many people even work for that long. Impressive woman. She was actually the Queen when Winston ...