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  1. How to Answer a Patient Who Asks: "Does God Exist?"

    macawake replied to S.I.C.'s topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Of course I assess the reason the question was asked. Considering what my work is the only time a patient tends to ask me this, is in a life-threatening and often time-sensitive situation. I handle...

  2. How to Answer a Patient Who Asks: "Does God Exist?"

    macawake replied to S.I.C.'s topic in Spirituality, Religion

    If the patient’s question is ”does God exist”, that is not a question I can answer. I could offer my opinion, but how would my opinion help my hypothetical patient? My way of showing them...

  3. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I kind of figured that was the case ? It’s the same as in my country and I reckon in most democracies where freedom of speech is protected by law. It’s protection against the government, but...

  4. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m not American so I don’t have in depth knowledge about your Constitution. But I assume that the First Amendment doesn’t grant licensed healthcare professionals the freedom to advice their...

  5. How to Answer a Patient Who Asks: "Does God Exist?"

    macawake replied to S.I.C.'s topic in Spirituality, Religion

    How could anyone prove that God exists? I’ve been a nurse for over a decade and not once has a patient asked me if God exists. I’ve had two or three ask me if I believe in God and when that’s...

  6. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Who exactly are the oligarchs and how do you gain total control over a person just because they’ve taken a vaccine? Assuming someone could actually take control over you with a vaccine, which they...

  7. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Do you have a reasonable expectation that they would be more common or more severe in nature than the morbidity, sequelae and mortality we’ve already seen from Covid-19? If you do, based on what?...

  8. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m assuming that it is the Pfizer vaccine you’re talking about? What are the significant side effects you’re talking about? I’ve read the data released and I didn’t find anything that...

  9. Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As other posters have already said, we don’t have a cure for most viral diseases and I don’t anticipate that we’ll see one for Covid-19 any time soon. There’s a reason why we depend...

  10. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What’s happened here? Why are we talking about assault rifles in a thread about a Covid vaccine? But since we’re now discussing everything and anything, I find it hard to see the logic of...

  11. Covid Vaccine

    macawake replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Wouldn’t it be less reassuring if you weren’t being monitored? As an ICU nurse I’m sure that you’ve administered medications that patients sometimes have a reaction to? This is...

  12. Will you take the Pfizer Covid Vaccine?

    macawake replied to guest83140's topic in School

    https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download Page 41. Four of the deaths were in the placebo arm and two in the vaccine arm. There were 43,448 enrolled participants in the study and six...

  13. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Personally I don’t think that a Covid vaccine will be mandated in many, if any, democratic countries. I can of course not be certain of that, but that is my guess. If it happens, I suspect it is...

  14. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Your link explains why the efficacy rate is comparably low for flu vaccines. Despite that, they still prevent a significant amount of morbidity and mortality. Both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s Covid...

  15. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I know what they say about opinions. But not all opinions are created equal. Some are based on an accurate, dispassionate understanding of reality, while others can be based on believing false...

  16. Your Experience in Caring for People Diagnosed With COVID

    macawake replied to Newgurl17's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This just makes me feel really good about my decision to never open a facebook account. I swear I sometimes feel like social media has lowered our collective average IQ by 50 points or so and that...

  17. I Really Do Not Want the COVID Vaccine ?

    macawake replied to AspiringNurse94's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don’t understand. What is the ”something” about this illness that makes you think otherwise and turns you into an anti-vaxxer? Patients absolutely can refuse medications,...

  18. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Okay. Would you be more inclined to take a viral vector vaccine like for example AstraZeneca’s if it becomes approved? Do you poo-poo all vaccines or are you simply worried about mRNA vaccines?...

  19. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As lifelearningrn has already posted, mRNA vaccines does not invade your or anyone else’s DNA. I don’t know if you are intentionally scaremongering or if you have a knowledge deficit regarding the...

  20. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you hppy for your kind words. They are appreciated

  21. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I said what now? ? I don’t know if this is me and my English-not-as-a-first-language issues, but that is not what I was trying to say. I was in a non-in depth way trying to illustrate the subject of...

  22. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Unknown of course at this time, but I’m quite pragmatic in my decision-making process ? 1) Long term effects for vaccines that only show up several years after administration are as far as I...

  23. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Have posters said all those things in this thread? I know I haven’t. Those aren’t things I would say (or think). My primary concern and frustration is the knee-jerk reflex I think I see in some...

  24. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No need to apologize or feel sorry. You can question my opinions and sources all day long ?? I do not mind. I only mind posters who attack the person instead of the opinion, and fail to provide a...

  25. Now that the Covid 19 vaccine is just around the corner... Will it be mandatory?

    macawake replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Hi there ? You’re not the first poster who has mentioned sample size as a reason for wanting more data (more time and more ”test subjects”) before you trust the result or consider anything...