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  1. Denmark becomes first EU country to lift all Covid-19 restrictions

    macawake replied to chare's topic in Disaster Preparation

    None of us know each other in real life and it’s impossible to know everything about each other, but it is possible to draw at least some conclusions from what posters choose to write and in this...

  2. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

    macawake replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    That’s horrible. As a nurse I have a legal obligation to notify my employer if I witness something that poses a serious threat to patients; illness, injury or death. My employer then has a legal...

  3. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

    macawake replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Lots of things really, big and small. We write reports on many different areas. Patient safety, staff working conditions and even environmental issues. I wrote one that made the department switch to a...

  4. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

    macawake replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    I can completely understand why you wouldn’t write things up if nothing ever comes of it. It sounds as if your organization might be more hierarchical than mine. Mine is rather flat. What first...

  5. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

    macawake replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Hear, hear! I can’t imagine working in an environment where I couldn’t speak freely and voice any concerns I might have regarding the quality of care that we deliver and patient...

  6. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

    macawake replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Hearing those nurses tell their stories was both sad and painful. But it’s a story that needs to be told. And heard. Thank you for posting the clip

  7. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

    macawake replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Have you noticed that a large number of countries that have universal healthcare have higher life expectancy, lower maternal, infant and under five mortality than the US? Why do you think that...

  8. Should hospitals inform patients and family that COVID positives nurses and staff may be working on a unit?

    macawake replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m not familiar with all the details surrounding the actions the New York Governor took, but it doesn’t sound credible that the decisions made were motivated by a desire to ”clean out”...

  9. Should hospitals inform patients and family that COVID positives nurses and staff may be working on a unit?

    macawake replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It’s a mixed bag really.. some countries around the world with single-payer and/or universal healthcare have had significantly lower number of cases and lower per capita Covid mortality than the...

  10. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    macawake replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    So out of 122 patients hospitalized for Covid, only five have received their vaccine booster dose. And none of the five require ICU care. That sounds about right. The numbers are very similar in my...

  11. Should hospitals inform patients and family that COVID positives nurses and staff may be working on a unit?

    macawake replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don’t think that corporate profits is what’s primarily behind the new recommendations. Changes in recommendations similar to the CDC’s regarding isolation or quarantine for healthcare workers...

  12. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    macawake replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No, the point isn’t to scare people into getting the vaccine. The point is to inform, explain and educate the general public so that they understand that getting vaccinated is the intelligent and...

  13. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    macawake replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sure, I can stop. But I’m wondering what part of my post you didn’t agree with? If you’d genuinely thought that subee was implying that they believe that 100% of all unvaccinated individuals...

  14. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    macawake replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don’t know why on earth DesiDani made that post. It just seemed pointless to me. Generally speaking, I think the approach of intimating that someone has made a claim that they haven’t...

  15. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    macawake replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It is the former. DesiDani is misrepresenting what subee said by only quoting a part of subee’s post and then being cute about it. This is what subee wrote: This is the part of...

  16. PSA

    macawake replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in General Nursing

    Some people are just like that. Instead of just speaking their minds, they engage in passive-aggressive nonsense. It happened to me once when I was a new nurse. I mean a really new nurse, about a...

  17. RN Claims to Be An LPN To Avoid Certain Tasks

    macawake replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    No SilverBells, I’ve never seen that happen. I don’t think you’ll find many posters who have. You seem to encounter a lot of ”unique” situations. A lot. Wuzzie’s suggestion...

  18. Healthcare Costs and Unvaccinated Patients

    macawake replied to guest1168940's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You’d be making the correct ♦️♣️♥️♠️ choice ? The 2:1 risk for an unvaccinated person of ending up hospitalized with a Covid infection is in reality even worse than those odds....

  19. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    macawake replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What do you mean when you say ”oh the future dilemmas now”? Tone can be quite hard to decipher over the internet but it almost sounds as if you are either questioning the legitimacy of wanting a...

  20. Abuse Accusations

    macawake replied to Jess0418's topic in General Nursing

    OP, I can’t advice you one way or the other. I don’t work nor do I live in the U.S. But I noticed that you are receiving conflicting suggestions regarding the situation you’ve found yourself in....

  21. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    macawake replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The number of hospitalized patients who are Covid positive is increasing rapidly in the U.S. now just as it is in many European countries. Even though there are early signs that Omicron in many cases...

  22. Paedatric Pfizer and Adolescent/Adult Pfizer

    macawake replied to aliwonga88's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Hmmm, I have a feeling that I should just have ignored this post since it is about the latest piece of vaccine disinformation making the rounds on the internet. And OP, while this might not be...

  23. Healthcare Costs and Unvaccinated Patients

    macawake replied to guest1168940's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What’s the purpose of your n=2 anecdote? Because it sounds like to me that you are attempting to downplay the importance of getting vaccinated. Whatever happened to you and your husband is extremely...

  24. The next round of hospital acquired infections is here...

    macawake replied to JBMmom's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We are seeing more and more research that the vaccines do offer some protection against transmission and susceptibility to infection, even with the Omicron variant, but that the level of protection...

  25. Writing “poop” is unprofessional?

    macawake replied to guest1143647's topic in General Nursing

    Well, did you at least chart large, hard ”poop”? The DON actually printed your note so they could show it to you instead of simply reminding you to use standardized medical/nursing...