macawake

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  1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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?

    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. 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?

    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?

    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?

    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?

    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

    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

    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

    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?

    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

    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?

    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

    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

    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. 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?

    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...