KathyDay

You are absolutely right...ratios are a must. And those ratios have to reflect the rising acuity of patients. Specialty training should be ongoing inside the facilities that hire nurses...along with required certifications. Nursing "training" neve...

I hadn't considered this. I did observe that a lot of programs accelerated their programs to allow students to fill the gap at hospitals at the peak of the pandemic. I wondered about the impact of this on patients and other nurses. It seemed both ...

Of course nursing has changed (scientifically and technically), and nursing education must change as well. The supervised hands on approach is the best way to build confidence to safely care for patients. Specialty training should start during "tra...

Like you, I graduated from high school in 1967, but I went immediately into nursing school or "training" in a Catholic nursing school. I was a naive dumb kid, but I snapped to under the tutelage of catholic nuns and instructors. It was a strict and ...

My caption "Hey, that's not the moon you promised me"

As an "older" RN who has lived through many decades of mandates in my career, I have no sympathy for this nurse. How can I? I have seen healthcare from both sides of the bed rails at this point... I lost my father to Hospital Acquired MRSA. A bre...

I’ve never seen anything like it. As a 72-year old woman and an RN for over 50 years, our current nursing climate has shocked and stunned me. I have lost faith in too many regular every day human beings. My strengths as a nurse and just as a woman...

I have only read page one of the comments on this post. You all are scaring the crap out of me. Are these conspiracy theorists and believers actually licensed and called professionals and taking care of us!? I am retired and will need care at some...

WHAT? Then, how do you explain that over 957% of all hospitalized COVID patients in Maine are the unvaccinated. Vaccinated people do have breakthrough cases, but generally those cases do not land them in the hospital and/or they don't kill them...

I am incredibly proud of my Maine's Governor Janet Mills and her CDC director for mandating COVID vaccines for all healthcare workers here in Maine. This avoids a piecemeal approach of individual hospitals or healthcare clinics and facilities having...

Just yesterday, Governor Janet MIlls announced that COVID vaccinations will be mandated for all healthcare workers in the State of Maine. This step will help my state to avoid a piecemeal approach to vaccinations for HC workers. We have 2 current ou...

It is hard to decipher sarcasm in an online post. Maybe it is best to say what you mean, and mean what you say. I think that most of us are exhausted by this pandemic and we don't really find anything funny about it at all. We are disappointed and...

That is true, but the employer has a right to mandate vaccines, and in turn patients (in a hospital or other facility) won't have to ask questions about the staff's vaccination status. It will be a forgone conversation.

Yes, I know that and I got that it was tongue in cheek. I just wanted to bring that comment home, for how it is from the patient and family perspective.

There is certainly nothing amusing about patients wanting to know that their caregivers are doing all they can to reduce their chances of infections. Take it from an old retired nurse whose father died of hospital acquired MRSA pneumonia....and NONE...

At Maine Medical Center, there is a COVID outbreak among nurses in the ER....9 of them are infected. There are more on different floors and areas of the hospital The Maine CDC is doing an outbreak investigation. I have been told (no article yet to ...

AND, do not ever, ever let the conflict interfere with giving top notched, safe patient care. Your patients are your priority. During my working years, I put up with some pretty nasty, foul mouthed back stabbers, but my patients never suffered beca...

"Prior to the Covid vaccine everyone is screaming "Don't trust Big Pharma". After the vaccine, everyone is "Trust Big Pharma, they wouldn't jeopardize people's health for profits". As a patient safety activist and advocate, I have had no...

All of this will be moot once the mandates come. Nobody will have to ask anyone about their special ideas/opinions and when it comes to vaccination status. It will be a comfort to know we are all safer when healthcare workers are mandated to be vacc...

"A nursing home here had a symptomatic unvaccinated employee and tested all their residents and found several cases of covid and had to go on lockdown. None of the residents were symptomatic and all were vaccinated." The fact is that unvaccinated ...

Meanwhile here in Maine, this my small hometown community hospital is the first in the State to mandate the vaccine. https://www.pressherald.com/2021/07/29/millinocket-hospital-is-first-in-maine-to-require-covid-vaccines-for-employees/?fbclid=IwAR1...

23 minutes ago "Oh well, they are free to go to another hospital for care." This is a cavalier attitude toward patients, who by the way are your bread and butter. This attitude may change quickly with mandates, and it's a safe bet ...

I speculate that first private businesses will mandate vaccines. Many LTCs and hospitals are private businesses. The mandates will be piecemeal...and probably not very organized, but eventually, one way or the other...most folks will be vaccinated....

Yes, tone does matter. Nobody has the right to harass any coworker about vaccinations. I truly believe there will be mandates, there already are in many places. When that happens, it will give the compliance policing to managers and health offices...