KathyDay

KathyDay

Patient Safety Advocate; HAI Prevention

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  1. Is someone justified in harassing someone to tell them if they got vaccinated or not?

    KathyDay replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  2. Co-Worker Conflict? 8 Tips for Having Difficult Conversations

    KathyDay replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  3. Is someone justified in harassing someone to tell them if they got vaccinated or not?

    KathyDay replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "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...

  4. Is someone justified in harassing someone to tell them if they got vaccinated or not?

    KathyDay replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  5. Patient Refusing Unvaccinated RN

    KathyDay replied to Delia37's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "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...

  6. Patient Refusing Unvaccinated RN

    KathyDay replied to Delia37's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Meanwhile here in Maine, this my small hometown community hospital is the first in the State to mandate the vaccine....

  7. Patient Refusing Unvaccinated RN

    KathyDay replied to Delia37's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  8. Is someone justified in harassing someone to tell them if they got vaccinated or not?

    KathyDay replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  9. Is someone justified in harassing someone to tell them if they got vaccinated or not?

    KathyDay replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  10. Is someone justified in harassing someone to tell them if they got vaccinated or not?

    KathyDay replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    These discussions astound me honestly. I couldn't wait to put a picture of myself (not in vanity, but in pride!) on FB getting my vaccination. I wanted to encourage others who may be hesitant to get...

  11. Patient Refusing Unvaccinated RN

    KathyDay replied to Delia37's topic in Disaster Preparation

    During an active pandemic, any patient or family member should have the information they need to keep their loved one or themselves safe. I would absolutely ask my nurse if she is vaccinated, and ask...

  12. Patient Refusing Unvaccinated RN

    KathyDay replied to Delia37's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am a retired RN and a volunteer Patient Safety Advocate. As nurses it is our/your responsibility to do whatever is necessary to keep your patients safe, and ourselves at the same time. If a...

  13. Am I Crazy To Consider Going Back To Work?

    KathyDay replied to Omibashu's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have been retired for 20 years (retired from clinical nursing at 50yoa) and I am 70 years old. I called my local medical center and asked if they had remote work for retired nurses. They loved the...

  14. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    KathyDay replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I am a retired RN, who graduated nursing school in 1970. Most working nurses now would consider me a dinosaur, and in most cases they would be absolutely correct. But, some things have not changed....

  15. Forcibly removing piercings in psych patients

    KathyDay posted a topic in Emergency

    I have a very sensitive question. I have recently learned of a patient, who is bipolar and who was having a crisis, went to the ER. There, every patient has to go through a metal detector, and...

  16. Strip searching and removing jewelry

    KathyDay posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I am looking for information on the rights of psych patients in the ER. Are psych patients routinely strip searched and all jewelry removed on admission to the ER? If so, why, particularly if there...

  17. Forcibly removing piercings in psych patients

    KathyDay replied to KathyDay's topic in Emergency

    What does this question mean, or

  18. Forcibly removing piercings in psych patients

    KathyDay replied to KathyDay's topic in Emergency

    I agree. When I spoke to the man who is engaged to this woman, he felt the same way, but she was so traumatized by the assault that she was afraid. She refused to make a formal complaint to the...

  19. Forcibly removing piercings in psych patients

    KathyDay replied to KathyDay's topic in Emergency

    That was my sense of things too. The person who shared this story with me was extremely angry about what happened to his fiance, but he showed me the photos of the lacerations that were caused. This...

  20. Navy Corpsmen Caught

    KathyDay replied to guest52816's topic in Nursing News

    License or not, these young women are not NURSES. The trust that is given to us as professionals is hard earned and largely well deserved. It is disgusting that these two unprofessional disgusting...

  21. I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

    KathyDay replied to rnfrombama's topic in General Nursing

    I wrote this last fall. Here is my blog about a Healthcare Calling and Subsequent Beatings. McCleary MRSA Prevention >> Health Care calling and the subsequent

  22. Strip searching and removing jewelry

    KathyDay replied to KathyDay's topic in Psychiatric

    If a patient refuses to remove jewelry, what is the next step. Is it OK for male security to brutally remove it? Or does a professional nurse come and explain the reason and help to remove it...

  23. Strip searching and removing jewelry

    KathyDay replied to KathyDay's topic in Psychiatric

    I guess a futher question would be, why would male security guards only remove nipple and belly button piercings from a woman and not other piercings. This seems like sexual assault to

  24. When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    KathyDay replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Symbol of subservience to doctors?? Really? Where the heck did that come from? I went to nursing school...yes, a 3 year TRAINING program, that put out some of the best prepared and ready to perform...

  25. Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    KathyDay replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    I was always overweight or FAT, whatever anyone chooses to call it. But, I worked my fat ass off every shift, I never sat around and let others do my work for me, I kept up on latest nursing...