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Which strengthens the need for herd immunity.

Ford Pinto. Therefore all cars are bad and are a government conspiracy with Big Auto to steal your hard earned money.

How are you able to categorize a vaccine immune response as "severe", compared to any other immune response? People seem to think that vaccines are some crazy, unnatural invention. All vaccines do is present an antigen to the immune system. The exact same antigens that come from the environment. I never understood why someone thinks catching the actual measles is somehow a less "severe" immune response than one initiated by a vaccine. Which feels worse, the body's response to the flu shot, or the response to the real flu? The cytokines and prostaglandins released by the immunes system (the response) causes those negative symptoms. Measuring these would show a more severe response to the natural pathogen. The infant's immune system is bombarded by the natural environment from the first minute outside of the uterus. Every bit of food eaten, every breath that has bacteria on dust particles, anything that touches a mucous membrane...eyes, nose, mouth, lungs, is going to interact with the immune system.

I'm 41 and was so surprised when I met a girl at college who had caught polio at 2 years old (roughly 1980). The Vaccine was already available for decades but her parents had not given it to her yet. She required arm braces to walk because her legs were permanently damaged.

If you have a beard then you just have to wear a full hood. As for professionalism, I've never been asked about my beard and would find it offensive if they did.

Regarding the public at large, nurses (including males) are viewed well. I've never dated a woman who thought less of me for being a male nurse. I've never had to defend my masculinity. I've found most male nurses are straight and the homosexuals are obvious. If a woman is looking for a husband/father then a male nurse is quite appealing. In the workspace, there's obviously good potential when women outnumber men 4:1.

1st, We can make the argument that female nurses typically don't do anything special for male patients, just because female nurses are the norm. Why should it be different for male nurses? 95% of the time I make no special effort to have a witness with me. Commonly I ask for help for some procedures so it's a moot point, like having a CNA to hold labia open for a straight cath since it can be tricky with obese women. Finally, just normal communication covers most of this. It's not like I spring a surprise catheter on my patient. We do a bladder scan, it's over the limit, so I say "We need to cath you to drain your bladder, I need to grab some supplies and I'll be back in 10 minutes." If they have any objection they have plenty of time and opportunity to do so.

Which part of "touch absolutely nothing" did you not understand?

Missing teeth, well that's part of the assessment. If it doesn't matter then why would I assess it? It tells you something about the health, or past care of the individual. My previous post was in response to the person who tried to make a point about gloving for a white vs black person, which is a silly comparison. Instead, I wanted to point out reasons I might use visual information to "discriminate" in regards to my personal safety. To the OP. Of course it's ridiculous to wear gloves to conduct an interview. Just like it's ridiculous to want nurses to foam everytime in and out of a room, even if they touch absolutely nothing.

What about gloving when somebody comes in who's obese unkempt unshowered looks methed out and missing a few teeth? But not gloving for a clean cut suburban mom? Discriminatory? Yes. Good critical thinking? Yes!

I could care less if it hurts a patients feelings when I put on gloves. It's for my safety. I often glove just to take blood pressure. And what about the mouse and keyboard at the computer? Ain't no way that things getting cleaned! Patients are in the hospital dying. Lots of bugs floating around. What might they carry that hasn't been diagnosed? What may be left in the room from the previous 37 patients? Plus, many are covered in feces, incontinent, fungus growing in skin folds, egg and soup spilled down their chest. They haven't taken good care of themselves for over 20 years which is why they have a diabetic amputation and CHF in the first place. What about that deserves risking my health to not hurt their feelings? This isn't shaking hands with your coworker at the business meeting.

Those are examples of light to moderate exercise. A brisk walk is typically categorized as moderate. Those things are healthy. However, research shows that "vigorous" exercise reduces all cause mortality. Things that make you sweat or out of breath... Sports like soccer or basketball, jogging, or heavy weight lifting. Ideally, at least 2 sessions per week of vigorous exercise.

Your time spent nursing is considered "activity", not exercise. Being active is good for general health and burning of calories, but it does not offer the same health benefits of vigorous exercise. Exercise is short-term, high intensity stress that pushes the limits of your maximal strength, endurance, and heart rate. Is a 20 minute walk the same as a 20 minute run? If so, then just run 100% of the day!

What if some poor soul bought bitcoin after reading the initial post and bought for $1,700? Now they're left with a popped bubble and only $12,000. And what do you mean "no intrinsic value". A $600 billion market says that's false. I can use crypto and send someone $10,000 in an hour or less to the other side of the planet. A bank wire can take 3 days, despite what you see in the movies. Ethereum can build a secure digital voting platform. Companies and researchers can use Golem to buy access to cloud supercomputing. But you think a tulip has more value.

Got to love those "I told you so" types. Bitcoin has experience some 6 or so crashes of 40+%. Yet, do you realize Bitcoin is still up over 1000% in the last year? I can live with that kind of "pop". Even if the OP missed the recent top, those 20 coins are worth roughly $220,000. Now, who's ready for the stock market crash of 2018?

My unit gets the sickest patients in the entire state. Of course I want to work with them while on orientation. However, I question if it was appropriate to have one of the sickest patients on my 4th shift! What about starting with more stable patients to learn the basics and become familiar with equipment and procedure? Instead, I had a crashing patient while being yelled orders across the room to work equipment I didn't know how to use, then belittled for not performing well. I don't feel that's a good learning environment. I've since changed preceptors and have had some shifts with more stable patients where I can go at a slower pace that allows me to learn along the way.

So I just started at a new Lev 1 teaching hospital in the MICU. I have previous 1 year experience at a sub med/surg level. They take in new grads so they were willing to take me on and train me. I'm paired with a 20+ year veteran who has suggested several times that maybe ICU isn't for me, which is terribly discouraging. Although I've had some easy patients, on shift #4 the preceptor chose a patient with: had previously coded hemodynamically unstable, BP would crash just from being turned 3 pressors insulin drip multiple antibiotics and vitamin infusions CRRT vented Art line ABP monitoring CVP monitoring bladder pressure monitoring pt was up 10+L of fluid in the past 24 hours An alarm or something needed changed about every 10 minutes (or more) for the entire shift. Meanwhile, I'm still trying to learn simple things like assessment and charting, different supplies vs my last hospital, where things are located on the floor, the paging system. I felt it was pretty rough to say I needed more initiative, that I needed to handle a steeper learning curve to start my 2nd week on the floor. I'm expected to have 8-12 weeks orientation so why the pressure so early?

If you and your family have never had a good male nurse then the problem is clearly with you. Be assured the nurses did not enjoy you as patients either. It's time to seek care for the mental health problems you alluded to.

By "failing" do you mean getting below 80%? Just one class below 80 meant dropped from my nursing program. Deal with it or change majors.

Hmmm. I applied to nursing jobs. Went on interviews. Accepted a position. Transition completed!

I rarely work 3 shifts in a row, so the night before my next 1-2 shifts I cook enough to cover dinner for a few days. Another option, I make a fruit smoothie in the morning (strawberry, peach, some milk, add spinach if you don't mind it looking like C.diff...something like that) with my nutribullet, throw in a scoop of protein powder. Around 17-1800 I start sipping on that, maybe eat a handful of nuts. When I get home at 1930+, I just eat a few cheese and crackers to finish my "dinner". It manages my 5pm hunger, and keeping my calories in check to lose 0.5 lbs per week :)

I work on a stroke rehab floor. The days have busy spurts, generally spaced with a bit of downtime. Nights can be really chill on the floor when patients are sleeping. Typical duties: passing meds (rarely any IVs), ADLs - changing clothes and taking to bathroom, cleaning up poop (though techs handle 50+% of this stuff), and meals. That's about it. What makes it busy is we can have up to 6 patients, and each tech has 6-10 patients. Pretty common for the tech to be busy so the RN has to do their own dirty work. Patients tend to be older and/or overweight and their bodies can no longer keep up, but general acuity isn't too bad. A bit depressing though.

I interviewed with Allina over the summer after finishing my BSN, but I did not get hired. I was a bit bummed but also felt their $26/hr was low for the Twin Cities cost of living. Then I talked with the Uni hospitals there, I forget their starting pay but it was in the $30 range with better benefits (but a slow, drawn out hiring process I couldn't wait for). I'm not sure what predicament I would be in if I had to strike so quickly after being hired, with no financial reserves. Welp, I ended up in Kansas City, with even lower pay, passable benefits, and no unions. Good luck MN.

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