Topics About 'Covid'.

The Guardian Newspaper and Kaiser Health News have reported that thousands of US healthcare workers have died fighting Covid-19. Their investigations have revealed the disproportionate burden on healthcare workers of color and government undercounts...

Covid did a number to nursing staff shortage like we never seen. Nurses call off all the time, some are leaving. The remaining staff is burned out from doing doubles and then some. Vacations declined and people arrive at their breaking point. This is...

Hello Fellow Nurses, Which Covid vaccine supply is better to you Moderna, Pfizer, or Johnson& Johnson? Does anyone know where to review research? I have elderly parents and elderly in laws. I have read about side effects and anaphylaxis...

allnurses is participating in the virtual AACN -NTI conference this week. We have enjoyed meeting some of our members in person as we attended the conference every year for more than a decade. But COVID got in the way. Last year the conference was ...

Sometimes I feel like we are living in another world lately. I often wonder, are we still here eighteen months later? It seems surreal. I am 53 years old and have been in nursing since 1995. One of the most difficult and scary times I remember in...

We just finished a nurse group Zoom Mtg. We were asked how we felt about taking the covid vaccine per the school Supt. Wow, didn't expect that on a Monday. The school nurse? Wow, it's like your life flashes before your eyes for the present and for th...

“Every member of the colony has a job to do and their altruism is what makes them so successful.” - by Robin QueenDuty CallsIn the wee hours of a pitch-black Pacific northwest morning, I’m jolted out of a dream by the grating sound of my alarm. The ...

The whirlwind that COVID-19 threw students, educators and caregivers into in early 2020 was just the beginning of a flow of new but related storms each taking a different twist. Few would have thought that resuming schools after more than a year and ...

As luck, fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it, would have it I am back at the bedside as an ICU nurse in the middle of a Pandemic. I have been away from the bedside in various roles for the last 5 years, and now I am back. I live in the Dall...

In my area it seems that the worst of the COVID pandemic has passed, we are now seeing maybe 1-2 COVID patients at a time in the unit, and we've even had a couple stretches of a few days with no COVID positive patients. That's been a nice change from...

I am not fired yet, but I feel unsafe at my work place. I work on med-surg. We have 6 patients per nurse and charge has 6 patients, too. 1 CNA for entire unit (36 patients) Half of our nurses are LVNs. This staffing ratio was not ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially classified Omicron (SARS-CoV-2) as a Variant of Concern (VOC). As of this writing, there have been no cases of the new variant identified in the U.S., but experts warn it's only a matter of time. Th...

During this Pandemic time, we have seen an increase of COVID Mis/Dis-Information. Much has been posted and discussed on allnurses, some of which has been very divisive. This announcement is to inform the membership of how we plan to address this in...

The Early Days I have to preface anything about my experience during the pandemic by saying that I was lucky. I live in the northeast and we didn't suffer nearly the overwhelming patient load and deaths that so many dealt with elsewhere in the Un...

Okay, so this has the potential to sound very strange. I have noticed that at work the past couple months when a co-worker slips their mask down for a moment to take a drink, eat, readjust the mask, etc. That from the nose they just look strange almo...

A few months into the pandemic, we had a patient admitted directly to the ICU from the ED. She was in her late 80s, and her story quickly went through the unit because we were honestly at a loss for how this could have happened. For many of us i...

Nurses have a larger portion of burnout than other professions which can lead to patient care issues. Some of the prominent contributing factors for nurse burnout are: lack of supplies necessary to do their job, psychological effects of taking care o...

Mitigating the Infodemic It would seem like COVID 19 is unrelenting in throwing new curve balls on every turn: new variants, vaccine side effects, divisive politics, mistrust of the health care systems and other issues have all led to a prolonged...

Overwhelmed hospitals in California are rapidly inching towards the abyss of rationing care. On Jan. 4, 2021, an LA Times headline read “Ambulance crews told not to transport patients who have little chance of survival”. The same arti...

We have all dealt with chronic care patients who keep coming back to the hospital because they have COPD and refuse to stop smoking, have CHF but can't be bothered to be compliant with their medications, or they are ESRD but they won't change their l...

We have recently been fully immersed in the next wave in my ICU. Since August we've been hovering at 25-50% COVID patients in our small unit. When I left yesterday morning we had 10/12 beds with intubated COVID patients. Two coded and died yesterday ...

Good morning- Now that several of us have gotten our COVID Vaccine- I'm just curious how you got along? Side Effect? What were they? Happy Thursday Friends- Cattz

We posted this on one of our facebook pages and got more than 55,000 comments in less than a week. WOW!! We would love to hear from you, too. We know you all have gone through so much...more than anyone can even imagine unless you are there....

I'm in NY. Wonder how other NURSES are feeling about mandatory COVID vaccination?

(So glad I stumbled across this website again after almost 6 years! I need to change my username because I am not an aspiring nurse anymore, I have been a nurse for almost 3 years! ?) Anyway, I really do not want to take this new covid vaccine. ...