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  1. RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Frontliner, 11 year veteran RN, in the Emergency Department. For the last year and a half, I have been exposed to so much Covid I feel I'm so blessed. I have had it splash in my face, eyes and mouth. I have taken antibody test and just can't seem to ...
  2. NurseWriter_AJP

    Telehealth is Here to Stay

    Telehealth and Nursing Care Before the COVID-19 pandemic, discussions about telehealth, the use and management of health care in whereby individuals manage aspects of their care with remote support from healthcare professionals, were minute. Whil...
  3. Canada's Healthcare System Crumbling It's no surprise that the pandemic caused huge burnout and stress to nurses worldwide. However, nurses were burned out before this. Specifically in Canada, it was estimated in 2018 that by 2030, there would be...
  4. COVID-19 was an unprecedented time in everyone's life. More than three years after the first reported COVID-19 case, the world is still battling the infection. Although we are nowhere near where we were at the start of the pandemic, thanks to th...
  5. Nurses Did Not Sign Up for This

    Nurses did not “sign up for this.” Yet, here we are. And so, the current challenge to tackle is: how does the field of nursing survive a pandemic? And how does healthcare keep its nurses in the careers they dreamed of, long before March 2020 ha...
  6. Brooke Schmidt

    I Did Not Feel Like A Hero

    I remember the early days of the pandemic- signing up for my free crocs and free slippers, showing my badge at the chick-fil-a drive-thru for free lunch. My neighbors rang bells and cheered at night. For a few short minutes, I thought I felt like a h...
  7. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2019) and the World Health Organization (WHO, n.d.) declare the imperative need to vaccinate all people to improve public health. Traditional wisdom taught to healthcare professionals backs up thi...
  8. allnurses

    We Did Not Sign Up For This

    This article was written by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Due to the topic and emotionally charged nature of the article, the member wanted the topic out in the open so nurses could discuss it. Because she is afraid of retribution if any of...
  9. COVID-19 was an unprecedented time in everyone's life. More than three years after the first reported COVID-19 case, the world is still battling the infection. Although we are nowhere near where we were at the start of the pandemic, thanks to th...
  10. After two and a half years of dealing with the enormous physical and emotional weight of covid, a light is beginning to show. We have lost many of our experienced nurses throughout the covid pandemic. This created a huge gap in the experience level o...
  11. What is Long COVID? Long COVID, also referred to as a post-COVID condition, refers to a phenomenon where individuals continue to experience symptoms after recovering from the acute phase of COVID-19, sometimes even months later. These symptoms ca...
  12. I am a pediatric pulmonary nurse coordinator and remain per diem as a bedside NICU nurse. I made the decision to get vaccinated a couple of months after it became available at my hospital. As the vaccine was brand new, I put a lot of thought and rese...
  13. On July 6, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that state-licensed pharmacists are authorized to prescribe the Covid-19 anti-viral medication, Paxlovid, in limited circumstances. Manufactured by Pfizer, Paxlovid decreases the seve...
  14. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic dramatically altered daily life for many Americans and showed an alarming rise in eating disorders. The National Eating Disorder Associations Helpline reported a 70-80% increase in calls during the pandemic. In add...
  15. Let me ask this question one more time like I did before. I started a thread a long time ago saying I did not like shaking hands and I only do this to keep from being arrogant and rude . I said one reason I liked working in healthcare because no o...
  16. Sarina Day

    Nightingale Nursing ... On its Deathbed

    Nursing practice has turned into a checklist of menial tasks. Is the model of compassion and empathy dying? Compassion. Human touch. Healing. Genuine rapport. These were the principles that I wore on my sleeve just a few years ago before the COV...
  17. What can we do to help?

    Hello everyone, I'm wondering if anyone not working in specialty areas seeing COVID19 has any ideas on how we can be helping out our nurses who are seeing these patients? I'm a psychiatric nurse and right now my population is staying out of the hospi...
  18. The hospital in my town has given nursing students the opportunity to assist with COVID-19 screening and other duties. I am interested in helping out and gaining experience during this time, but have my reservations because I don't want to chance it ...
  19. Heather Marie

    COVID-19 Remote Nursing Classes

    Hi everyone, I’m a nursing student in my first year, 2nd semester of a 2-year program. Like many, we Had our last class on March 12th and went on Spring Break until now. This week, our faculty will discuss how to move the courses to remote learning. ...
  20. Dear Fellow Nurses, I must warn you the letter you are about to read is very sobering and touching that I almost cried reading it for the first time. My friend who is also a nurse shared this to me. I felt very sad and empathize with the nurse who wr...
  21. Called to Duty

    I will be an ambulatory nurse being redeployed to inpatient care due to shortages. As nervous as I am of what is to come, I can say I am proud to nurse and to work with such great nurses. We all need to get together as ONE and we will win the fight....
  22. Covid-19: New York starting to feel it

    New York City hospitals are already straining under the onslaught of novel coronavirus cases, even as state officials say the real peak of the outbreak is nearly a month and a half away. https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-cases-strain-new-yor...
  23. Governor Cuomo., put in your order! Karen Found at CNN Business James Dyson designed a new ventilator in 10 days. He's making 15,000 for the pandemic fightBy Nada Bashir, CNN Business Thu March 26, 2020
  24. CHLA not letting nurses wear masks

    Children’s Hospital Los Angeles l is not letting nurses wear masks at all time. Only if the patient is covid-19 positive or on isolation for another reason. Staff were positive for covid-19 and worked. Other nurses on our floor now have symptoms! Thi...
  25. Psychiatric Inpatient Preparedness

    As an Inpatient Psych RN, I need to hear back from others about what your protocols are currently in terms of COVID-19 and if you have access to PPE at this time, etc... Any information would be helpful. TY!