Amanda, I love your writing but this piece is extra special. My first job as an RN in 2011 was on a cardiac telemetry unit. This brought it all back! I’m no longer working in nursing and the COVID fiasco was devastating to me. I hope someday to go back to nursing, but only IF some decency and humaneness has returned to how hospitals are run.
FYI and unrelated: I am "following" your substack, but I do not subscribe as a general rule because I cannot stand the email advisories and I am too poor to make an actual paid subscription. I have found your writings via your submission to Rob Henderson and, unlike most of the other submissions Rob puts up, I find your tenor and voice to be very appealing after having dived into your archive.
As a fellow Substacker, I just wanted you to know you have a new follower, even if the Substack engine won't advise you of it.
This is interesting to read in that I believe it was written pre-covid? There is a lightness to it - finding rays of humor as a means of coping with desperately sad and grim human conditions - that I would guess has changed since 2020. I now know many more nurses than ever before. Those I've come to know as part of the medical freedom movement are grappling with questions well beyond the challenges of patient care. For those who may be interested I recommend the podcast "Nurses Out Loud" with nurses Kimberly Overton and Jody O'Malley.
You are correct. I wrote this is in 2012 or 13. My brother, whose stories I retold in this piece, is no longer an active floor nurse and is trying to get out of medicine altogether. This is sad, because he’s a really good nurse. You might say that the response to the virus that cannot be named, demoralized and radicalized him. The future of excellent patient care was put in jeopardy by the experts in 2020. They lied, they put good nurses and doctors through the proverbial meat grinder and then threatened to fire them if they wouldn’t get the jab. They sewed to the wind and are reaping the whirlwind.
There is hope and a future for nurses who chose not to get jabbed. This organization is a great place for displaced nurses who may be looking for opportunities.
Amanda, I love your writing but this piece is extra special. My first job as an RN in 2011 was on a cardiac telemetry unit. This brought it all back! I’m no longer working in nursing and the COVID fiasco was devastating to me. I hope someday to go back to nursing, but only IF some decency and humaneness has returned to how hospitals are run.
Thank you, so much. We have to keep hoping and praying that saner times will come back soon.
FYI and unrelated: I am "following" your substack, but I do not subscribe as a general rule because I cannot stand the email advisories and I am too poor to make an actual paid subscription. I have found your writings via your submission to Rob Henderson and, unlike most of the other submissions Rob puts up, I find your tenor and voice to be very appealing after having dived into your archive.
As a fellow Substacker, I just wanted you to know you have a new follower, even if the Substack engine won't advise you of it.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your support. 😊
This is interesting to read in that I believe it was written pre-covid? There is a lightness to it - finding rays of humor as a means of coping with desperately sad and grim human conditions - that I would guess has changed since 2020. I now know many more nurses than ever before. Those I've come to know as part of the medical freedom movement are grappling with questions well beyond the challenges of patient care. For those who may be interested I recommend the podcast "Nurses Out Loud" with nurses Kimberly Overton and Jody O'Malley.
You are correct. I wrote this is in 2012 or 13. My brother, whose stories I retold in this piece, is no longer an active floor nurse and is trying to get out of medicine altogether. This is sad, because he’s a really good nurse. You might say that the response to the virus that cannot be named, demoralized and radicalized him. The future of excellent patient care was put in jeopardy by the experts in 2020. They lied, they put good nurses and doctors through the proverbial meat grinder and then threatened to fire them if they wouldn’t get the jab. They sewed to the wind and are reaping the whirlwind.
There is hope and a future for nurses who chose not to get jabbed. This organization is a great place for displaced nurses who may be looking for opportunities.
https://www.remnanthealthcare.org/
Love this! I’m so glad for every ray of hope for us nurses who chose not to go along with the insanity.
💯 agree. As a nurse who was not even working in the hospitals, it was devastating for me on so many levels to watch the destruction done.