Did you know that #COVID19 has a sound? Listen to this ICU nurse describe it.

[demmiblue]

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[PoliticAverse]

1. Hearing that for hours on end must take its toll. n/t

[Alice Kramden]

2. So awful

I would go nuts hearing that every minute of my working day

[localroger]

8. Those alarms are designed to be annoying

...so that they will be quickly attended. The Covid situation is an edge case the alarm designers did not anticipate, and they make things worse instead of better.

[Old Okie]

12. Alarms

As someone who spent months in a hospital (pre-covid), I can tell you the alarms are almost constant and it is hard to get them responded to, especially on the night shift. I don't know why nurses work 12 hour shifts but they are always tired and overworked and sometimes cranky as a result.

[kcr]

26. My experience as well

I was in the ICU for non-covid reasons, and when you're in the ICU you're hooked up to all kinds of stuff that generate those alarms, and if you shift in bed even a little that sets at least one off. It's often some time before anyone comes in to check you. Plus you can hear all the other alarms in the other rooms. It's non-stop because they can't react quickly to every alarm. I think their brain unconsciously learns to tune out the alarms that don't indicate something immediately life-threatening. Otherwise, they'd go crazy. It was bad enough for the short time I was in there.

[mucifer]

3. Despite all of this, so many nurses refuse the vaccine and believe the lies

[mopinko]

4. mr darwin just has to be on this.

i know the math, but it just cant be that this level of death and disability dont have an impact on human behavior and evolution.

let's a light a candle that the next generation learns the right lessons from this era.

[IronLionZion]

7. There are dumb health care workers out there

the numbers reported are for all types of hospital workers, not just nurses. They like their Fox News and conservative nonsense media. They don't trust the vaccine because they don't know what's in it. But they take all kinds of meds without knowing what's in it.

Magnets apparently and 5G tracking chips.

[HUAJIAO]

11. And they eat McDonalds hamburgers thinking it is actually meat !

[Rebl2]

9. Or have

a death wish

[Elessar Zappa]

17. Over 90% of nurses are vaccinated.

It’s still not enough but the vast majority of nurses aren’t idiots.

[Maru Kitteh]

28. Thank you. nt

[KentuckyWoman]

18. "Many"

I guess some places are different than others but here in a red area of Ohio the hospitals are reporting 99.5% of direct care staff are vaccinated. When I see articles from other places touting "dozens" or "100's" fired for non compliance, those numbers tend to include staff not in direct care and is also a small % of the total in the health system.

A niece is an ER nurse in Austin TX, she said even in Texas the stats are generally running 99% plus for nurses, doctors and other more educated workers. Even with other staff, it is above 85% for the entire health system. She said remember, this includes everyone not medical care related.

All of this is anecdotal but it looks to me like the mandates are working pretty good.

[mucifer]

24. I work with 4 other nurses. One is an APN the rest of us are RNs. The APN and I were the

only ones who got vaxxed as soon as we could. One RN got vaxxed soon after the mandate was announced and wasn't too upset about it. The other two freaked out. One of the two got a medical exemption. She is being tested every week. I do know she has a chronic illness. The 4th is still working with us. I don't know if she was vaccinated or if she got some exemption. She is a proud trumpy type.

Feel free to believe me or not.

In my world it's stressful that nurses I work with got brainwashed.

[KentuckyWoman]

25. I can only imagine how stressful to work in healthcare with a proud Trumper.

The job is hard enough without have to put up with that silliness.

I have a family member who is having considerable health issues that they've been trying to pin down for nearly 3 years. They think it is immune system related but can't seem to get a diagnosis. Her doc said it's better to not vax in the middle of this, but Covid is worse. Vax is a better option. She's making the sacrifice to perpetually quarantine, double mask up when she goes out etc instead of Vax. She doesn't want to do anything to her immune system until they figure it out. She is not anti-vax. The longer this goes on, the more vax looks appetizing, even if it hinders a diagnosis. So I get it, there are just some who have legitimate health concerns. To be a nurse and make that decision could not be easy.

50% in your little group is not good. I wonder if that extrapolates to the entire system you work in?

[mucifer]

27. I am not sure about the whole system. I know the doctors have been trying really hard to educate

all the staff and encourage everyone to vaccinate for a long time.

[lark]

5. OMG, this is just heartbreaking, how do these nurses do it?

I guess they just have better compassion genes than I do because I couldn't take the noise and the sadness & frustration & grief & anger I'd feel at these assholes causing themselves to die out of total right wing idiocy!

[SharonClark]

6. Wrong audience. Show it to the health care workers who won't get vaccinated.

[healthnut7]

10. The media should be airing this everywhere! So dam sad!!

[Hortensis]

13. How horrible, and dreadful for these nurses immersed in tragedy.

I think too often of the horror these patients find themselves trapped in, those last moments before sedation turns off the light.

[KG]

14. mighty noisy for a democratic hoax

[Sunsky]

16. This is triggering for me

This is what the ICU sounds like. As a former ICU nurse, I remember hearing those sounds when I'm home, when I'm driving, out shopping, and in my sleep. When alarm fatigue kicks in some nurses do the unthinkable and turn off or turn down the alarms with the hope of providing more frequent checks (this is dangerous).
I find it hard to believe that anyone who has ICU experience would not do everything in their power to avoid being ventilated. My colleagues who are opposed to being vaccinated are those who have never worked in critical care.

[Bucky]

19. damn

[dalton99a]

20. Kick

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. If you're wondering what W-EMCO is, I looked it up.

It's like kidney dialysis, except it's for removing CO2 from the blood. It's weird to think that I was on it during surgery.

[BeckyDem]

22. Thank you for posting. The scope of the reasons for their burn out

includes this horror. No vaccine, more horror.

[Lucinda]

23. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️