My experience is same as road to nowhere. I attended college with one and she was part of the same cohort. I noticed she changed her sitting arrangement and association with the ones of us that were more vocal in profanity or sexual discussions. The nice thing was she wasn’t preachy or tried to change people. I’ve had similar experiences with others. But I figure they are a cult but maybe not had harmful as the JW.
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Administering a Blood Transfusion When Directed by a Superior- Jehovah's Witness Policy
by Ron.W. inadministering a blood transfusion when directed by a superior - jehovah's witness policy effective june 15th, 2018. while the hospital liasion committee elders were instructed that they may inform doctors and nurses of this decision, this letter was not allowed to be distributed to anyone outside of hlc members.. as a result of the concealment of this letter, and by virtue of the fact that this information was only to be shared verbally with jehovah's witness medical professionals and others, confusion erupted across the united states and in other branch offices of jehovah's witnesses.
countless letters were received at watchtower headquarters in new york from concerned jw nurses, paramedics, and others who were instructed verbally on this new policy, but which contradicted existing written policy that had been in effect for many decades.. in addition to letters from witness medical professionals, circuit overseers in the field wrote to the us branch and hospital information desk in new york about the problems caused by this unreleased policy.
for example, south carolina circuit overseer brandon roberts reported to headquarters that "the majority of the nurses in our circuit were not aware of this updated policy.
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I work with 2 nurses that are jw. When all three of us are on the same shift and floor I will administer their blood to their patients. But they will monitor and adjust the flow rate. Not sure what the difference is in their mind after I do the initial administration. They are still part of the treatment
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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!
by pistolpete injust a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.
today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.
what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.
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"What about non-transgender men who have received organ transplants (such as a heart, liver, and kidneys) from genetic women (perhaps from their sister) and are thus now partly genetically women?"
What is non-transgender men?
you mean men?
Wow, you actually wrote this and are serious? A man who receives any transplant from a female doesn't make them "partly genetically women". In fact to even have that organ function in their body they have to take immunosuppressive drugs for life because the body views it as a foreign entity.
In fact even with transplants gender matters. A male has a 22% higher chance of rejecting a kidney transplant from a woman than receiving one from a man. Additionally men who received heart transplant from women had an increase 13% higher chance of rejection compared to receiving it from man. Lastly, the death rate was higher for men receiving kidney, heart, and liver transplant from women.
"Researcher Martin Zeier, MD, of the department of internal medicine at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and colleagues say that sex differences related to how the immune system responds to a transplant may explain the findings. Previous research has suggested that women mount a much stronger immune response to transplanted organs than men."
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, October Issue 2002
A biological male and female are determined by genetics not if they have a "vulva, labia, and a vagina". It is determined by the actual genetic code within their cells, which impacts protein production, enzymes, hormones, etc.
I think delusional JW is a more fitting name.
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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!
by pistolpete injust a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.
today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.
what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.
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How people want to identify is not important to me and I can respect it. If you want me to use certain pronouns to describe you I take no issue. How I personally view your biological sex is another matter. There is a difference and to suggest otherwise can have deadly outcomes.
I'm a cardiac RN and males and female present differently when it comes to diagnosing a possible infarction. Though men and women hearts are structurally the same, women likely have less troponin proteins then men. Troponin I proteins are released into the blood stream when the heart is damaged and we use that to determine infarction vs ischemia. (There are other tools also such as ct scan and ekg for st elevation.) Biologicals males and females have different specific lab value we check to determine this. In addition to other tests, a course of action is determined by the medical doctor. I can tell you from experience that it is a difference if that patient will be on an heparin infusion over night or whether the Cath lab will do a heart catherization that night.
In addition to working as a cardiac nurse I also work per diem as an addiction nurse. The focus is for our clients to attend group therapy and proceed with their personal therapy session. The company have two separate dorms on a 25 acre land. Females are in one dorm and males in another. There are no private rooms, it is double occupancy. The company allows men that identify as women to dorm with the females. There have been countless incidence where the transgender females are having sex with the females. Not to mention other issues that arise when you place a biological male with females that have had sexual trauma. All the wikipedia post doesn't counter real world experience. Additionally, for anyone that has completed college will tell you that wikipedia is not an accepted form of reference and would get you a nice F on your paper.
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Six Screens announcing passing of “MINIMUS”
by RESPECTFUL OBSERVER inhttps://youtu.be/ty_2l8zynvq.
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JW have not been a part of my life for a long time. I figured out this religion was kooky in my teenage year and glad it didn't impact my adult life. However some people that were bizarre in the religion are still nutty when they leave. That Shirley comes across as a nutty cat lady. -
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No more Questions from MINIMUS
by was a new boy inminimus former jw, prolific poster on jwn died.. minimus.
joined 19 years ago.
started 4,139 topics.
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RIP
I've been lurking early 2000 before joining. I would pop in and out over the decades and maybe read actively for several months and then stop. Often time when I would return I would notice postings from several are silent and find out they had pass. I suspect a lot of the older ones who joined this some 20 years ago are pushing 70 plus. I hope they found some peace and enjoyment in life after leaving the watch tower.
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Serious Question: Are You Hearing About Anyone With The Flu Anymore or A Cold?
by minimus infor years everyone was told they had to get the flu shot.
because the flu was dangerous and it could even kill you.
now, hardly anyone talks about the flu or having a cold.
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Before COVID I would have several older patients on my unit at the hospital with flu. I haven't had many admitted with the flu since 2019. However they hospital doesn't dx anyone that I know of with covid unless their pcr comes back positive. They may be in isolation for COVID if they have symptoms until a test confirms it. I think the explanation that Jeffro gave is basically what is happening. I also read some studies that COVID prevents the flu virus from taking over. I'm off to work but will see if I can find the peer review study and post later.
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Are You Concerned About Inflation?
by Simon ini saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.
that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?
they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.
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I graduated high school in 1995 and worked in retail starting at $5.50 an hour. My manager was making $50,000 a year and I thought if I could get that income I would be set. If I work no overtime I make $67,000 a year as a cardiac RN. To have the same purchasing power for $50,000 in 1995 I need to make around $86,000. Therefore I have to work overtime/extra shifts to have that purchasing power.
The reported inflation is just not true. Sure you can buy cheap TVs and other electronics but you don't consume those products daily or even monthly. What we consume has exploded in prices over the decades and wages have not kept in pace. Lastly, when I enter the work force decades ago I could if I wanted to put my money in safe investments paying 4-6% interest. Now you lucky if the banks give you 0.5%. You really have no choice but to invest in equities, precious metals, start a business, or invest in real estate.
As far as minimum wage being increased to $15 an hour I'm not opposed but there will be negative consequences. In my hospital they pay their CNA or patient techs $16 an hour. Do you think a CNA will continue to work cleaning feces and urine off patients when they can make basically the same at a low skill job? Unless a "wage ripple" effect happens and raises all wages I don't see it being beneficial. Perhaps someone can point me to a study concerning this.
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Nurses are unwilling to take the COVID-19 Vaccine
by adjusted knowledge ini work at two separate hospitals and most of the rns i work with have stated they won't take the vaccine.
i've read a report that 1/3 of rns will refuse the vaccine.
for those in other countries do you see this being an issue or is it more an american phenomenon?.
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Then they should be fired. Also not allowed to be employed in the health care industry until they do,
The hospitals can't keep the units staff with RNs and so I doubt they will resort to mass firings. The heavily hit area hospitals already paying travel RNS $3,000-$6,000 a week to work and still struggle to fill positions.
The two hospitals I work at have a mandatory flu vaccine policy and refusal requires wearing a mask the entire flu season. I've not seen nor heard of what the policy will be concerning the covid-19 vaccine. I attend to take it as I do with the flu vaccine.
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Nurses are unwilling to take the COVID-19 Vaccine
by adjusted knowledge ini work at two separate hospitals and most of the rns i work with have stated they won't take the vaccine.
i've read a report that 1/3 of rns will refuse the vaccine.
for those in other countries do you see this being an issue or is it more an american phenomenon?.
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I work at two separate hospitals and most of the RNs I work with have stated they won't take the vaccine. I've read a report that 1/3 of RNs will refuse the vaccine. For those in other countries do you see this being an issue or is it more an American phenomenon?
Coronavirus vaccination: Nurses, physicians await clinical trails (usatoday.com)