Hospital to stop delivering babies after staff resigns instead of getting vaccinated.

[Bleacher Creature]

This is utterly and completely insane. How do we beat this pandemic if people are so brainwashed that they'll throw away their careers for a bunch of debunked conspiracy theories?

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[DURHAM D]

1. Sadly one of the things that is happening with this pandemic

is that people are losing respect for nurses. It is really too bad.

I think it is important to realize that many of them don't think of themselves as working in a scientific field. They are more like social workers and just care givers than medical people.

That said...get the damn shot.

[luv2fly]

16. Some don't deserve respect

I used to work with many. Some awesome, some not, like all professions.

[live love laugh]

21. Sadly true. Some are qualified many aren't.

Just like those in any profession/line of work.

[Hortensis]

29. For perspective, they have 650 EMPLOYEES, 464 (73%) currently vaccinated.

30 have resigned, of whom 7 are from the maternity department. "but there are still 165 employees who have not yet shared their decision with hospital management."

Probably a higher percentage of nurses are vaccinated, and of course those all deserve respect and gratitude for being there.

As one embattled nurse said angrily about those who endanger everyone by not getting vaccinated, but especially acute care workers, she's not supposed to be willing to sacrifice her life to work as a nurse. They're owed incredibly more than this depraved indifference to their lives.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. On the PLUS side, we now have a way to divide those who deserve student debt relief

from those who do not.

[OneGrassRoot]

31. That's brilliant. n/t

[NickB79]

3. Good. Unvaccinated nurses shouldn't be around newborns

How do we know they didn't skip their other vaccines? Measles? Whooping cough? Mumps? Chickenpox?

Go work for minimum wage at McDonald's.

[mopinko]

4. hepatitis.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Exactly, what other vaccines have they skipped? Endangering all of the newborns.

They do not belong in health care, period.
Much less working with infants.

[durablend]

5. So lemme get this straight

A nurse is gonna tell me all these things I as a patient need to do when (s)he won't even get a DAMN SHOT?

[TomSlick]

6. If a ran a hospital and a nurse (or doctor) refused to be vaccinated, my response would be simple.

You're too damned stupid to work here. You're fired.

[LuckyLib]

22. Right on target. Have the pink slip ready!

[Bettie]

7. So, nurses who work around newborns and new mothers

are not willing to take steps to safeguard their patients.

Wow.

This is an interesting point after the many stories about new mothers dying and the increased rate of stillbirths in Mississippi.

I don't get it...do they get ANY vaccines?

[DBoon]

8. original article

A hospital in New York plans to stop delivering babies later this month because too many maternity workers resigned rather than get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Lewis County Health System Chief Executive Officer Gerald R. Cayer announced at a news conference Friday afternoon that the maternity department would be closed on Sept. 25 until they can find enough vaccinated nurses to safely reopen it.

Cayer told reporters in Lowville, which is in an area known as the North Country of New York, that seven of the 30 people who have resigned from the hospital worked in the maternity department, according to the news site NNY360.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/09/hospital-to-stop-delivering-babies-after-staff-resigns-instead-of-getting-vaccinated.html

[SergeStorms]

15. It's Elise Stefanik's district.

Need it say more?

[Ligyron]

9. They should lose their licenses.

[FloridaBlues]

10. They may find it difficult to find any hospital to work because most if not all

Will put in place vaccines or testing that will be their option. I’m so very disappointed in fellow nurses not protecting themselves or patients.

[Texaswitchy]

11. My housemate is a retired nurse, mostly Army service.

She can't understand these nurses.

[lindysalsagal]

30. As of now some places are hiring un-vaxxed nurses, but they'll become

super-spreaders and eventually have to vax or close. They're kidding themselves if they think a non-vax hospital/doc office job is a good career move. It's a death sentence. This. Is. Religion.

[Hortensis]

32. Actually, the big problem is that far-right political zealotry has REPLACED religion.

That some people, including religious professionals, claim to still adhere to church doctrine and the teachings of Christ does not make it so.

They make me wish there really was a hell. At least I now understand why the gates to heaven were said to be so narrow and most don't make it through. I used to think their god was really mean to close out all these decent people, but those who created scripture had more experience of human failings than I did then.

[lindysalsagal]

34. The fact that they "believe" the crap the gop says proves there was never any substance to biblical

gospel. It was never real, and deep down, they know it. They've chosen a real man instead of their invisible fake god. And it's killing many of them. And still they cling to something to believe in.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Medical staff who do not believe in standard of care, especially during a pandemic, need to go.

They should lose their license as well.

[DFW]

14. So much for the "pro-life" people

“Protect the unborn. Don’t kill them until after they’re born.”

[left-of-center2012]

17. More info here ...

"NY hospital pauses some services as staff quit"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215845852

[struggle4progress]

18. "What next? Requiring me to get tested for tuberculosis? Insisting I wash my hands

before assisting with delivery? Not letting me give patients tubes of horse dewormer? Rules against spitting on the floor?"

[marie999]

27. I was a computer operator at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale Florida in the 90s.

I had to be tested for tuberculosis.

[littlemissmartypants]

19. I've been there. The hospital will be fine, better off without them.

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15846268

[bullwinkle428]

20. Our biggest local healthcare organization REQUIRES the flu shot every single

year for healthcare providers, so why is this so fucking different????

[ismnotwasm]

23. My hospital sometimes has an alarming number of positive Covid in our L&D

Plus we are always short. That many nurses is a serious loss for that hospital. Those nurses are also embarrassing assholes. We start out with a basic science degree. I don’t get them. So weird.

[kelly1mm]

24. My niece is an LPN at a nursing home in Maryland

And they are calling family members to arrange for removing patients to home care or alternative nursing homes (of which there are no beds available). The problem is that over 1/3 of the staff is not vaccinated and refuses to be. The majority of the African American staff is not vaccinated and is refusing citing the Tuskegee experiments. They are already planning to close one of 3 wards and that is with going to 12 hour shifts.

This may end up being really bad.

[AmBlue]

25. This would solve the problem:

Covid tent units in the rear parking lots of hospitals for unvaxxed people who are infected. Let the unvaxxed RNs and staff care for the unvaxxed patients. When they run out of tent space then the unvaxxed, infected patients have to wait for another unvaxxed idiot patient to leave the tent, in a body bag or on foot, I don't care. Of course, ALL unvaxxed staff should have to be rapid-tested EVERY DAY and PAY for that testing out of their own pockets.

Reserve the main hospital and vaccinated staff for vaccinated patients. Don't waste our finest medical care and resources on idiots who don't give a shit about anyone but themselves. They do not have the right to both be plague rats AND consume all our hospitals' resources so responsible, vaccinated people can't find care.

[Silent3]

26. Is there something about maternity ward work that attracts more anti-vax types?

A lot of the anti-vax propadanda comes from the "mommy blogger" contingent, where there's an unfortunate intersection of nurturing with all things "natural", where a preference for that which is deemed natural turns into a lot of woo, pseudoscience and anti-science.

Maybe a lot of that crosses over into people who focus on delivering babies as well?

[FakeNoose]

28. Notice of good paying jobs available to trained medical professionals

Low cost of living, great salary and job security, even better benefits! Enjoy outdoorsy lifestyle in the beautiful Upstate New York region near the Great Lakes, Finger Lakes and Adirondack Mountains.

Applicants must be vaccinated, no exceptions will be made.

[Patton French]

33. Indeed

It is truly mind boggling.

[MerryBlooms]

35. Southern Oregon was prepared for our rw nutter nurses to quit under our madate,

so they hired an entire company that specializes in traveling nurses to come in to replace these anti vax nurses, plus National Guard. I haven't checked headlines today, but as far as I know, we haven't had nurses quit in large numbers yet. I just got home from work, and am getting ready for a class and dinner, but Google will bring it up for y'all.