This blew me away last night. I am also a nurse, recently retired, and I asked my best friend, Donna, the following question last night after she confirmed her hospital's policy:
Q - "Okay. Let me ask you this. Do you agree that a trauma/heart attack/stroke or any patient coming into the ER should be denied treatment if they refuse a CoVID test?"
Her immediate and emphatic answer - "YES."
My immediate response was laughter. I then asked her, "If I agreed to a CoVID test, could I choose which one I want from the 409 different available tests?"
She replied that the hospital where she works (a Catholic one at that) "uses 2 or 3 different tests."
My final question was: "What if my CoVID test was positive, but I was completely asymptomatic?" Her reply, "You are admitted to the CoVID floor."
Since the very beginning, Donna has been 100% CoVID brainwashed. We just don't talk about it. I tried a few times in the past, and her anger was immediate, as in, "I don't want to hear it."
I believe I must end my 40-year friendship with Donna.
Just a reminder for your fren:
Nightingale Pledge – Nurses Oath
Below is the Nightingale Pledge:
I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavour to aid the physician in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.
Is this a pledge all nurses make?
As I understand it, yes.
Thanks.
Ha! Unfortunately, the majority of nurses practicing today are not even aware of this pledge.
I went to a nursing graduation once and the Nightingale pledge was part of the ceremony. Granted, that was awhile ago, but I assumed it was still being done, just like the Hippocratic Oath.
I don't think they take the Hippocratic Oath anymore.
Apparently not.