I recently returned to work(off caring for my mother s/p a hip surgery). I work at the bedside in ICU/PCUs. I worked on the front lines when the Coof ramped up(3 years ago). Upon returning to work I was surprised to see that Remdesivir was still being ordered for Coof+ patients with the kidney/liver damage that it causes. I have never given the vax and won't; I won't give Remdesivir(I am unvaxxed and I refused Remdesivir in December 2021 when I was an inpatient with the Coof...or whatever it truly is...). If I can locate the studies/finding should I have copies of the Remdesivir trials? Will I be asked to leave/be fired for refusing to administer dangerous treatments? I am, also, sending this question to America's Frontline Doctors...not sure if I will get an answer....BTW, thank you to everyone on this site. It makes me feel "less crazy"!
Looking for legal advice regarding my job as a nurse. What are the consequences if I refuse to administer/give Remdesivir, the Vax, etc.? Do I have any legal recourse as an "advocate"?
LAWFAGS IN THE HOUSE?
You could suggest that the patient look up a resource about Veklury or Remdesivir and tell them they have the right to refuse it...that they can decide for themselves. You could have links printed on a card to hand to them and entitle it "open-sourced documents for informed consent".
You will get fired, but you may be able to sue later. You would be "in the right", because you would just be giving informed consent. If they still want the meds, refuse to be the one to administer it.
That is what I would do. I would never kill someone to keep my job.
I feel for you!
Hey. We need more nurse advocates to work hand in hand with Frontline Doctors. I go to one in MO. She can prescribe Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine within our state, and she administers vitamin-infused IVs. She has saved thousands of lives!
A lot of hospitals don't want the nurses handing out any material that's not from their "approved" system.
Yea. I agree. I know it would get the nurses fired, but there is an obligation to inform the patient, so the nurse might win a lawsuit if fired...especially if the link provided is to the NIH, FDA, or big pharm website directly...not to a Stew Peters-type source.
Or not, but we definitely have to tell the patient how Remdesivir didn't even make it through the ebola trials, because it shut down kidneys. That info is on the NIH website.. We also could give them a link to the trials in France.
The info about Paxlovid is right on the big pharm website, so, I wonder if warning about it by just giving the actual Paxlovid info from their own website could help us win a lawsuit if we get fired. That info says it is investigational and has numerous side effects and dangerous drug interactions. It even says their may be more of those that are unknown because it hasn't been used often enough to know.
Yea. We would be fired. But, it would be an honorable way to go out..and would be quite a statement...if all we gave the patient was info right from these big pharm, NIH, and FDA sources.
Agree. The duty is to the patient.