As a nurse, one option I have is informing patients of the fact that whether it’s remdesivir, the antibody infusion, or a vaccine, etc., they’re all emergency use authorization... which is a concept totally new to medicines mass-used inside the hospital. Nurses aren’t routinely familiar with this concept. One of the hospitals I work at, there’s a form for the physician to have the patient agree to remdesivir, since it’s EUA, same with antibodies. I’ve had patients refuse even the antibody infusion (which is supposed to be amazing, right? ... ) after I informed them of the EUA, gave them the paperwork that came from the pharmacy for them to read and then answered (as best I could) their questions. I’ve told numerous patients that I’ve tried to do my own research on what the antibodies actually are and it seems to be impossible to get any real information. I tell them I don’t really know what they are other than what the description is. A patient even asked me if I would take them, and I told them honestly I don’t think so. Anyways, once properly informed, people often make the correct decisions. It’s all about what information they’re given.

But to your point, nurses mostly can’t do much, but they know the most!

As a nurse, one option I have is informing patients of the fact that whether it’s remdesivir, the antibody infusion, or a vaccine, etc., they’re all emergency use authorization. One of the hospitals I work at, there’s a form for the physician to have the patient agree to remdesivir, since it’s EUA, same with antibodies. I’ve had patients refuse even the antibody infusion (which is supposed to be amazing, right? ... ) after I informed them of the EUA, gave them the paperwork that came from the pharmacy for them to read and then answered (as best I could) their questions. I’ve told numerous patients that I’ve tried to do my own research on what the antibodies actually are and it seems to be impossible to get any real information. I tell them I don’t really know what they are other than what the description is. A patient even asked me if I would take them, and I told them honestly I don’t think so. Anyways, once properly informed, people often make the correct decisions. It’s all about what information they’re given.

But to your point, nurses mostly can’t do much, but they know the most!

As a nurse, one option I have is informing patients of the fact that whether it’s remdesivir, the antibody infusion, or a vaccine, etc., they’re all emergency use authorization. One of the hospitals I work at, there’s a form for the physician to have the patient agree to remdesivir, since it’s EUA, same with antibodies. I’ve had patients refuse antibody infusion after I informed them of the EUA, gave them the paperwork that came from the pharmacy for them to read and then answered (as best I could) their questions. Once properly informed, people often make the correct decisions. It’s all about what information they’re given.

But to your point, nurses mostly can’t do much, but they know the most!