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Washington State Senator Says Nurses Sit Around and Play Cards

pirate_girl

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Sure we do.
Like there is time for that?
https://cdn.wsna.org/post/index-2.h...mount-of-the-day-in-amending-rest-breaks-bill

In perhaps one of the most demeaning statements on the nursing profession since Joy Behar’s 2015 “doctor’s stethoscope” comments on The View, Washington State Senator Maureen Walsh proclaimed on the Senate floor that Critical Access Hospital nurses should be exempt from protections in mandatory overtime because they sit around and play cards most of the day.
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Bamby

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I spent enough time in the hospital to see what goes on, and can't say I approved of what I seen. Both the Nurses and aids were pushed silly for their entire 12 hour shift. Yea they worked 12's.. I learned to really despise buzzing through for help when I needed it simply because they were juggling around enough problems already...
 

tiredretired

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You know I honestly think that when liberals get up in the morning and look at themselves in the mirror the first thing that comes to their mind is how many people can I piss off today. I really do believe that. What other rational conclusion can one draw?
 

pirate_girl

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The senator is a Republican, but yes she may as well be one of those liberals.
I belong to a couple of nursing blogs on the web, and look at a group on Facebook.
There is anger and humour.
I prefer to take a light-hearted approach because we know what we do.
Anyway..
Haha..
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tiredretired

The Old Salt
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The senator is a Republican, but yes she may as well be one of those liberals.
I belong to a couple of nursing blogs on the web, and look at a group on Facebook.
There is anger and humour.
I prefer to take a light-hearted approach because we know what we do.
Anyway..
Haha..

Yep, anybody that stupid may as well be one of them.
 

Jim_S

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Hundreds of decks of playing cards arrive for Washington state lawmaker who criticized nurses
By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wa...able-time-playing-cards-sees-unusual-backlash

The Washington state senator who suggested that some nurses “play cards” during a “considerable” portion of their shifts received more than 600 packages of playing cards Tuesday as backlash over her remarks continued to grow.

The United Parcel Service location in Tumwater, Wash., said that it received 667 packages of playing cards addressed to state Sen. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, after an open letter criticizing her remarks circulated on Facebook last week and included Walsh’s P.O. box address, Seattle's KOMO-TV reported.

“You said that not all nurses deserve breaks as they just sit around playing cards while on shift anyway,” the letter read. “I know nurses who can go all night without food or a bathroom break. I know nurses with nerve damage and back pain from doing whatever it takes to take care of patients. I know nurses who cry in their cars. Do you think that’s where they play cards, Senator Walsh?”

The letter went on to predict that after the next election cycle Walsh may find herself with “plenty of time to play cards and plenty of cards to play with.”

This is an open letter to Senator Maureen Walsh -
Dear Senator Walsh,
You said that not all nurses deserve breaks as they just sit around playing cards while on shift anyway.
I don’t know any nurses who play cards, Senator Walsh. I know nurses who care for babies who were born with their spines on the outside of their bodies and brains that won’t stop bleeding. I know nurses who hold infants that can’t stop crying because they were born addicted to heroin and meth amphetamines.
I know nurses who roll those same babies down to the morgue when they finally do stop crying. Do you think that’s where they play cards, Senator Walsh?
I know nurses who care for patients that no one else cares about - the homeless, the forgotten and even the psychotic with the same dedication they would show a celebrity...or a Senator.
I know nurses who can go all night without food or a bathroom break. I know nurses with nerve damage and back pain from doing whatever it takes to take care of patients. I know nurses who cry in their cars. Do you think that’s where they play cards, Senator Walsh?
I know nurses who are hard as steel when delivering life saving treatment to dying patients and softer than a whisper when delivering the news that it didn’t work to the family. Do you think they all play cards together after that, Senator Walsh?
I know one nurse who is asleep in the next room right now after her second 12 hour shift of the holiday weekend. She left her shoes outside because she didn’t want to bring all the blood and bile that she walked through last night into our home. I wish she could leave everything else from the hospital outside that easy. She can’t. It stays with her.
Sometimes she doesn’t want to talk about it. Sometimes she can’t wait to talk about it.
Sometimes she laughs until she cries and sometimes she just cries but, regardless of those sometimes, she’ll be on time for her next shift.
She doesn’t play cards either Senator Walsh - but I do. That’s how I made my living once upon a time before I met a nurse who changed my life. You and I have that in common. Nurses are going to change your life too.
You’ll find out how right after the next election cycle. You’ll have plenty of time to play cards and plenty of cards to play with yourself then.
Sincerely,
One of the millions of people who love a nurse

Walsh first drew criticism from nursing professionals while debating a bill last week that would require uninterrupted meal and rest breaks for nurses and would also provide mandatory overtime protections for them.

She pushed for an amendment that would exclude hospitals with fewer than 25 beds from the provision, arguing that such small facilities struggle to provide 24-hour care as it is.

“I would submit to you that those (small hospital) nurses probably do get breaks,” Walsh said. “They probably play cards for a considerable amount of the day.”

Despite the bill being passed with Walsh’s amendment, her ill-received comments sparked a flurry of social media posts mocking her.

Walsh addressed the issue Monday, apologizing to those who were offended and saying she would spend a day shadowing a nurse throughout his or her 12-hour shift.

“I want to offer my heartfelt apologies to those I offended with my comments on the Senate floor last Tuesday. I was tired, and in the heat of argument on the Senate floor, I said some things about nurses that were taken out of context – but still they crossed the line.”

In 2012, some comments by Walsh on a different subject also went viral, the News Tribune of Tacoma reported. That year Walsh bucked most other members of the state GOP by speaking out in support of same-sex marriage. The state's House subsequently backed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

Paulina Dedaj is a writer/ reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter @PaulinaDedaj.



Washington state Sen. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, angered nurses by commenting in a speech that some nurses may spend a lot of time playing cards in rural hospitals. (Associated Press)
 

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rugerman

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As a kidney failure patient I have spent a lot of time in the hospital, most (99%) of the nurses are over worked and under paid. Good folks.
 

FrancSevin

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I remember as a firefighter paramedic, being accused of the same thing.'

It simply is not true. I can personally attest,,,; Cards are a boring waste of time.

We watched porn all day.:bolt:

I can also attest, that besides our neglected wives, the only other women in our lives, were the nurses.
At the end of every emergency run, we handed the patient off to them. Not to well paid doctors, but the Nurses.
God Bless every one of them!!!:applause::applause::applause:
 

Lenny

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I have a couple of friends who are nurses. None of them play cards on duty. They earn their pay!
 
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