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localroger

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8. Those alarms are designed to be annoying

Reply to Alice Kramden (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 10, 2021, 10:47 AM

Oct 2021

...so that they will be quickly attended. The Covid situation is an edge case the alarm designers did not anticipate, and they make things worse instead of better.

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Did you know that #COVID19 has a sound? Listen to this ICU nurse describe it. [View all] demmiblue Oct 2021 OP

Hearing that for hours on end must take its toll. n/t PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #1

So awful Alice Kramden Oct 2021 #2

Those alarms are designed to be annoying localroger Oct 2021 #8

Alarms Old Okie Oct 2021 #12

My experience as well kcr Oct 2021 #26

Despite all of this, so many nurses refuse the vaccine and believe the lies mucifer Oct 2021 #3

mr darwin just has to be on this. mopinko Oct 2021 #4

There are dumb health care workers out there IronLionZion Oct 2021 #7

And they eat McDonalds hamburgers thinking it is actually meat ! HUAJIAO Oct 2021 #11

Or have Rebl2 Oct 2021 #9

Over 90% of nurses are vaccinated. Elessar Zappa Oct 2021 #17

Thank you. nt Maru Kitteh Oct 2021 #28

"Many" KentuckyWoman Oct 2021 #18

I work with 4 other nurses. One is an APN the rest of us are RNs. The APN and I were the mucifer Oct 2021 #24

I can only imagine how stressful to work in healthcare with a proud Trumper. KentuckyWoman Oct 2021 #25

I am not sure about the whole system. I know the doctors have been trying really hard to educate mucifer Oct 2021 #27

OMG, this is just heartbreaking, how do these nurses do it? lark Oct 2021 #5

Wrong audience. Show it to the health care workers who won't get vaccinated. SharonClark Oct 2021 #6

The media should be airing this everywhere! So dam sad!! healthnut7 Oct 2021 #10

How horrible, and dreadful for these nurses immersed in tragedy. Hortensis Oct 2021 #13

mighty noisy for a democratic hoax KG Oct 2021 #14

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2021 #15

This is triggering for me Sunsky Oct 2021 #16

damn Bucky Oct 2021 #19

Kick dalton99a Oct 2021 #20

If you're wondering what W-EMCO is, I looked it up. BobTheSubgenius Oct 2021 #21

Thank you for posting. The scope of the reasons for their burn out BeckyDem Oct 2021 #22

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Oct 2021 #23