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CrispyQ

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9. During Covid, while my county had a mask mandate which lasted about 10 weeks,

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:57 PM

Sep 22

I was at the medical center quite a few times & three different nurses thanked me for being polite or kind as they escorted me back to the lobby. Never before had a nurse said that to me & I figured things had gotten really ugly & probably because of the masks.

Your daughter has my gratitude. I don't know how anyone goes into medicine that deals with patients.

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Nurses in Iowa Are Fighting an Unprecedented Anti-Union Campaign [View all] Celerity Sep 22 OP

I don't know what their compensation is, but they deserve way more...more of everything. CrispyQ Sep 22 #1

The schedule is brutal for my daughter exboyfil Sep 22 #4

I don't know how people work schedules like that. CrispyQ Sep 22 #8

DURec leftstreet Sep 22 #2

Daughter worked mental health for four years in an Iowa hospital exboyfil Sep 22 #3

During Covid, while my county had a mask mandate which lasted about 10 weeks, CrispyQ Sep 22 #9

Thanks - passing on to Iowa friends rurallib Sep 22 #5

cross-posted in the Iowa group Celerity Sep 22 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Celerity Sep 22 #7