003 Realities of a CCU nurse working on the front lines in the Covid-19 Pandemic | Tiffany Toulouse |The Open Forum Podcast

The Open Forum Podcast

On this episode we talk with Tiffany Toulouse - a CCU nurse with almost a decade of experience currently doing her PhD from Canada who shares with us her experience during the last two years of the pandemic, having been selected for the rapid intubation team - a team specifically selected to respond to COVID-19 patients during the early part of the pandemic in 2020 and covering multiple wards during the pandemic until December 2021. We cover how her experience in the hospital differed to what was seen on the news, potential financial incentives for hospitals to take certain treatment paths, the increase in suicide rates and the impact that had on the ICU as well as the impact of missed treatments due to hospitals working on reduced capacity and much, much more! Join us as we talk very frankly about how it was working the front lines in the pandemic.

As always, a brief chapter list and under that some articles/documents covering some of the background to what Tiffany mentioned throughout the podcast.

00.50 intro
02.05 What has it been like working as a nurse during covid
05.00 Covid Rapid response team! (Avengers, Assemble!)
07.20 monetary incetives to maintain?
14.20 second wave - dofferent to media?
(mental health/suicide)
17.35 other alternatives to ease the preasure on healthcare?
20.30 icu rates for suicides/domestic abuse
26.20 unvax no bed no treatment
27.50 how was it in the wards during the peaks?
33.00 - lifestyle choices & lockdown
40.00 ivermectin in the world
46.00 covid second opinions nicole sirotek & remdesivir fatality/multi organ failure
49.00 remdesivir study vs. three drugs to justify study Financial incentives for remdesivir patients
52 mins patients not getting treatment?
54.00 What was the impact of the media's role in the covid space?
56.40 Trusted News Initiative
59.30 Canadian protests and truckers event (Episode recorded the day before the protest)
1.04.40 dont do your own research
1.05.20 biosecurity austria mandate other vaccines
1.06.30 impacts of mandates on healthcare
1.09.30 orangeville ask kitchen staff to hrlp on flloor
1.10.40 take aways

Incentives for covid19 Senator for minesota Dr. Scott Jensen (4.00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28loJIiE_8

Increase in domestic abuse
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195232/

Teen suicide attempts
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm?s_cid=mm7024e1_w&ACSTrackingID=DM59196&ACSTrackingLabel=Suspected%20Suicide%20Attempts%20Increased%20for%20Adolescents%20and%20Young%20Adults%20During%20COVID-19_DM59196&deliveryName=DM59196#contribAff

95% had extra co-morbidities
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities

78% vax deaths had 4 or more co-morbids
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a4.htm

Remdesivir Ebola study
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910993

Kitchen staff used to help nurses
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/01/22/orangeville-hospital-using-kitchen-staff-to-fill-nursing-vacancies-union/

Nicole Sirotek testimony
https://rumble.com/vt7tnf-registered-nurse-nicole-sirotek-shares-what-she-saw-on-the-front-lines-in-n.html

SickKids hospital POST VACCINE document

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fjzdPkttwE_XMB1OCrN7bCY6Vnyk7QMU/view?usp=sharing