Various Retailers are offering
Special Discounts as a
Thank You to
First Responders and Medical Professionals listed below when you verify your eligibility. Thanks OptimusPrimeAutobot
Example Deals:
- The North Face is offering 50% Off Non-Sale Items to Healthcare Workers.
- Included professions are: doctors, nurses, technicians, medical researchers, hospital workers.
- adidas.com is offering 40% Off to Verified Medical Professionals, First Responders, Nurses and Military Members
- Nike.com is offering a unique 20% Off Promo Code to Medical Professionals and First Responders.
- Reebok.com is offering 50% Off to Teachers, Nurses, Military Personnel, First Responders, and Government Employees.
- Headspace.com is offering Headspace Plus Meditation App Subscription for Free to US Healthcare Professionals who work in public health settings.
- Access lasts through 2020.
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Things like this is where we can go home buy stuff we like and be like "yey some perks!"
Thanks for the companies and to people who dont go "OMG why are they getting discounts and not me!"
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For the people whining....I have worked in my healthcare job for 20 years and ALL the time I have heard of the perks and 'free stuff' of other professions and workers. All the time....from business owners with their tax breaks and autonomy to finance and even yes.... All types of workers, to military personnel with the GI Bill and veterans with nice mortgages to teachers getting summers off etc etc etc . And there are definate downsides of those professions and jobs too. All of my professional life....all I had was 'helping people' and some job stability. Benefits...just OK with no stock options etc. I will work until 65 or maybe later. I own up to it...this is my choice. Not even a doctor's salary....I'm not a physician. And now people get all upset because of a #$_& shoe discount???? Oh....50 percent Off of a shirt???And have the audacity to say why not other professions? All I see here is narrow mindedness and jealousy. Get over yourselves people take a step back and appreciate what you have. The healthcare worker is probably not going to save more than 100 or 200 bucks at the most, and the average healthcare worker isn't the type of person to try to profit from this. If it makes you feel better the discounts won't last forever. Get over it your time will come too. Geez grow up a little. And I didn't even mention about the virus.
The greater need for discounts is the 36 million Americans who are unemployed.
It would be so cool if a retailer said, show us your unemployment check and we'll give you 50% off.
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Everyone knew the type of training, work, salary and reputation they were going to face when they pursued their career. And most people who considered a healthcare profession considered becoming a nurse or doctor. If you felt nurses or doctors were being awarded more than they invested, why didn't you choose to become one? Most likely because of various lifestyle factors that made RT more appealing at the time - quicker training, lower initial investment, decent pay, better lifestyle. You chose that field. What's stopping you from becoming a doctor then or now? Too costly (both in tuition and opportunity cost), too much time, time away from family/friends, too much stress? That was the doctor's investment and the salary is their return on investment. For some, it rewards handsomely. For others, it's barely enough.
Indeed, you probably kept residents from "killing" (a handful of) patients. That's why they are in training and you are not. You went through training at one point too and someone probably stopped you from killing a patient. Your training is focused on the vent and what you have over your colleagues is that experience. Nurses and doctors have to balance a lot more tasks and take on significantly more responsibility, but don't think they can't do what you do if they also had more vent training. I think RTs should get more recognition during this pandemic and should qualify for these discounts, but if you feel like you got shafted in your career over your colleagues, become a critical care nurse or doctor and take on the additional responsibilities for your COVID patient. You too can administer their medications, manage their pumps, wipe them down, turn them, prone them, keep track of their diet, bowel movements and urine output, cannulate them, intubate them and run their code.
Is it worth it? If the answer is yes, then welcome as you embark on your journey to become a nurse or doctor and you'll understand how demanding it can be. If the answer is no, then you've determined the value in what they do.
New RRT's are paid terribly compared to RN's; and in case you are not aware the education requirements are about the same with 2 or 4 year degrees for either field(although both fields are trying to eliminate the associate programs) I was fortunate Villanova's BSN program was under a year bc I already had a BS.
Respiratory is unfortunately poorly represented in many hospital settings and unfortunately many times an afterthought when it comes to rate adjustments where as Nursing representing greater than 50% of most hospital staff in this country.
At my age, I have what I need; Thanks for your concern about my future.
I wish you and all, the best with theirs!
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The only thing that triggers me about deals like this is my second cousin.
She's a CNA but works in a rehabilitation/assisted living center (or as she describes it "where people go to die") and posts on social media like 5xs a day about being a frontline hero when she has 0 covid patients and posts her fooling around and did I mentioned she took a road trip to LA and went to 3 house parties in the last month? She's putting these people at high risk people at risk while she gets free Starbucks a day and buying tons of shit with these deals. I talked to her and threaten to report her to her job but she just said "well blah blah blah CNA is doing it too I'm fine I don't have it"
I work for a biotech company and helped bring our covid testing kit to market and when my family was FaceTiming hers and my parents were explaining what I do she said "yeah but she's not a frontlines tho" lol.
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The only thing that triggers me about deals like this is my second cousin.
She's a CNA but works in a rehabilitation/assisted living center (or as she describes it "where people go to die") and posts on social media like 5xs a day about being a frontline hero when she has 0 covid patients and posts her fooling around and did I mentioned she took a road trip to LA and went to 3 house parties in the last month? She's putting these people at high risk people at risk while she gets free Starbucks a day and buying tons of shit with these deals. I talked to her and threaten to report her to her job but she just said "well blah blah blah CNA is doing it too I'm fine I don't have it"
I work for a biotech company and helped bring our covid testing kit to market and when my family was FaceTiming hers and my parents were explaining what I do she said "yeah but she's not a frontlines tho" lol.
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