Dear editor:
This morning I read a letter from soon to be former Rep. Jeannette Ward.
I am very sorry to read that her daughter is leaving the nursing program at Central Wyoming College. As a graduate of the program, I went on to nurse in Fremont County for 13 years.
As her first rotation was going to be at Westward Heights, I surmised that she is in her first year of the two year program.
I only wish she had stayed in the program long enough to get her science classes under her belt. She would have learned why the Covid PCR test is very specific to the Covid corona virus and why the at-home test may not be quite as specific.
She would have learned that her first responsibility is to the care and SAFETY of her patients, and in the case of working at Westward Heights, her elders.
Had she continued her nursing program she would have learned that nursing is an amazing career with many opportunities for diverse areas of nursing care, many of which require vaccinations and testing for the best care, and SAFETY of their patients.
As a practicing nurse or nursing student, she has the total freedom to visit HER grandmother without testing for Covid (positive cases can be asymptomatic especially in young people), but she doesn’t have the freedom to visit or work with mine or anyone else’s elders in a long term care facility.
To Rep. Ward’s daughter, I only wish you had stayed in the nursing program long enough to realize and learn about what you don’t know.
Sincerely,
Lucy Smith
Lander
