My mom gets in-home respite care through the Visiting Nurses Association. Some nurses are smokers and my mom is sensitive to the smell, as I'm sure other clients might be. I think it'd be wonderful if healthcare organizations could offer information/resources for their employees regarding electronic cigarettes and vaping. I realize it's an individual's choice, and it's true some health care organizations now go so far as require their employees to be smoke free entirely. With the VNA, these nurses are in close contact for extended periods of time with single patients, sometimes doing heavy lifting and moving of patients, which requires strenuous exertion, causing sweating and heavy breathing. The wording there sounds awkward, but basically it's to say that I know I was a closet smoker, and did all I could to hide the fact, but I discovered that even so, when I would really exert myself to a heavy sweat then ew cigarette smell is revealed. Ramblings, and dunno the point, but it was just an idea or something and wanted to jot it here.
