This sucks

It seems the folks upstairs have heard the threats of lynching or worse from the first floor and have backed off the masks at all times order. I think sailormedic came up with the number one reason that administration revisited the issue and that is how other non flu patients would view the always masked staff and the panic it could potentially cause. We serve a very diverse community and have many non english speaking patients and waits for interpreters can be long especially for the more exotic languages. I do believe that staff disapproval came in a close second but im not sure what other factors played into the reversal.

I found out that we have an H1N1 steering committee that is working system wide with flu policy but because I'm not sure who's on it I will refrain from publicly ridiculing their earlier actions. We all have are jobs and some of the decisions we make might seem sound at the time but after you run it around the block a few times it can really begin to look like a boneheaded move. I feared we might lose good people to this decision and to be honest I was thinking of taking the flu season off myself. Since I have only been working six to eight shifts a month I could easily make up the difference with my full time outside job. I'm just glad things have worked out because I really enjoy my time in the ER and would hate to see us lose any of our people.