Covid Patients on enhanced droplet precautions in a regular room

[Kitiger, RN]

2 minutes ago, turtlesRcool said:

Not  necessarily.  Any rule-out unit is going to be mixed.  The PUI patients move to regular floors if they test negative, or the COVID floor if they test positive (space permitting because there's not always room on the appropriate unit).  The PUM patients never go to clean floors (unless, I suppose, they are there long enough to qualify for a quarantine).  Many (hopefully most) of them are negative, but they're still in a unit with COVID+ patients for their stay.  I don't like it, but I also can't think of a better option.

Uhh. . . PUM?

[turtlesRcool]

11 minutes ago, Kitiger said:

Uhh. . . PUM?

Person under monitoring.  They are at increased risk for exposure to COVID that might be in the incubation period, and be missed by a test.  They cannot "test out" of precautions the way a PUI can.  Basically this is anyone from a facility known to have COVID cases (nursing home, prison, group home for people with developmental delays) or with a known exposure (like a + household member).

[JKL33]

On 12/27/2020 at 9:27 AM, turtlesRcool said:

Not  necessarily.  Any rule-out unit is going to be mixed.  The PUI patients move to regular floors if they test negative, or the COVID floor if they test positive (space permitting because there's not always room on the appropriate unit).  The PUM patients never go to clean floors (unless, I suppose, they are there long enough to qualify for a quarantine).  Many (hopefully most) of them are negative, but they're still in a unit with COVID+ patients for their stay.  I don't like it, but I also can't think of a better option.

A rule-out unit is not the same exposure risk as a unit where both tested-positives and tested-negatives are together.

As a covid-negative patient, would you rather share a nurse with (or be across the hall from) a patient with known covid, or a patient who has some % chance of turning out to be covid positive?

It's some percent chance vs. 100% chance.