Covid Patients General Population or Cohort

[Nurseonc]

Our hospital has had Covid patients on cohorted units throughout the pandemic, as cases decline they are now moving them out amongst the general patient population. 

What is the policy at your facility?

Have you seen spread on units where Covid patients are mixed with the general patient population?

Any advice?

[toomuchbaloney]

How do hospitals generally manage patients with contagious vaccine preventable diseases? Why should that be different for covid?

[Nurseonc]

Agree that some of it is just unfamiliarity but at least in our facility the precautions, don/doffing are more time consuming for Covid patients. The Covid cohorted units had staffing grids with lower ratios and a resource nurse to help. Our grids don't account for that and we are often short on top of that. 

 

There have also been two outbreaks on non-covid floors of staff and patients. I've never heard of a tuberculosis or flu outbreak, so that's why I'm asking. We also treat diseases spread via aerosol differently in the hospital with the exception of Covid that is still treated as droplet spread (no negative pressure room required). 

 

 

[GrumpyRN, NP]

On 6/24/2021 at 11:34 AM, Nurseonc said:

as cases decline they are now moving them out amongst the general patient population.

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have read. Mixing infected patients with non-infected patients. Who taught management their infection control, Typhoid Mary?

What part of the infection has escaped these morons over the past 16 months. If a patient catches Covid while in your hospital can they then sue for catching a preventable disease due to lack of care?

Never mind, as the Delta variant is very transmissible you will soon see an upsurge in cases. 

[toomuchbaloney]

2 hours ago, GrumpyRN said:

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have read. Mixing infected patients with non-infected patients. Who taught management their infection control, Typhoid Mary?

What part of the infection has escaped these morons over the past 16 months. If a patient catches Covid while in your hospital can they then sue for catching a preventable disease due to lack of care?

Never mind, as the Delta variant is very transmissible you will soon see an upsurge in cases. 

Maybe that infection control team was educated at Trump University...

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

Since the delta variant is becoming the dominant strain and is spreading the fastest in the US areas that don’t “believe in” vaccination (as if it were a religious belief), in the reddest states, in the areas most likely to believe that the election was “stolen,” and resulting in increasing cases, deaths, and pressures on hospitals, well, the Venn diagram makes it pretty clear that they will either get the message about vaccines, or fall victims to another anti-fundies belief: Darwinism.