Did you contract anything from a patient?

[RNrhythm]

Silly question but I am just curious. I have never directly seen or heard of any healthcare workers I know contracting anything from a patient at work, and I am in frequent contact and air borne isolation. Obviously it happens, like the ebola RN I remember reading about, but have you ever seen anything in your facility?

[Accolay]

Speaking of contracting things- I just came across this:

For the next time you have ebola...

Quantum Ems Isolation/Containment Chamber, 8

[Cat365]

Our rooms are all private, so they don't get special treatment -- just staff that hates going into their room dressed in garbage bags!

We had private rooms too. I always thought that some people thought it made them special. Like I'm sicker than you are.

[KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN]

Just today. RSV pneumonia and waiting for legionella and bunch of other stuff No idea where else I could get it except from ER.

[Dances with wool]

I got C-Diff. I was always careful to wear PPE and wash my hands, but I probably incubated C-Diff. So many are not diagnosed right away and as we know alcohol based sanitizer doesn't do the trick. I have MS and my immune system was suppressed from medications. I was off work for 6 weeks. Absolutely miserable.

[cmilly4]

A co-worker got c-dif, and another has had meningitis 3 times (although catching it so many times sounds rare). A former respiratory therapists told me he had positive TB tests that he likely caught from a patient. For the most part I feel safe and like I have a strong immune system. But I have admitted patients with all 3 of the above conditions before they got put on precautions. Just wash your hands often and wear gloves. Stay out of their face especially if they are coughing. Most people I know have never caught anything from their patients including me.

[The_nerve]

My mother contracted Hep C from a needlestick from a dialysis patient and has a converted PPD. I just got over a likely case of pertussis contracted from who knows where?? We had no cases of pertussis on my unit... I worked with TB, HIV, and leprosy patients over the summer in East Africa and didn't end up with anything, even without any PPE since that's just not a thing there.