Do hospitals allow nurses to wear their own respirators of choice to prevent from getting COVID? Can nurses purchase any respirator and wear it at work at any hospital, or are there certain respirators that you cannot wear at work?
Basically, I would like to know if nurses are restricted to the PPE they can wear at work in any way, or if they are free to purchase any outside PPE to wear at work in hospitals.
I think nursing may indeed be a poor fit for you, OP.
Don't listen to these kinds of people.
There's always someone out there who pop their head in and instead of giving any advice will just tell you to quit and give up on the nursing or medical field. Honestly, this needs to stop, you're (SmilingBluEyes) not helping, we need all the help in the Healthcare Field we can get especially at the CNA level.
I'm glad I came across this thread as I was wondering the same thing about wearing a respirator to work and I am a CNA aiming to get my ADRN then BSRN.
Ultimately you, OP, have to discuss this with your managers or even go above their rank to their managers or even higher if you can't get any results.
If you are tested weekly for COVID19 and found negative they shouldn't have any problem with you wearing your own half face respirator that doesn't filter exhalation as long as it is a verifiable approved model with approved filters.
However you never know until you speak up at work to your managers and sometimes you have to go to their managers until you get a result.
FlameHeart, CNA
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Don't listen to these kinds of people.
There's always someone out there who pop their head in and instead of giving any advice will just tell you to quit and give up on the nursing or medical field. Honestly, this needs to stop, you're (SmilingBluEyes) not helping, we need all the help in the Healthcare Field we can get especially at the CNA level.
I'm glad I came across this thread as I was wondering the same thing about wearing a respirator to work and I am a CNA aiming to get my ADRN then BSRN.
Ultimately you, OP, have to discuss this with your managers or even go above their rank to their managers or even higher if you can't get any results.
If you are tested weekly for COVID19 and found negative they shouldn't have any problem with you wearing your own half face respirator that doesn't filter exhalation as long as it is a verifiable approved model with approved filters.
However you never know until you speak up at work to your managers and sometimes you have to go to their managers until you get a result.