Doctors not assessing COVID patients?

[orchidflower]

Doctors at my hospital are not physically assessing the COVID patients. They are asking nurses to enter the room and ask them what they have assessed. I am working at a teaching hospital. We were told residents weren't allowed to enter the patients rooms and just attendings and fellows. Well, no physicians are entering the patients rooms. It's so bad, we had a patient code and the physician asked the respiratory therapist to assess the patient from outside the room to confirm death. Is this happening at any of your hospitals? I feel as if the doctors feel as if we "nurses" are expendable and they aren't.

[Ele_123]

Hospitalist where I work still see patients daily most of the time. I've seen a couple exceptions, but its usually patients waiting for placement or a specialist to clear them. Consults/Specialists however are different & its a total mix of in-person, PA, telephone, or Zoom. Housekeeping only comes if a patient's discharged.