How to handle covid exposures from other staff

[11blade, RN]

On 12/12/2020 at 7:57 PM, Sour Lemon said:

Honestly, you sound super-paranoid. Just use good hygiene measures, like you would to avoid catching or transmitting any other virus. There's nothing magical about the way this one is handed off.

So the virus is AIRBORNE, and, the original poster points out the RT spends 'all day' in one room where people are eating and drinking WITHOUT HER MASK ON. That is NOT paranoid, that is a break in technique that management needs to address. The RT has the HIGHEST risk of catching COVID from the activities she is involved with. Planting her in the break room (confined space with LESS AIR EXCHANGES than other spaces) is a recipe to take out the whole unit's staff.

[DesiDani]

Doesn't RT mean respiratory therapist? If so how does she manage to spend all her time in one room at all? RTs are so short staffed they sometimes have to do 3 to 4 units each. Sometimes we only have 3 or 4 in the entire hospital during one shift.  If she just sits around during COVID, she definitely sat around before COVID. Now people are noticing it.

Doesn't she have breathing treatments and charting to do? We have keypad locks on our breakroom doors

[LibraNurse27, BSN, RN]

3 hours ago, DesiDani said:

Doesn't RT mean respiratory therapist? If so how does she manage to spend all her time in one room at all? RTs are so short staffed they sometimes have to do 3 to 4 units each. Sometimes we only have 3 or 4 in the entire hospital during one shift.  If she just sits around during COVID, she definitely sat around before COVID. Now people are noticing it.

Doesn't she have breathing treatments and charting to do? We have keypad locks on our breakroom doors

We are definitely busy and short staffed on RTs! After she gave people covid it came to her manager's attention that she was spending so much time in the break room, and now she's working a bit harder LOL