Nursing check-in: How are your numbers???

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  1. So we are hearing about surges and frankly this forum is likely the most reliable source of real information that could tell me what I want to know.   We've heard the numbers are doubling in certain areas and that we should be concerned.  We've also heard that it's just from increased testing.  So I want to know:  how are your numbers???  How are your ICUs and covid units?   I'll start by saying that at my facility in RI we are back to some semblance of normalcy.  We were definitely full-up and almost at the panic point for intensive care staffing but thankfully never overflowed capacity. How are things where you are?

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      Very few Covid19 cases
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      Busy with Covid patients
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      Getting worried-we're filling up
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      Overwhelmed

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Specializes in Geriatric, Acute, Rehab.

Travelers are staying away from now.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

CA- Overwhelmed . 63 in-house right now. Let’s just say we ran out of body bags two days ago, my patient got the last high flow oxygen unit yesterday, ran out of pulse ox finger probes today, 74 staff are quarantined and positive for COVID, 104 staff quarantined for exposure at work....

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18 minutes ago, GSDlvrRN said:

CA- Overwhelmed . 63 in-house right now. Let’s just say we ran out of body bags two days ago, my patient got the last high flow oxygen unit yesterday, ran out of pulse ox finger probes today, 74 staff are quarantined and positive for COVID, 104 staff quarantined for exposure at work....

I'm so sorry ?

I have been a wreck lately. Tonight I had paramedics at my house I couldn't breath and I refuse to die of Covid 19! They said : take your anti anxiety meds. .

I did.

I am still scared ?

on edit I feeling better o2 in upper 90s

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

180+ inpatient. Interestingly we have some patients who have been with us long enough that they no longer test positive for COVID and thus no longer "count" toward our Covid numbers....but are still in critical condition on a vent.

I have quit social media other than Allnurses and Instagram a couple times a week. I can't keep looking at it all the time. It's literally starting to impact my every day frame of mind.

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Specializes in Health insurance nursing/ Cardiac nursing.
28 minutes ago, Nurse SMS said:

180+ inpatient. Interestingly we have some patients who have been with us long enough that they no longer test positive for COVID and thus no longer "count" toward our Covid numbers....but are still in critical condition on a vent.

I have quit social media other than Allnurses and Instagram a couple times a week. I can't keep looking at it all the time. It's literally starting to impact my every day frame of mind.

What state are you in?

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Specializes in Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice.

My unusual situation is that I am working in a state psych hospital that has had an outbreak of covid that peaked in April. Our geriatric unit was hit hard and 6 out of 27 long term patients died.

We have lots of positives in the rest of the hospital and these patients are kept separate from the other patients, but most of them are not very sick.

I am working temporarily to assist with the problem. They call us the COVID nurses.

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

Still no active cases but many persons under investigation admitted. We test them and keep them in semi-isolation (Actual isolation is next to impossible in acute psych) and send them out when stable.

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Specializes in CWON.

Are there still hot spots out there?? I feel (knock on wood) lucky that we just aren't seeing it anymore.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

Northwestern Minnesota, very lightly affected for months but now we are seeing an uptick in numbers. Not a lot of cases, but we had reported cases by county at zero to low single digits for quite awhile and now we are getting much higher numbers.

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