MeganMN

MeganMN

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  1. New PPE Recommendations

    MeganMN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Our policy just recently changed for our PPE: "N95’s mask ONLY required for confirmed COVID-19 patients (not suspect). An N95 will remain in effect for ANY person regardless of COVID-19...

  2. New PPE Recommendations

    MeganMN replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We have plenty of

  3. New PPE Recommendations

    MeganMN replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    @MunoRN Thanks so much! I sent this info on to Infection Control. It just seems weird to me. She said that our facility is really only wearing N95 masks because we have enough supply, but...

  4. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MeganMN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I hear what you are saying, but I get the sense that you are not necessarily applying this rationale to people who have been hesitant to be vaccinated. I feel that this and other discussions should...

  5. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MeganMN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    @GrumpyRN and others. I apologize for letting my emotions get the better of me. I participated in what I was accusing others of doing. Apology offered. I guess I just feel tired and weary from...

  6. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MeganMN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    this is actually not a factual statement. They are described as 'experimental' because They were passed under Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA, and while studies have been completed , they are...

  7. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    MeganMN replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Our hospital puts a tag on our badges to show compliance with the flu vaccine, and they are also giving people a red tag for the Covid vaccine, so it is quite obvious who has and has not been...

  8. Covid Vaccine

    MeganMN replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have read and read this forum throughout this pandemic. I identified with many posts, learned from others, and have been deeply offended by some as well. I hesitated even posting in this topic...

  9. Yes, Employer Can Require Covid Vaccine

    MeganMN replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I thought that it could not currently be mandated because of the Emergency Use Authorization. My understanding was that it couldn't be mandated until it was no longer under EUA. I might be wrong,...

  10. Check out PPE App

    MeganMN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Our facility recently switched to an App that we log into every work day. We use it to self report any potential exposure of Covid symptoms, and we also use it to check out at the end of the day and...

  11. Staffing On Covid Unit

    MeganMN replied to RNKPCE's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Rural Minnesota! We had a surge a few weeks ago and I keep waiting for it to hit again but it has not. Now we are just

  12. Staffing On Covid Unit

    MeganMN replied to RNKPCE's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am in a small critical access hospital. we had a few weeks of awfullness, but right now things are okay. We have a small ICU where each nurse has up to 2 patients. They Med/Surg nurses have up to...

  13. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    MeganMN replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    One of the nursing homes in my little town had 62 residents and 23 of them have died of Vivid with one nurse death. Makes me

  14. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    MeganMN replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://www.kare11.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/live-updates-covid-19-cases-in-minnesota/89-8c08e7e3-87d9-4399-bc5e-e1a09f0ea2c8 "ICU use nearing capacity in Minnesota" The...

  15. Surgical Mask Direction

    MeganMN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    The Infection Control Nurse authorized a staff member at our facility to wear the surgical mask with the blue facing in and the white facing out because she was reacting negatively to the 'fibers'....

  16. Healthcare Fatalities

    MeganMN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    This makes me sad to read, but happy that they are posting it. Lost on the

  17. Healthcare Fatalities

    MeganMN replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It is actually close to about 940 deaths, they have just only listed photos and stories for the 153. To m e, that number is inexcusable because many of them were from a lack of proper gear I MHO....

  18. Mandatory Influenza Vaccination

    MeganMN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Do you think that the push for the Influenza vaccine in lieu of the Covid pandemic is going to result in hospitals mandating influenza vaccines? do you think it is a segway to mandating the Covid...

  19. You know you're a Covid nurse when:

    MeganMN replied to Schweet's topic in Disaster Preparation

    When your kid sends you to work with their favorite squirt gun so you can function as an effective storm trooper and zap the

  20. LPN License Rejected Due to Failure to Disclose Criminal Arrest

    MeganMN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Ugh. this makes my stomach hurt. I had a dismissed charge on my record and never knew I had to go through a completely separate process to have it actually expunged from my record. It followed me in...

  21. How do you deal with the skin breakouts from wearing a mask for so long every day?

    MeganMN replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    On the same topic, I keep having the corners of my mouth crack and bleed from the moisture of wearing a surgical mask for 12 hours. I have tried coconut oil/tea tree oil, but it just barely heals...

  22. How Does This End?

    MeganMN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    We Watched and Planned ...My husband and I began watching the Covid-19 numbers in early January. I remember sitting in our living room during a typically dark, cold Minnesota Winter day and discussing...

  23. Workplace Safety and PPE

    MeganMN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    The CDC current recommendations for mask use/re-use: -Discard N95 respirators following use during aerosol generating procedures. -Discard N95 respirators contaminated with blood, respiratory or nasal...

  24. Workplace Safety and PPE

    MeganMN replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    @Kevin UPP this......

  25. Workplace Safety and PPE

    MeganMN replied to MeganMN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    @Kevin UPP I have no idea why. We just got a huge shipment of new 3M masks and got re-fit tested. they still want us to follow the same re-use policy and have no maximum number of uses. It makes no...