GSDlvrRN

Someone I work with said this back in March. He was a non-believer. Now his father is my patient. ??‍♀️

What is the issue? Mandatory what? I think you made a typo.

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....

The doctors I work with have no shortage of PPE. They call the patient’s room phone and talk to them that way, they can also see the patient through the window next to the door. I have seen doctors go in for an initial assessment like if they are new from the ED, but not usually for daily rounding.

I took care of a patient for three days in a telemetry setting. He was hospitalized about 7 days after symptom onset. He was started on oral hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin the day his test came back positive on day 3 of hospitalization. CRP was over 600 and lactate dehydrogenase was over 300. He was on 2 L oxygen via nasal cannula and chest X-ray looked horrible. But he was still wallow talkie. I continued administering the two medications the next two days as ordered. On day five of hospitalization CRP, and LDH were rechecked as well as chest X-ray. CRP was about 300 and LDH around 150, now on room air and chest X-ray stayed the same. I have had the last two days off and wonder what happened to him. The pulm told the attending and I cytokine release and respiratory collapse could be expected on day five which was the last day I had him. Maybe he was a lucky one!

It is required to be cleared by HR at my hospital if you want refuse care to these patients. I have a coworker who was cleared because her son is immunocompromised, she is not, yet she never had a problem caring for patients with the flu or CDiff of any other infections. Yet I suppose healthcare facilities are afraid of repercussions and more nurses are quitting if they don’t honor nurses requests based on their fears.

That would be about 90% of my coworkers right now. Thank you for your words. Thank you for this

I’m so jealous, this is the most epic time to retire! Out with a bang!

This is infuriating!! #prioritiesonpoint

I need several of my coworkers to see this.

Thank you! This has been so interesting to see the world come together, we really are all in this together.

Yes! Some of the “special circumstances” I am hearing of include having children, having a family (Don’t we all?) having diabetes, having asthma, their age, or being scared. My facility is requiring people to be cleared by HR to allow them to not come to work or not be floated to the respiratory care unit ( our r/o COVID unit, or positive for COVID unit). Individuals have been cleared for not passing the fit test for any style N95 (and there are no more PAPRs), or having a condition that compromises the immune system.

Hello, I need to tell my experience with COVID 19 and infertility. I am a tele nurse, and I work on a tele floor. Our sixth floor has been converted to our respiratory care unit where all patients who are out if they are “ rule out COVID “ or positive for COVID already. Most of those patients are on telemetry so telemetry nurses are floated up there. I was floated because a nurse found out her patient was positive and, at 10 o’clock, she told my charge her son is immunocompromised and she could not continue the shift up there. I left my patients on the tele floor and we swapped groups. I returned to the sixth floor for two more days because I had genuine desire to work with coronavirus patients and to help. It was also nice to keep my same group of patients for three days. Several comments have been made to me regarding the fact that I CHOSE to work there. The comments were regarding my childlessness and the fact that it is better for me to work up there because I don’t have children. Add to this the fact my husband and I have infertility issues and the comments just magnify my hurt. And I’m fragile and emotional like everyone else right now! I have gone home crying and completely broken. This crisis is bringing out very cruel behavior in my coworkers and I don’t deserve this. My working with COVID patients has nothing to do with the fact that I don’t have kids to come home to and “ infect”. Comments have also been made to me that I’m “ young” and I “ will survive”. And my age has nothing to do with the fact that I had desire to work with COVID patients. People have also told me I shouldn’t come to the fourth floor to get anything from my locker and they have come up to me to check my temp and told me I need to demand to be tested for coronavirus. I have worn the proper PPE every time dealing with patients with COVID or suspected to have COVID and my employer has never put me in a position to knowingly be exposed to the virus. I feel like I did the wrong thing by volunteering to float, and how dare I give my coworkers power to make me feel like that. I feel like the world is on my shoulders and my coworkers are not behind me. We are all so broken exhausted and this adds to it, and I am so ashamed of them. Seriously, what the h*** guys?

Thank you! I actually followed up with the crisis nurse regarding the situation. He basically told me he wanted me to tell him more of what I was thinking so he could better assist me.

It doesn’t and I never said the way he acted was justified. I said I understood why he was mad.