AvaVermillion

Last week we went out to the community again, and I was really concerned for my friend and the family she was going to assess. She just got sick after the last visit and we can't miss a single day of duty of she'll be forced to make up for it during summer classes. And that's a no go since there's a lot to do during that time. We asked the professors if she can wear a mask the whole day since we'll be going to the health care center and the community. Here's exactly what she said, "You can wear it in the health care center but not in the community in order to avoid getting the wrong idea with the locals." In my mind I was just like 'Are you serious? We're trying to help them improve their health not make it worse by sending a sick person out there.' The whole point of using asepsis techniques is to protect both the patient and ourselves. And when it came to injecting multiple pregnant women, I asked if I can wear gloves my clinical instructor flat out told me not to and that it will make the client insecure. When I told her that it was my parents that strictly advised me to (mostly my dad since he told me he it's worse around them and that I should just wear them as a precaution). Now I didn't mention this in my last article because I was literally ranting about how my college is, but I'm really concerned and I think I should have expressed it a little bit more maturely. But I'm just really concerned for the students after a 4th year student contracted HIV and can't be accepted into any hospitals in the US now when he graduated. All because he was told not to wear any protection when injecting. Sanitazing hands between patients is okay, but does that also got for when your handling an HIV patient? Now I don't know if other Philippine colleges are the same, but I was just so shocked that I had to say something. This is a very concerning matter and I just don't know how to address this.