Topics About 'Covid 19'.

I have found an open source design for a positive pressure ventilator, that can be built in a home work shop or garage, using readily available components. The link is www.panvent.blogspot.com. There is a video that shows it works. It is a last re...

Looks like as nurses, we will be held to a professional standard, similar to other professionals. "Nurses are urged to recognize that dissemination of misinformation not only jeopardizes the health and well-being of the public but may place thei...

What is your opinion about hydroxychloroquine and the COVID-19? Read in its entirety: WHO Halts Hydroxychloroquine Trial Over Safety Concerns

VACCINATION CARD Hello. -Hi, table for two, please. -Sure, and your name. - Cailyn -Great. And do you and your guest have your vaccination cards? -Hmmm well first..Can you tell us who our server will be? -Um, looks like Brad will be you...

Disclaimer: I know that I can't control what people post on this forum, but I'm asking that we keep the discussion as apolitical and health-centered as possible. I know there are a lot of strong opinions about police brutality, protests, and riots/va...

Great article documenting how Covid-19 spread in my area---- this is what I recall from TV news reports, local Philly papers, Montgomery County Health department briefings. Cardiologist> patients > patients family member > grandparent- empl...

Denmark becomes first EU country to lift all Covid-19 restrictions

That the reason why COVID got into the nursing home is because staff brought it in while coming into work. It did not come from patients bringing it to the nursing homes. I assume that the patients coming in to the nursing home were new admits, ...

Blindly accepting job offer? I have a med-surg job offer at a large hospital in the metropolitan area. I am an LPN and acute care is extremely tough to get- I've been looking for a full-time for over a year. Due to COVID-19 I only had a telephone int...

I think that the market may create good paying work for unvaccinated nurses. There are areas in this country with low vaccination rates resulting in high Covid hospitalization rates. Couple that with increasing frustration and compassion fatig...

One fact that stands out about this novel coronavirus is how little we really know even after we hit new daily world highs of cases. Currently, over 2 million cases exist and deaths stand at almost 150,000 worldwide. After a smoldering start in China...

Hi, I just wanted to check in with everyone. How has working for covid been this year compared to last year? Do you feel more comfortable now that vaccines are out? How does working through this surge compare to the surge we had earlier this ye...

Hi, Just curious how many people have been contacted by their hospital about extensive budget issues as a result of COVID. Johns Hopkins in Baltimore ("2nd Best Hospital in the Country") sent out lengthy email to employees explaining all the ways the...

At our home we currently have 0 COVID cases. But back last Spring, we had lots of cases among staff and residents, lots were dying on oxygen, hypodermoclysis, staffing shortages pretty much a headache all around. I remember working mostly doubles and...

Hey all, hope you are all staying safe during this insanity. I was wondering if anybody has started to see crisis/high rate jobs posted yet? If so, post the specialty and company.

They sat huddled outside the room, three chairs facing the glass doors, an isolation cart as a makeshift table for the boxes of tissues. We had turned his head to face the door side of the room before the scheduled two hour head turn, so they wouldn'...

My brother had a wedding planned for august. covid is just now spiking where I live, I work in critical care, and have been taking every precaution to keep myself, my wife, and our two young children safe. We are ‘healthy’ and in our 30s but my wif...

Night shift staged a sit-in in the break room -did not accept assignment due to having SEVEN RN's to cover 100+ ED patients. Multiple patients on ventilators due to COVID-19. Usual staffing would have been 21 nurses to provide care for that many ...

My Dream Job as a New ICU NurseI have always known that I was meant to be an ICU nurse. Call it intuition, divine planning, or blind ambition. Since I was a child, my dream was to heal the sick, to protect those too weak to protect themselves, and to...

Just wondering if any other hospitals use or are transitioning to team nursing? Our covid numbers are through the roof and we have expanded making more beds in our hospital. We have a staffing crisis now where we just don’t have enough nurses. ...

I'm a PRN RN and haven't worked in over two months d/t COVID. My supervisor has informed me I can sign up for some shifts since things are slowly picking up. I would have to wear a mask for my entire 12-hour shift. No idea how long my hospital will r...

Apparently per the EEOC's guidelines employers (not just healthcare related) can mandate vaccination of workers. The exception is a "sincerely held religious belief" or a covered disability. Just found out this morning that a chain of for profit LTC/...

Check this out: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8235127/Defiant-healthcare-workers-clash-anti-lockdown-protesters-Colorado.html I'm actually broadly sympathetic to the protesters. When you have 22 million Americans unemployed, massive lines ...

Steven Arthur LaTulippe spread COVID-19 dis-information. Is this good for the healthcare industry? Read in its entirety: Doctor Who Claimed Masks Hurt Health Loses License

The Coronavirus/COVID-19 has been all over the news since its appearance in Wuhan, China in December. Eleven cities in China have been locked down and travel restrictions imposed on tens of millions of people in an attempt to contain the spread of t...