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  1. PPE at COVID-19 drive thru clinic question

    I met criteria and was tested. My question is the nursing staff didn’t use regular disposable gloves. They had on those snug fitting surgical gloves that go nearly half way up your forearm and just cleaned the gloves with hand sanitizer frequently / ...
  2. Exposed to COVID+ no PPE, only surgical mask

    I recently got exposed to a patient who got admitted for a diagnosis not related to COVID, or so we thought. I had a surgical mask and only in the patients room for maybe 30 minutes giving medications. Later on, we found out she was COVID+. The patie...
  3. Check out PPE App

    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 report any breaks in our PPE. It concerns me for se...
  4. I'm curious, with the national PPE shortage, how other hospitals are coping with this? I work in a suburban ED that is part of a larger health system in the Twin Cities MN. Currently we wear surgical masks for all patient care other than COVID pt's, ...
  5. Discussion about use of Valved Masks

    Valved masks work very well at reducing moisture and heat inside the mask and does help to reduce glass fogging. However, they are essentially a 3/4" HOLE where exhalation occurs. This, in effect concentrates the outflow of breath without any filtr...
  6. spotangel

    I Am Not Ready to Die!

    With my minimal PPEs, I was nervous entering the room on my first day on an unfamiliar unit in the hospital. All clinic nurses had been deployed to the hospital. No training, just show up and plugged in where the need was. I told the charge RN that I...
  7. Please forgive the naivete of my question. I am humbly seeking to understand why the majority of those in direct patient care aren't sick with COVID-19 considering inadequate PPE (surgical masks as opposed to N95s or PAPRs, unprecedented reuse of mas...
  8. SansNom

    What happens if we all quit?

    I've heard a lot of complaints about inadequate PPE (with good reason) and a lot of talk about whether or not to quit the job because of the PPE situation. There is no doubt that multiple entities in this country dropped the ball (I'll avoid pointing...
  9. New nurse, asthma, Covid-19, What do I do?

    So, I’ve got a big issue and I don’t really know what to do. I’m 22 years old with asthma and have been working as a CNA for about 2 years. I was working in a nursing home and then COVID patients were being admitted. What made this matter concerning...
  10. PPE Conservation/Clustering care in ED

    Hello- I work as an ED nurse in an inner city trauma center. The PPE situation recently improved (thank God) however our gowns are crap. They suck and rip as you doff. Anyways - does anyone else get extremely frustrated when providers keep piling on...
  11. Like an administrator wearing N95 mask. Not PPE but an UC had a new thing of sanitizing wipes to wipe off her desk. The unit doesn't have that anymore, I'm like where she get that?
  12. Question for my fellow nurses during this scary time.. I work in New York (outside the city) where we're being hit pretty hard. My hospital has over 350 patients with suspected and confirmed covid. I'm ICU trained so they have me floating to any ICU ...
  13. New to the field and feeling guilty

    Hi all, First off, I want to thank everyone on this forum for sharing their experiences. I thought long and hard about posting this because my experience seems trivial, but I wanted to share my thoughts anyway. I’m not a nurse (yet, I just got accep...
  14. I work in the 3M laboratory and wanted to condense and post some resources for all of you. As someone who is pushing paper safe at home (working to get more PPE out the door among other things), I want to thank you and your families for all that you ...
  15. ghillbert

    What happens if you quit?

    Are you allowed to quit during a pandemic/state of emergency? Are there licensure ramifications? If my employer is not able to supply appropriate PPE does that change anything?
  16. Covid LTC question

    I am a ltc alzheimers nurse, 48 residents, 12hr day shift. Husband has severe respiratory issues. Got call that presumed positive covid and that they dont feel it's safe for me to ge there because of hubby and that I should resign? I asked about PPE ...
  17. Brian S.

    Five Months Later, Where is the PPE?

    Earlier this month, The National Nurses United held a day of action to demand that hospitals and elected officials better protect them with Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) and a safe number of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses in sixt...
  18. PLEASE give me a cooling vest, I burn up every night under all this garb. https://nursingnotes.co.uk/news/research/cooling-vests-could-alleviate-heat-strain-caused-by-PPE/
  19. Ethical Dilemma with Vaccine PPE?

    I am currently on a temporary contract vaccinating for a retail pharmacy. It's awesome! Most of the pharmacists and all the contract nurses are awesome! The other's involved in greeting and organizing the butt-load of patients are usually young wi...
  20. PPE Request Form

    Hi there, We have raised some money to buy PPE for healthcare workers in the Northeast who are otherwise not getting adequate protections through their employers. We have some KN95 masks that we can donate if you are in need at your hospital. Here is...
  21. BY DOLORES HUERTA As a registered nurse and executive director of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association, Bonnie Castillo is a visionary and a leader. She was among the first to call attention to the lack of personal prot...
  22. Plus should every hospital worker be tested for Covid-19 every week if more, regardless of symptoms? Oh yeah this is not a homework question. Let me repeat THIS IS NOT A HOMEWORK QUESTION. ?
  23. COVID Faces

    Okay, so this has the potential to sound very strange. I have noticed that at work the past couple months when a co-worker slips their mask down for a moment to take a drink, eat, readjust the mask, etc. That from the nose they just look strange almo...
  24. I am an RN working full time in the ED. Every shift I am subjected to below par PPE standards. Asked to re-use N95 and surgical masks for multiple patients, covid or not. So it was not to my surprise when I got a call informing me a patient I had pro...
  25. For those nurses who are told not to wear PPE (masks) and not to bring private PPE from home: A definitive, must read announcement by The Joint Commission. The Joint Commission is essentially “God” to hospitals. They outrank (IMO) Federal or State ...