Topics About 'Quarantine'.

What are some of your thoughts on state mandates restricting travel to and from other states or requiring a quarantine. I think states do have the right to govern their states as they deem to be the best for the state. I want to think it is abou...

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 ...

ABC News 8/12 Over 1,000 students under quarantine in Georgia school district

Is anyone recommending a voluntary post-Thanksgiving break quarantine for families that have traveled for the holiday? We are in FL, so we are already in a state that is seeing a spike. We are in-person full-time with about 50% of our students- aro...

Hi everybody, I'm new to allnurses. I'm hoping to get some advice from this. I was an LVN for the past 10 years, working through the H1N1 outbreak, and the Ebola outbreak. I can say I've seen my share of scares. I recently got accepted as a New Grad ...

COVID-19: The Battle Begins It started with an excruciating headache like I hadn't experienced in years. The pain just wouldn't go away, so I called in sick. I had no choice but to call in sick due to the pain. As a Registered Nurse, I wor...

Hi everyone, LPN in Texas Currently working in a LCF. My current county has recently started having COVID cases pop up. As a result my employer has begun notifying staff to bring extra clothes to work as they will be forcing all nursing staff to quar...

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...

The other day my wife and I went to our local mom and pop pharmacy and got tested. The pharmacy came to our vehicle and we both swabbed. My wife, who is an X-ray tech, swabbed her nose quickly before I could watch her do it. She is a scaredy-cat whe...

Read article in its entirety: Coronavirus Live Updates: Fauci Warns U.S. Could Hit 100,000 Daily Cases, and Officials Fight Vaccine Skepticism

Due to Covid 19, many LTCF are placing their residents into social distancing with no visitors allowed. We are a wonderful large gated facility with great staffing and wonderful residents. We have no positive cases. We have independent living, ...

I am tired of being the "bad guy" and I just want to keep our kids safe! Are the rest of you getting negative feedback from parents when you have to call to tell them their child needs to quarantine due to being a close contact of a positive student...

Help! I am having a mental block for some reason. Onset of symptoms 1/11. Do I start counting day one on 1/12 or do I start on 1/11? I have been doing this for MONTHS but all of a sudden I am blanking out!

I can’t figure out how to change my handle, but I’ve now been a nurse for 4 years, and I’m the ED for 2. I of course see positive COVID patients, but I always wear the proper PPE, don and doffing appropriately, change out of my scrubs at work, and sh...

This is what happens when nurses start standing up for themselves! Let's hope this spreads throughout our nursing community across the US. We deserve to be treated better. News article in its entirety: At Lewiston hospital, quarantined staff must u...

The pandemic was the first time I questioned if I could do this. I spent days upon days crying, not sleeping, struggling to keep myself together. It changed my nursing brain forever. We are trained to save lives, and while loss is inevitable, not to ...

Secret Service testing for COVID-19 changed post Tulsa rally CNN 6/24/20 Dozens of Secret Service agents will be quarantined after Trump's Tulsa rally https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/secret-service-trump-rally-quarantine-coronavirus/index.h...