What are you stocking up on?

Not the SN here, but I do follow y'all as I so respect & admire you for your dedication to your jobs. Something I read a few months back here prompts me to respond for your benefit. At the very beginning of C19, one SN here walked in her office and found all her masks and/or sanitizers were GONE!!

Please be SUPER aware of the possiblility of THEFT! Even if you believe that limiting office access and locked storage with limited key possession will work --- don't hold your breath! And sad to say, I doubt that even the previously most trusted personnel/staff can be above cautious suspicion.

Much of your supplies are high value. So whether for a thief's OWN personal needs/use or for someone else to figure out how to make a quick buck (at your expense), your supplies might very well DISAPPEAR.

Please consider this as you make your plans for your re-openings.

I speak from experience as the Inf Cont/Emp Health nurse. Ever so S-L-O-W-L-Y my Hepatitis B vax (and a few tetorifice inj) were slowly being stolen before I caught on. It happens when least expected!

Xanax

Vodka, and not for its disinfectant properties :)

On 8/8/2020 at 11:25 PM, amoLucia said:

Not the SN here, but I do follow y'all as I so respect & admire you for your dedication to your jobs. Something I read a few months back here prompts me to respond for your benefit. At the very beginning of C19, one SN here walked in her office and found all her masks and/or sanitizers were GONE!!

Please be SUPER aware of the possiblility of THEFT! Even if you believe that limiting office access and locked storage with limited key possession will work --- don't hold your breath! And sad to say, I doubt that even the previously most trusted personnel/staff can be above cautious suspicion.

Much of your supplies are high value. So whether for a thief's OWN personal needs/use or for someone else to figure out how to make a quick buck (at your expense), your supplies might very well DISAPPEAR.

Please consider this as you make your plans for your re-openings.

I speak from experience as the Inf Cont/Emp Health nurse. Ever so S-L-O-W-L-Y my Hepatitis B vax (and a few tetorifice inj) were slowly being stolen before I caught on. It happens when least expected!

TRUTH. I have created a PPE closet for school after working with facilities on finding a room that locks. They are making keys for me now.

On 8/8/2020 at 10:25 PM, amoLucia said:

Please be SUPER aware of the possiblility of THEFT!

YUP! At the end of February I had 2 N95 masks (one for me and one for my assistant)
The next week our director asked for a supply count in the clinic and my masks were GONE.

Someone did steal them and the most likely person (easiest access and knowledge of supplies in the clinic) was the custodian. But could I prove it? no

Like my Hep B vax. They were kept in a refrig in locked med room (behind the nsg desk) on one of the NH nsg units. Only nurses could access with the med room key - and the housekeeping staff, maint and the Admin with their master keys.

Couldn't prove anything.