You know you are a Covid nurse when:Your "coworker" is not above wearing disposable underwear under a makeshift pillowcase hair cover when they forget their surgical cap and the unit is out of disposal hair covers š¤£Need some humor in this mess. Edited Aug 9, 2020 by Schweet 9 Likes
Schweet Specializes in Tele RN on the West Coast. Has 11 years experience. Aug 9, 2020 Anytime you take off your mask in the break room to eat you think, I wonder how much Covid is actually in here...dun dun duhn. But you continue to eat anyway. 4 Likes
Schweet Specializes in Tele RN on the West Coast. Has 11 years experience. Aug 9, 2020 Early Covid, Management says: No masks on the floor out of patients rooms, especially not your own masks from home.During Covid: Masks mandatory everywhere, and by the way, we don't actually have enough, so...if you could just bring yours from home...yah, that would be great. 5 Likes
NurseBlaq Aug 9, 2020 This thread needs @Davey Do because I'm screaming trying to picture the makeshift underwear under the pillowcase. š 5 Likes
Davey Do Specializes in around 25 years psych, 10 years medical. Has 42 years experience. Aug 11, 2020 On 8/9/2020 at 9:12 AM, Schweet said:Your "coworker" is not above wearing disposable underwear under a makeshift pillowcase hair cover when they forget their surgical cap and the unit is out of disposal hair covers.On 8/9/2020 at 11:56 AM, NurseBlaq said:This thread needs @Davey Do because I'm screaming trying to picture the makeshift underwear under the pillowcase.Yeah, NurseBlaq- I'm having difficulty visualizing the disposable underwear under the pillowcase, when it seems to be more of a prudent move to wear the the disposable underwear over the pillowcase due to the elasticity. 9 Likes
MeganMN Specializes in Emergency Room. Has 15 years experience. Aug 14, 2020 When your kid sends you to work with their favorite squirt gun so you can function as an effective storm trooper and zap the germs.... 3 Likes
caugoesmoo, RN Aug 14, 2020 When you're on paid leave for 2 weeks of isolation/quarantine and your family/community keeps trying to send you food/gifts to help ease the suffering of their 'hero', but you're actually just chilling in your PJs using your shirt as a plate/napkin for your freezer full of microwave pizza and learning all the TikTok dances 2 Likes
emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B Specializes in Emergency. Has 21 years experience. Aug 16, 2020 You sit down in breakroom & start to eat forgetting youāre wearing a mask. Again. 4 Likes
Schweet Specializes in Tele RN on the West Coast. Has 11 years experience. Aug 17, 2020 TuesdayOn 8/11/2020 at 6:25 AM, Davey Do said: Yeah, NurseBlaq- I'm having difficulty visualizing the disposable underwear under the pillowcase, when it seems to be more of a prudent move to wear the the disposable underwear over the pillowcase due to the elasticity.I love it! And it does make more sense.For a visual, it was very nun looking. š 2 Likes
