Frontline Nurses
What have you learned from the frontlines of fighting the coronavirus that you most want policy makers, health care administrators and your bosses to know? If you were in charge, what is the first thing you would change to ensure we never go through this again?
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Stacy T.
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Ongoing training needed to prepare for this
As I was deployed from my specified unit as a Gyn/Oncology nurse to the ICU was indeed a huge change. I however was eager to go represent and help save as many lives as I can. Learning 80 percent of ICU work within 36 hours was overwhelming, while also facing every covid patient that arrived to the unit with 85 percent chance that the pt will and was intubated was challenging. I think that as a deployed nurse now looking on the sidelines all nurses should be trained basic skills on these critical care units. All nurses should know how…
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Hollye J.
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Mental health supports for frontline nurses
First of all, THANK YOU to those of you who are on the front lines each and every day. Your efforts are heroic in the truest sense of the word.
As this pandemic unfolds, my heart breaks in a million different ways, not the least of which is because I cannot be on the front lines. Thanks to a hefty dose of chemo 9 years ago, I am immunocompromised which precludes me from being anywhere near a health care facility. Not being able to suit up and show up, side-by-side in the trenches is excruciating for me.…
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NO N95 - how can I purchase my own?
We don't have enough N95 masks but are allowed to bring in our own as long as it is NIOSH certified. I can't find a place to purchase a N95 mask. The companies that have stock are only selling directly to institutions. I'm at a loss. Any how I can get aN95 masks?
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Skin breakdown
Any input on skin breakdown prevention on N95? As a skin champion in my unit I plan to use the mepilex dressing, lotion, just to prevent abrasions or breakdown on bridge of the nose. Will it not disrupt the seal of n95?
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Nurse-Led Healing Circles for Self-Healing During Times of Crisis and Beyond
Hi everyone, I'm a holistic nurse practitioner, a health coach and a healing circles facilitator.
I am a member of the American Holistic Nurses Association. The Austin Texas Chapter of AHNA was planning a regional conference in May focusing on self-compassion and self-healing for nurses and one medium for this is healing circles.
This all changed with Covid-19.
In response to hearing the needs from the front-line nurses, my colleagues and I decided to offer healing circles with the intention of self-compassion for self-healing for nurses.
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