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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No N95 at Kaiser
I work at Kaiser Santa Clara, Stroke Tele and we are not being given N95. We bring our own. The ANM said we are suppose to wear surgical mask, gown and gloves per CDC guidelines. I reported this to our union and OSHA but no response yet. I dont know what to do next. I feel like Im committing suicide everytime I enter a COVID patient’s room. We need help.
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RN ICU
The trail of the N95 mask is potentially as follows: Given to ICU RN by the hospital. The RN in the ICU uses the same N95 mask on two different patients, keeping it in an envelope on the desk outside the patient's room. So it is never discarded, simply removed and put on multiple times in a shift and used in two different patient rooms. The nurse then takes the mask home in the same envelope and spreads it the community. The nurse then brings the same N95 back to the facility for another 3 shifts because x1 N95 mask…
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Anxiety
I work in a 16 beds ICU but since the COVID pandemic, we have added the step down unit as part of our COVID -ICU. It has been such a traumatic experience, caring for young and old population with or without medical co-morbidity.
So far our facility has been very good in providing PPEs, we also use PAPRs as well.
Anytime, i work into the unit to care for the COVID pts, i get this overwhelming anxiety anyways i pray to God each morning for protection.
Pls be safe everyone, we are truly heroes!!!!
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RN ICU
I work the Covid 19 floor in the ICU, along with other ICU nurses, and the biggest challenge is the lack of N95 masks and hospitals not allowing nurses to use PAPR masks for patients with secretions and also the risk nurses are in, with the use of aerosols and nebulizers and high Flo oxygen, which spreads droplet infection. A lot of ventilators in the USA also have external humidifiers versus built in humidifiers which you get in Europe and other countries. We need to urge hospitals to get sterilization machines for the N95 masks because masks are designed to…
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I couldn’t agree more
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