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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Responses
Tammy Bagley , RN ED , ICU , Patient Safety
1.- We must take what we have learned and use it - really evaluate it , listen to frontline and compile the common themes .
2. Take those themes and start the change needed . The theory that a Hospital will always be able to provide any care needed has been challenged and our Vulnerability was made apparent. Hospitals cannot ALWAYS provide everything needed in a community .
3. We must consider the emotional and spiritual side of any pandemic or disaster - while taking away all support from family at a time when a person is…
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Field Hospitals
We need detailed, and rehearsed, plans for the rapid set up of field hospitals in every community in case hospitals overflow. Actually set them up whenever it looks like there might not be enough beds within a month.
We need to make moving to a field hospital for post-ICU Covid recovery mandatory now. Doctors and nurses need to be in charge of triage, not patients.
Every community needs a place or places for new Covid patients to go when they can't manage their care at home during the first few days of infection, but…
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Re-Opening in Wyoming
I'm a public health trained school nurse who practices health education, prevention and promotion. Even with imperfect knowledge and fully understanding that science is inherently self-correcting, it is my obligation to know most everything about this unusual disease of COVID-19 as I would hand, foot and mouth, strep throat, diabetes, etc. I am a small part of an entire team of caring, dedicated professionals whose business it is to keep school children healthy and safe and learning every day.
It is undisputed this virus is extraordinary in its capability to transmit explosively. The case count went…
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No preparation
We was never prepared, in spite of preparing. We need to always be sure from this year on that we realize what can happen in these pandemics and not be so lax to think it won't happen here (USA). So much I can say, it all boils to ill preparation. Lack of ability to test initially.. no PPE, no guidelines... Daily, sometimes hourly changes- no clear guidance..
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RN, BSN, CEN
What I've found the most striking in what I've learned is that there are political motivations. The number of patients that I don't see, the lack of actually critically ill due to covid doesn't match the hype. I have been somewhat confused and silenced when asking what this means?
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