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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Hospice team making an impact in an Acute Care hospital
We are an inpatient hospice located in northern New Jersey and our highly trained staff provides care for patients at end of life. When the Covid crisis began we worried about the health and well-being of our staff and residents. All of our nurses were deployed to assist in care for patients at the hospital . Our team was stressed but we all showed up. The nurses, home health aids, and team members worked MedSurg units, quickly getting up to speed on the procedures at the hospital and patient care protocols. The hospice team wanted to make a meaningful impact.…
Read the Full ResponseWalk in our shoes
I appreciate that many people including our hospital administrators are terrified of contracting Covid, but all of them need to walk at least a few hours in our daily lives.
Perhaps they would see the awfulness of our daily lives better and offer more support and be better advocates.
I’d like to believe that everyone is doing their best, but ignoring problems is not doing our best.
I work in a facility where it feels like most leadership especially senior leadership are ghosts. We are short-staffed, we reuse…
Daily changes, modifications inconsistent with Best Practices
In the beginning, the daunting daily changes were maddening as administrators would ask a group of nurses to research best practices.
We did well at keeping up but realized the short cuts were being instituted.
The disregard for our safety felt demeaning and disrespectful and the standard answer became, “it’s not us, it’s COVID.”
Safe practices with floats being given “preceptorship training” with no didactic. When we explained the safety of our patients was at risk, they gave NOEP Modules to them.
A group of…
Mr Sam Spatula RN
would like every one to realize that you as a nurse do not necessarily have to deal with active virus patients my job is to make sure that the donors we get are adequate to donate we do not screen for covid 19 we rely on the donor to answer questions truthfully so at any given time myself or my coworkers could be exposed and not know it there for we are at risk just as any nurse working in the hospital setting at least you know who you're at taking care of and you know who has the virus…
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I am scared. If I cannot get PPE I will still have to do my job. I feel nurses have been seen as disposable. A fireman would not be sent into a fire without his equipment. We are human beings, not machines. Employers need to start putting safety first and not just patient safety. Employees need to be protected. I feel that it has always been ok with employers to not provide adequate PPE and to turn a blind eye because it costs money. This has to change. Slips, trips, and falls and back injuries are not the only things…
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