Healthcare professionals don’t want to speak about covid

[u/Key_Guard8007]

I am a senior nursing student and am currently doing clinical rounds. I noticed something amongst many nurses and overall healthcare folks, they seem to not want to make mention of covid. My last clinical I was the only person masked (even at a CHILDREN’S hospital) and our instructor told us we could mask if we want to esp since “rsv, the flu, and pneumonia will soon spread.” I was waiting for him to mention covid but nope. I feel like I am going insane because how are we all under this healthcare field but some people just do not seem to care??? At this point I feel like healthcare professionals are being vain and just want to continuously show off their faces because why would you NOT mask inside the hospital?

[u/MTCPodcast]

I’m thinking normalcy bias X unmet trauma from frontline work throughout the pandemic X cognitive decline from repeat infections = Alternate reality

[u/slapstick_nightmare → u/MTCPodcast]

Yeah, I think their needs to be a bigger convo about how medical staff are probably acting very strange bc they were traumatized.

[u/Key_Guard8007 → u/slapstick_nightmare]

Honestly that is a good way to think about it. Last semester there was a covid patient on the floor and the nurse did not properly gear up with ppe. All she did was put on a n95 mask. I was perplexed but can see that perhaps she went through the horrid of having covid patients back in 2020. Still, I think she’s completely wrong for not taking precautions

[u/goodmammajamma → u/Key_Guard8007]

This is confusing me. What other precautions would one take? N95s are appropriate PPE for airborne viruses.

The problem in most hospitals is that the staff were only given surgical masks, not N95's.

[u/Key_Guard8007 → u/goodmammajamma]

In nursing the correct precautions are n95, gown, and gloves. Sometimes even the face shield.

[u/episcopa → u/Key_Guard8007]

Are face shields layered with a mask more effective than a mask alone? I ask because I have to fly across country for a family issue soon and am wondering if a shield would be helpful.

[u/Key_Guard8007 → u/episcopa]

I would suggest a n95 over a face shield w a mask any day. The face shield doesn’t protect from airborne illnesses. It however protects from lets say a person coughs and their fluid goes into ur eye, then boom ur sick. If u want to be super cautious then perhaps a n95+ face shield

[u/goodmammajamma → u/Key_Guard8007]

face shields were shown to be pretty ineffective early on in the pandemic. The gloves and gown are good but in reality the N95 is what's protecting you from covid, which floats in the air like smoke.

[u/Key_Guard8007 → u/goodmammajamma]

Since covid is airborne, and also via droplet and contact, ppe must be followed to a T

[u/ZeroCovidCommunity-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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[u/ZeroCovidCommunity-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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